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10-letter words containing p, h, i, l, s

  • ship canal — a canal navigable by ships.
  • shiplapped — of, related to, or resembling shiplap
  • shopaholic — a frequent shopper, especially one who is unable to control his or her spending.
  • shoplifter — a person who steals goods from the shelves or displays of a retail store while posing as a customer.
  • shopsoiled — worn, faded, tarnished, etc, from being displayed in a shop or store
  • shrimplike — any of several small, long-tailed, chiefly marine crustaceans of the decapod suborder Natania, certain species of which are used as food.
  • slash pine — a pine, Pinus elliotii, found in slashes and swamps in the southeastern U.S., yielding a hard, durable wood.
  • slave ship — a ship for transporting slaves from their native homes to places of bondage.
  • slavophile — a person who greatly admires the Slavs and Slavic ways.
  • sleep with — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
  • sleepshirt — a shirtlike garment, usually knee-length or shorter, worn for sleeping.
  • slow pitch — a variety of softball in which the ball is pitched with an underhand motion at moderate speed in an arc that rises at least six feet above the ground
  • slow-pitch — a type of softball with ten players per side and in which each pitch must travel in an arc from three to ten feet high.
  • slush pile — a collection of unsolicited manuscripts submitted to a publisher.
  • snappishly — in a sharp or irritable manner
  • solar ship — (in ancient Egypt) a boat placed in or near the tomb of a king to transport him to the sun.
  • sparkishly — in a sparkish manner
  • sphalerite — a very common mineral, zinc sulfide, ZnS, usually containing some iron and a little cadmium, occurring in yellow, brown, or black crystals or cleavable masses with resinous luster: the principal ore of zinc and cadmium; blackjack.
  • sphenoidal — relating to the sphenoid bone
  • spherelike — relating to or resembling spheres
  • spheroidal — pertaining to a spheroid or spheroids.
  • spherulite — a rounded aggregate of radiating crystals found in obsidian and other glassy igneous rocks.
  • sphinxlike — like the Sphinx; enigmatic or inscrutable
  • spike heel — a very high heel that tapers to a narrow base, used on women's shoes.
  • splanchnic — of or relating to the viscera or entrails; visceral.
  • sprightful — sprightly.
  • springhalt — stringhalt.
  • staphyline — having a form resembling a bunch of grapes
  • striplight — a row of lamps, provided with a reflector for floodlighting the stage, used as border lights, footlights, backing lights, etc.
  • strophiole — a small growth on some plants' seeds
  • sulphatise — to convert into a sulfate, as by the roasting of ores.
  • sulphonium — the hypothetical univalent radical -SH3
  • sulphoxide — any compound containing a sulphinyl group (SO) and a hydrocarbon radical
  • sulphurise — to combine, treat, or impregnate with sulfur.
  • sulphurize — to combine or treat with sulphur or a sulphur compound
  • superhelix — a coil formed by intertwined helical DNA or by protein chains.
  • superlight — extremely light
  • sylphidine — resembling a sylph
  • symphilism — a type of sociable symbiosis by which an insect is a nourished guest of an ant or termite colony
  • symphilous — of or relating to symphilism
  • symphysial — of, relating to, or noting a symphysis.
  • syphilitic — pertaining to, noting, or affected with syphilis.
  • theophilus — a walled plain in the 4th quadrant of the face of the moon: about 65 miles (105 km) in diameter.
  • trollopish — like or typical of a trollop
  • trophesial — involving or relating to trophesy
  • unpolished — made smooth and glossy: a figurine of polished mahogany.
  • upflashing — flashing or flaring up
  • westphalia — a former province in NW Germany, now a part of North Rhine-Westphalia: treaty ending the Thirty Years' War 1648.
  • whip-stall — a stall during a vertical climb in which the nose of the airplane falls forward and downward in a whiplike movement.
  • whiplashes — Plural form of whiplash.
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