10-letter words containing p, h, i, s
- rhapsodist — a person who rhapsodizes.
- rhapsodize — to talk with extravagant enthusiasm.
- rhinoscope — a special instrument used to examine the nasal passages
- rhinoscopy — examination of the nasal passages, esp with a rhinoscope
- rose aphid — a dark green aphid, Macrosiphum rosae, that feeds on roses and related plants.
- rough spin — hard or unfair treatment
- russophile — a person who is friendly to, admires, or prefers Russia or Russian customs, institutions, etc.
- sachemship — the office of a sachem
- sapphirine — consisting of sapphire; like sapphire, especially in color.
- sarcophagi — a stone coffin, especially one bearing sculpture, inscriptions, etc., often displayed as a monument.
- sarcophile — a flesh-eating animal, especially the Tasmanian devil.
- scampishly — in a scampish manner
- schipperke — one of a Belgian breed of small dogs having erect ears and a thick, black coat, originally used as a watchdog on boats in the Netherlands and Belgium.
- schizocarp — a dry, dehiscent fruit that at maturity splits into two or more one-seeded carpels.
- schtupping — to have sexual intercourse with.
- scyphiform — shaped like a cup or goblet.
- seamanship — knowledge and skill pertaining to the operation, navigation, management, safety, and maintenance of a ship.
- semaphoric — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
- semisphere — shaped like half a sphere; hemispheric.
- serigraphy — a print made by the silkscreen process.
- sextonship — the office of a sexton
- shadow pin — a vertical pin set in an azimuth instrument or at the center of a compass card, indicating by the direction of its shadow the azimuth of the sun.
- shaganappi — thongs, straps, or lacings made of rawhide.
- shahaptian — Sahaptian
- shankpiece — a piece of metal or fiber for giving form to the shank of a shoe.
- sharpening — the act of making the edge of something very thin or of making its end pointed
- sheep tick — a wingless, bloodsucking, dipterous insect, Melophagus ovinus, that is parasitic on sheep.
- sheepishly — embarrassed or bashful, as by having done something wrong or foolish.
- sheet pile — one of a number of piles, usually flat, driven side by side to retain earth, etc., or to prevent seepage into an excavation.
- shell pink — delicate whitish to yellow pink.
- ship canal — a canal navigable by ships.
- ship money — a tax levied to finance the fitting out of warships: abolished 1640
- ship's boy — a male attendant, as a cabin boy, steward, etc., employed to wait on a ship's passengers or officers.
- ship-bread — hardtack.
- shipentine — a four-masted bark.
- shipfitter — a person who forms plates, shapes, etc., of ship according to plans, patterns, or molds.
- shiplapped — of, related to, or resembling shiplap
- shipmaster — a person who commands a ship; master; captain.
- shipwright — a person who builds and launches wooden vessels or does carpentry work in connection with the building and launching of steel or iron vessels.
- 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.
- shopaholic — a frequent shopper, especially one who is unable to control his or her spending.
- 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.
- shopsoiled — worn, faded, tarnished, etc, from being displayed in a shop or store
- shopwindow — a window used for display of merchandise.
- shrimp net — a net for catching shrimps
- shrimpfish — any of several fishes of the family Centriscidae, inhabiting shallow waters from eastern Africa to Hawaii, having a compressed body covered with transparent plates.
- shrimplike — any of several small, long-tailed, chiefly marine crustaceans of the decapod suborder Natania, certain species of which are used as food.
- shrinkpack — flexible plastic used for shrink-wrapping goods
- shropshire — a former county in W England, now part of Salop.