10-letter words containing o, n, e, s, h
- shoe-shine — an act or instance of cleaning and polishing a pair of shoes.
- shoestring — a shoelace.
- shorefront — land along a shore.
- short line — a bus or rail route covering only a limited distance.
- shortening — butter, lard, or other fat, used to make pastry, bread, etc., short.
- shoshonean — (in some, especially earlier, classifications) a grouping of four branches of the Uto-Aztecan language family including Numic, Hopi, and several languages of southern California.
- shot angle — the angle from which a shot is taken
- shot noise — random fluctuations in the emission of electrons from a hot cathode, causing a hissing or sputtering sound (shot noise) in an audio amplifier and causing snow on a television screen.
- shotgunner — a person who is skilled with a shotgun
- shovelnose — any of various animals with a shovellike snout or head, as a guitarfish, Rhinobatos productus, of California.
- silverhorn — any of various usually darkish caddis flies of the family Leptoceridae, characterized by very long pale antennae. The larvae are a favourite food of trout
- singlehood — the status of being unmarried.
- smartphone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
- smoothness — free from projections or unevenness of surface; not rough: smooth wood; a smooth road.
- smothering — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
- snakemouth — rose pogonia.
- snow-white — white as snow.
- somethings — Informal. a person or thing of some value or consequence: He is really something! This writer has something to say and she says it well.
- somewhence — from somewhere
- song sheet — A song sheet is a piece of paper with the words to one or more songs printed on it. Song sheets are given to groups of people at occasions when they are expected to sing together.
- sophoclean — 495?–406? b.c, Greek dramatist.
- sophrosyne — moderation; discretion; prudence.
- sound head — a mechanism through which film passes in a projector for conversion of the soundtrack into audio-frequency signals that can be amplified and reproduced.
- 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.
- sousaphone — a form of bass tuba, similar to the helicon, used in brass bands.
- south bend — a city in N Indiana.
- south node — the descending node of the moon.
- southerner — a native or inhabitant of the south.
- southernly — southerly.
- sphenodont — a member of the Sphenodont group of lizards
- sphenogram — a cuneiform character.
- sphenoidal — relating to the sphenoid bone
- sphenopsid — equisetoid.
- stenograph — any of various keyboard instruments, somewhat resembling a typewriter, used for writing in shorthand, as by means of phonetic or arbitrary symbols.
- stenotherm — an organism that is only able to live within a narrow parameter of temperatures
- stephenson — George, 1781–1848, English inventor and engineer.
- stonebrash — a type of subsoil consisting of small or broken stones or rock
- stonehenge — a prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England, consisting of a large circle of megaliths surrounding a smaller circle and four massive trilithons; dating to late Neolithic and early Bronze Age times (c1700–1200 b.c.) and believed to have been connected with a sun cult or used for astronomical observations.
- stonehorse — a stallion or uncastrated male horse
- 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
- superphone — a telephone with a high-speed processor that can perform many of the functions of a computer
- symphonize — to play or sound together harmoniously.
- 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.
- synecdoche — a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.
- syon house — a mansion near Brentford in London: originally a monastery, rebuilt in the 16th century, altered by Inigo Jones in the 17th century, and by Robert Adam in the 18th century; seat of the Dukes of Northumberland; gardens laid out by Capability Brown
- tchernosem — chernozem.
- the dozens — a form of verbal play in which the participants exchange witty, ribald taunts and insults, often specif. about each other's mother
- the hounds — a pack of foxhounds, etc
- the minors — the minor leagues, esp. in baseball