10-letter words containing p, h, y, s
- saprophyte — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- scampishly — in a scampish manner
- scatophagy — the act of eating dung or excrement
- scyphiform — shaped like a cup or goblet.
- scyphozoan — any coelenterate of the class Scyphozoa, comprising the true marine jellyfishes.
- serigraphy — a print made by the silkscreen process.
- shaggy cap — an edible inky-cap mushroom, Coprinus comatus, having an elongated, shaggy pileus.
- sharp-eyed — having keen sight or perception.
- sheepberry — a North American shrub or small tree, Viburnum lentago, of the honeysuckle family, having flat-topped clusters of small white flowers and edible, berrylike black drupes.
- sheepishly — embarrassed or bashful, as by having done something wrong or foolish.
- 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.
- slap happy — severely befuddled; punch-drunk: a slaphappy boxer.
- slap-happy — severely befuddled; punch-drunk: a slaphappy boxer.
- sleepyhead — a sleepy person.
- snappishly — in a sharp or irritable manner
- sociopathy — a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
- sonography — the medical diagnostic imaging technique used to see internal organs, muscles, etc
- sophrosyne — moderation; discretion; prudence.
- sparkishly — in a sparkish manner
- speech day — In some British schools, speech day is a day, usually at the end of the school year, when prizes are presented to pupils and speeches are made by guest speakers and the head teacher.
- sphericity — a spherical state or form.
- spherocyte — an abnormal blood cell
- sporophyll — a modified leaf that bears sporangia.
- sporophyte — the form of a plant in the alternation of generations that produces asexual spores.
- spreaghery — the activity or crime of raiding cattle
- spycatcher — a person who works in counterintelligence to detect enemy espionage activities
- staphyline — having a form resembling a bunch of grapes
- staphyloma — a condition in which the sclera or cornea of the eye projects outwards due to inflammation
- strathspey — a slow Scottish dance in quadruple meter.
- stylograph — a fountain pen in which the writing point is a fine, hollow tube instead of a nib.
- stylophone — a type of battery-powered electronic instrument played with a steel-tipped penlike stylus
- superheavy — Chemistry, Physics. pertaining to any of a series of elements having an atomic number greater than 103.
- suretyship — the relationship between the surety, the principal debtor, and the creditor.
- sycophancy — self-seeking or servile flattery.
- sylphidine — resembling a sylph
- sympathies — harmony of or agreement in feeling, as between persons or on the part of one person with respect to another.
- sympathise — to be in sympathy or agreement of feeling; share in a feeling (often followed by with).
- sympathize — to be in sympathy or agreement of feeling; share in a feeling (often followed by with).
- 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
- symphonion — a 19th-century mechanical music player
- symphonist — a composer who writes symphonies.
- symphonize — to play or sound together harmoniously.
- symphysial — of, relating to, or noting a symphysis.
- 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.
- syphilitic — pertaining to, noting, or affected with syphilis.
- typhaceous — belonging to the family of flowering plants Typhaceae
- typhlosole — (in annelids and many bivalve mollusks) an infolding along the inner wall of the intestine.
- unsympathy — lack of sympathy