10-letter words containing r, h, a, e, t, o
- shower tea — kitchen tea.
- sloth bear — a coarse-haired, long-snouted bear, Ursus ursinus, of India and Indochina: now rare.
- smart home — a dwelling equipped with systems and appliances that can be operated remotely using a computer or mobile phone
- smartphone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
- solar-heat — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
- soothsayer — a person who professes to foretell events.
- stadholder — the chief magistrate of the former republic of the United Provinces of the Netherlands.
- stenograph — any of various keyboard instruments, somewhat resembling a typewriter, used for writing in shorthand, as by means of phonetic or arbitrary symbols.
- stonebrash — a type of subsoil consisting of small or broken stones or rock
- tachometer — any of various instruments for measuring or indicating velocity or speed, as of a machine, a river, or the blood.
- tachometry — any of various instruments for measuring or indicating velocity or speed, as of a machine, a river, or the blood.
- technocrat — a proponent, adherent, or supporter of technocracy.
- technofear — fear of using technological devices, such as computers; technophobia
- tereshkova — Valentina Vladimirovna [vuh-lyin-tyee-nuh vluh-dyi-myee-ruh v-nuh] /və lyɪnˈtyi nə vlə dyɪˈmyi rəv nə/ (Show IPA), born 1937, Soviet cosmonaut: first woman in space 1963.
- terrachlor — pentachloronitrobenzene.
- tetrachord — a diatonic series of four tones, the first and last separated by a perfect fourth.
- tetrathlon — a contest featuring four sporting disciplines
- the azores — three groups of volcanic islands in the N Atlantic, since 1976 an autonomous region of Portugal. Capital: Ponta Delgada (on São Miguel). Pop: 241 762 (2001). Area: 2335 sq km (901 sq miles)
- the boards — the acting profession; the stage
- the dragon — the constellation Draco
- the majors — the major leagues
- the moirai — the Greek goddesses of fate
- theocratic — a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, the God's or deity's laws being interpreted by the ecclesiastical authorities.
- thereabout — about or near that place or time: last June or thereabout.
- thereamong — amid or amongst
- thermogram — a graphic or visual record produced by thermography.
- thermostat — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
- 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.
- thorianite — a rare mineral, mainly thoria, ThO 2 , but also containing uranium, cerium, and other rare-earth metals, occurring in small, black, cubic crystals: notable for its radioactivity and used as a minor source of thorium.
- threadworm — any of various nematode worms, especially a pinworm.
- tony hoare — Anthony Hoare
- top-hamper — the light upper sails and their gear and spars, sometimes used to refer to all spars and gear above the deck.
- touchpaper — paper saturated with potassium nitrate to make it burn slowly, used for igniting explosives and fireworks.
- tow-haired — having blond and sometimes tousled hair
- tracheolar — of or relating to the tracheole
- track shoe — a light, heelless, usually leather shoe having either steel spikes for use outdoors on a cinder or dirt track, or a rubber sole for use indoors on a board floor.
- trade show — show (def 22).
- trap house — a shelter from which the clay pigeons are released in trapshooting.
- trochanter — Anatomy. either of two knobs at the top of the femur, the greater on the outside and the lesser on the inside, serving for the attachment of muscles between the thigh and pelvis.
- trophesial — involving or relating to trophesy
- two-hander — a play for two actors
- under oath — having sworn to tell the truth
- vectograph — a technology that uses special glasses to see a photographic image between two plastic sheets as three dimensional
- waiterhood — the state of being a waiter
- watch over — to be alertly on the lookout, look attentively, or observe, as to see what comes, is done, or happens: to watch while an experiment is performed.
- watchtower — a tower on which a sentinel keeps watch.
- water hole — a depression in the surface of the ground, containing water.
- waterhouse — Alfred. 1830–1905, British architect; a leader of the Gothic Revival. His buildings include Manchester Town Hall (1868) and the Natural History Museum, London (1881)
- whatsoever — At all (used for emphasis).