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10-letter words containing o, n, h, e, r

  • rhinestone — an artificial gem of paste, often cut to resemble a diamond.
  • rhinoceros — any of several large, thick-skinned, perissodactyl mammals of the family Rhinocerotidae, of Africa and India, having one or two upright horns on the snout: all rhinoceroses are endangered.
  • rhinorrhea — an excessive discharge of mucus from the nose.
  • rhinoscope — a special instrument used to examine the nasal passages
  • rhinotheca — the covering of the upper part of the beak in birds
  • rhizogenic — producing roots, as certain cells.
  • rhizoplane — the part of the root of a plant that is near the soil surface
  • rhodophane — the red colour found in the inner cones of the retina in animals
  • rhone wine — any of numerous varieties of wine produced in the Rhone River valley, between Lyons and the Mediterranean.
  • richthofen — Baron Manfred von [mahn-freyt fuh n] /ˈmɑn freɪt fən/ (Show IPA), ("Red Baron"or"Red Knight") 1892–1918, German aviator.
  • rough-hewn — to hew (timber, stone, etc.) roughly or without smoothing or finishing.
  • roundheels — a prostitute.
  • roundhouse — a building for the servicing and repair of locomotives, built around a turntable in the form of some part of a circle.
  • ruthenious — containing bivalent ruthenium.
  • scherzando — (a musical direction) playful; sportive.
  • schoenberg — Arnold (ˈarnɔlt). 1874–1951, Austrian composer and musical theorist, in the US after 1933. The harmonic idiom of such early works as the string sextet Verklärte Nacht (1899) gave way to his development of atonality, as in the song cycle Pierrot Lunaire (1912), and later of the twelve-tone technique. He wrote many choral, orchestral, and chamber works and the unfinished opera Moses and Aaron
  • schongauer — Martin [mahr-tn;; German mahr-teen] /ˈmɑr tn;; German ˈmɑr tin/ (Show IPA), c1430–91, German engraver and painter.
  • screenshot — Also called screen capture. a copy or image of what is seen on a computer screen at a given time: Save the screenshot as a graphics file.
  • scruncheon — (in Newfoundland) a small crisp piece of fried pork fat
  • scunthorpe — a town in E England, in North Lincolnshire unitary authority, Lincolnshire: developed rapidly after the discovery of local iron ore in the late 19th century; iron and steel industries have declined. Pop: 72 660 (2001)
  • sea anchor — any of various devices, as a drogue, that have great resistance to being pulled through the water and are dropped forward of a vessel at the end of a cable to hold the bow into the wind or sea during a storm.
  • send forth — to be a source of; cause to appear; give out or forth; produce, emit, utter, etc.
  • shear zone — Geology. a zone of closely spaced, approximately parallel faults or dispersed displacements.
  • 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.
  • shotgunner — a person who is skilled with a shotgun
  • 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
  • smartphone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
  • smothering — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
  • sophrosyne — moderation; discretion; prudence.
  • southerner — a native or inhabitant of the south.
  • southernly — southerly.
  • sphenogram — a cuneiform character.
  • 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
  • stonebrash — a type of subsoil consisting of small or broken stones or rock
  • stonehorse — a stallion or uncastrated male horse
  • superphone — a telephone with a high-speed processor that can perform many of the functions of a computer
  • tchernosem — chernozem.
  • technocrat — a proponent, adherent, or supporter of technocracy.
  • technofear — fear of using technological devices, such as computers; technophobia
  • tenor horn — a musical brass wind instrument with valves; the tenor member of the cornet family.
  • tenterhook — one of the hooks or bent nails that hold cloth stretched on a tenter.
  • tetrathlon — a contest featuring four sporting disciplines
  • the corner — an area in central Australia, at the junction of the borders of Queensland and South Australia
  • the dragon — the constellation Draco
  • the minors — the minor leagues, esp. in baseball
  • the orient — the Orient, the countries of Asia, especially East Asia. (formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
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