10-letter words containing o, r, t, h, s, i
- rifle shot — sound of shotgun fire
- ring shout — a group dance of West African origin introduced into parts of the southern U.S. by black revivalists, performed by shuffling counterclockwise in a circle while answering shouts of a preacher with corresponding shouts, and held to be, in its vigorous antiphonal patterns, a source in the development of jazz.
- ring-shout — a group dance of West African origin introduced into parts of the southern U.S. by black revivalists, performed by shuffling counterclockwise in a circle while answering shouts of a preacher with corresponding shouts, and held to be, in its vigorous antiphonal patterns, a source in the development of jazz.
- rothschild — Lionel Nathan, Baron de ("Lord Natty") 1809–79, English banker: first Jewish member of Parliament (son of Nathan Meyer Rothschild).
- ruthenious — containing bivalent ruthenium.
- sailor hat — a hat with a flat round crown and fairly broad brim that is rolled upwards
- shirtfront — front of a shirt
- shoestring — a shoelace.
- shop right — the right of an employer to use an employee's invention without compensating the employee for the use, in cases where the invention was made at the place of and during the hours of employment.
- shopfitter — a worker who makes and installs fittings for commercial premises
- shoplifter — a person who steals goods from the shelves or displays of a retail store while posing as a customer.
- short bill — a bill of exchange that is payable at sight, on demand, or within less than ten days
- short iron — a club, as a pitcher, pitching niblick, or niblick, with a short shaft and an iron head the face of which has great slope, for hitting approach shots.
- short line — a bus or rail route covering only a limited distance.
- short loin — the front part of a loin of beef, from the ribs to the sirloin
- short ribs — the rib ends of beef from the forequarter, next to the plate
- short time — a period or schedule during which the number of working hours is reduced: The recession has put most of the manufacturing plants on short time.
- short-laid — hard-laid.
- short-life — not designed to last
- short-list — to put on a short list.
- shortening — butter, lard, or other fat, used to make pastry, bread, etc., short.
- show trial — (especially in a totalitarian state) the public trial of a political offender conducted chiefly for propagandistic purposes, as to suppress further dissent against the government by making an example of the accused.
- shrovetide — the three days before Ash Wednesday, once a time of confession and absolution.
- sisterhood — the state of being a sister.
- sixth form — secondary school: final 2 years
- smothering — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
- spirochete — any of various spiral-shaped motile bacteria of the family Spirochaetaceae, certain species, as Treponema, Leptospira, and Borrelia, being pathogenic to humans and other animals, and other species being free-living, saprophytic, or parasitic.
- sport fish — a type of fish that is prized for the sport it gives the angler in its capture rather than for its value as food.
- sticharion — a white tunic of silk or linen, corresponding to the alb, worn by deacons, priests, and bishops.
- stitchwork — embroidery or needlework.
- stitchwort — any of several plants belonging to the genus Stellaria, of the pink family, having white flowers.
- stoutherie — theft
- stouthrief — theft using force or violence
- stracchino — a soft cheese from North Italy
- strip show — a form of entertainment in which one or more people take off their clothes in a titillating and erotic manner, often to music
- strophiole — a small growth on some plants' seeds
- struthious — resembling or related to the ostriches or other ratite birds.
- switcheroo — an unexpected or sudden change or reversal in attitude, character, position, action, etc.
- switchover — the act or process of changing from one power source, system, etc., to another.
- the minors — the minor leagues, esp. in baseball
- theocritus — flourished c270 b.c, Greek poet.
- theoretics — the theoretical or speculative part of a science or subject.
- thermistor — a resistor whose action depends upon changes of its resistance material with changes in temperature.
- thermotics — the scientific study of heat
- thesprotia — an ancient coastal district in SW Epirus.
- thimerosal — a cream-colored, crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 9 H 9 HgNaO 2 S, used chiefly as an antiseptic.
- thriftshop — a retail store that sells secondhand goods at reduced prices.
- thrombosis — intravascular coagulation of the blood in any part of the circulatory system, as in the heart, arteries, veins, or capillaries.
- timocharis — a crater in the second quadrant of the face of the moon: about 25 miles (40 km) in diameter.
- tovarishch — comrade (used as a term of address in the Soviet Union).