10-letter words containing r, e, t, h, i
- shattering — to break (something) into pieces, as by a blow.
- shipfitter — a person who forms plates, shapes, etc., of ship according to plans, patterns, or molds.
- shipmaster — a person who commands a ship; master; captain.
- shirtdress — shirtwaist (def 2).
- shirtmaker — a person who makes shirts.
- shitkicker — an unsophisticated farmer, cowboy, or other rural person; country person.
- shoestring — a shoelace.
- 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 line — a bus or rail route covering only a limited distance.
- 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-life — not designed to last
- shortening — butter, lard, or other fat, used to make pastry, bread, etc., short.
- shrievalty — the office, term, or jurisdiction of a sheriff.
- shrimp net — a net for catching shrimps
- shrovetide — the three days before Ash Wednesday, once a time of confession and absolution.
- shuttering — a solid or louvered movable cover for a window.
- sight-read — Someone who can sight-read can play or sing music from a printed sheet the first time they see it, without practising it beforehand.
- sisterhood — the state of being a sister.
- sixth year — (in Scotland) the most senior class in a secondary school to which pupils, usually above the legal leaving age, may proceed to take sixth-year studies, retake or take additional Highers, etc
- slathering — to spread or apply thickly: to slather butter on toast.
- sleepshirt — a shirtlike garment, usually knee-length or shorter, worn for sleeping.
- slithering — to slide down or along a surface, especially unsteadily, from side to side, or with some friction or noise: The box slithered down the chute.
- smithereen — to break into small fragments
- smothering — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
- 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.
- sphericity — a spherical state or form.
- spherulite — a rounded aggregate of radiating crystals found in obsidian and other glassy igneous rocks.
- 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.
- st. helier — a British island in the English Channel: the largest of the Channel Islands. 44 sq. mi. (116 sq. km). Capital: St. Helier.
- starfished — lying with arms and legs outstretched; spread-eagled
- stealthier — done, characterized, or acting by stealth; furtive: stealthy footsteps.
- stoutherie — theft
- stouthrief — theft using force or violence
- straighten — make straight
- straighter — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- stretching — the activity of straightening the arms and legs and tightening the muscles
- strophiole — a small growth on some plants' seeds
- strychnine — Pharmacology. a colorless, crystalline poison, C 2 1 H 2 2 N 2 O 2 , obtained chiefly by extraction from the seeds of nux vomica, formerly used as a central nervous system stimulant.
- superbitch — an exceptionally spiteful woman, a very bitchy person
- superlight — extremely light
- superthick — extremely thick
- supertight — extremely tight
- sure thing — something that is or is supposed to be a certain success, as a bet or a business venture: He thinks that real estate is a sure thing.
- suretyship — the relationship between the surety, the principal debtor, and the creditor.
- sweatshirt — a loose, long-sleeved, collarless pullover of soft, absorbent fabric, as cotton jersey, with close-fitting or elastic cuffs and sometimes a drawstring at the waist, commonly worn during athletic activity for warmth or to induce sweating.
- switcheroo — an unexpected or sudden change or reversal in attitude, character, position, action, etc.
- switchgear — switching equipment used in an electric power station.
- switchover — the act or process of changing from one power source, system, etc., to another.
- tcherepnin — Alexander (Aleksandr Nikolaevich) 1899–1977, Russian pianist and composer, in the U.S.