10-letter words containing n, s, h, e, l
- singlehood — the status of being unmarried.
- sinhailien — Xinhailian.
- slash pine — a pine, Pinus elliotii, found in slashes and swamps in the southeastern U.S., yielding a hard, durable wood.
- slathering — to spread or apply thickly: to slather butter on toast.
- sleevehand — a sleeve's cuff or wristband
- slithering — to slide down or along a surface, especially unsteadily, from side to side, or with some friction or noise: The box slithered down the chute.
- sneakishly — in a stealthy or underhanded manner
- sophoclean — 495?–406? b.c, Greek dramatist.
- sound hole — an opening in the soundboard of a musical stringed instrument, as a violin or lute, for increasing the soundboard's capacity for vibration.
- southernly — southerly.
- sphenoidal — relating to the sphenoid bone
- sphinxlike — like the Sphinx; enigmatic or inscrutable
- squelching — to strike or press with crushing force; crush down; squash.
- st. helena — Saint, c247–c330, mother of Constantine I.
- st. helens — a city in Merseyside, in NW England, near Liverpool.
- stanchless — not to be stanched.
- staphyline — having a form resembling a bunch of grapes
- sternwheel — a paddle wheel at the stern of a vessel.
- stylophone — a type of battery-powered electronic instrument played with a steel-tipped penlike stylus
- sulphonate — a salt or ester of any sulphonic acid containing the ion RSO2O– or the group RSO2O–, R being an organic group
- sun helmet — a rigid hat worn in tropical climates, mainly in the past
- sun-shield — something put over the windscreen of a car to keep the sun out
- sutherland — Earl Wilbur, Jr. 1915–74, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1971.
- sylphidine — resembling a sylph
- synaloepha — the blending of two successive vowels into one, especially the coalescence of a vowel at the end of one word with a vowel at the beginning of the next.
- the solent — a strait of the English Channel between the coast of Hampshire, on the English mainland, and the Isle of Wight. Width: up to 6 km (4 miles)
- thessalian — a region in E Greece: a former division of ancient Greece. 5208 sq. mi. (14,490 sq. km).
- thinsulate — a type of thermal insulation made of synthetic fibers, used esp. as a lining in clothing
- un-english — not English; not characteristic of the English.
- unchastely — in an unchaste manner
- unchiseled — cut, shaped, etc., with a chisel: chiseled stone.
- unhouseled — not having received the Eucharist.
- unpolished — made smooth and glossy: a figurine of polished mahogany.
- unrelished — not relished or enjoyed
- unschooled — not schooled, taught, or trained: Though unschooled, he had a grasp of the subject.
- unshakable — to move or sway with short, quick, irregular vibratory movements.
- unshakenly — in an unshaken manner
- unsharable — the full or proper portion or part allotted or belonging to or contributed or owed by an individual or group.
- unshielded — not shielded
- unshingled — not shingled
- unstealthy — done, characterized, or acting by stealth; furtive: stealthy footsteps.
- unwashable — capable of being washed without shrinking, fading, or the like.
- well-shown — a past participle of show.
- welsh pony — one of a breed of small, sturdy ponies raised originally in Wales.
- welshwoman — a woman who is a native or inhabitant of Wales.
- whalebones — Plural form of whalebone.
- wiesenthal — Simon, 1908–2005, Austrian Holocaust survivor and hunter of Nazi war criminals.
- wind shelf — smoke shelf.
- windshield — a shield of glass, in one or more sections, projecting above and across the dashboard of an automobile.
- wolfensohn — James D., known as Jim. born 1933, US businessman and international official, born in Australia; president of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the World Bank) (1995–2005); honorary knighthood (1995)