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10-letter words containing r, h, g

  • ring shout — a group dance of West African origin introduced into parts of the southern U.S. by black revivalists, performed by shuffling counterclockwise in a circle while answering shouts of a preacher with corresponding shouts, and held to be, in its vigorous antiphonal patterns, a source in the development of jazz.
  • ring-shout — a group dance of West African origin introduced into parts of the southern U.S. by black revivalists, performed by shuffling counterclockwise in a circle while answering shouts of a preacher with corresponding shouts, and held to be, in its vigorous antiphonal patterns, a source in the development of jazz.
  • rockingham — Second Marquis of, Charles Watson-Wentworth.
  • rodfishing — angling or fishing using a fishing rod
  • roof light — a window built into a roof to admit light and ventilation
  • rough copy — writing: early draft
  • rough fish — any fish that is not valued as a sport fish or considered a significant source of food by sport fishers.
  • rough spin — hard or unfair treatment
  • rough work — a preliminary work in preparation for a sketch, report, piece of work, etc
  • rough-hewn — to hew (timber, stone, etc.) roughly or without smoothing or finishing.
  • rough-sawn — (of wood) used as originally cut, without smoothing or sanding: shingles of rough-sawn cedar.
  • roughhouse — rough, disorderly playing, especially indoors.
  • roughrider — a person who breaks horses to the saddle.
  • rugby head — a male follower of rugby culture
  • rush light — a candle made from a dried, partly peeled rush that has been dipped in grease.
  • sag harbor — a resort town on E Long Island in SE New York.
  • sagamihara — a city on E central Honshu, in Japan, SW of Tokyo.
  • sarcophagi — a stone coffin, especially one bearing sculpture, inscriptions, etc., often displayed as a monument.
  • satyagraha — the policy of nonviolent resistance adopted by Mahatma Gandhi from about 1919 to oppose British rule in India
  • satyagrahi — an exponent of nonviolent resistance, esp as a form of political protest
  • schaumburg — a city in NE Illinois.
  • schoenberg — Arnold (ˈarnɔlt). 1874–1951, Austrian composer and musical theorist, in the US after 1933. The harmonic idiom of such early works as the string sextet Verklärte Nacht (1899) gave way to his development of atonality, as in the song cycle Pierrot Lunaire (1912), and later of the twelve-tone technique. He wrote many choral, orchestral, and chamber works and the unfinished opera Moses and Aaron
  • schongauer — Martin [mahr-tn;; German mahr-teen] /ˈmɑr tn;; German ˈmɑr tin/ (Show IPA), c1430–91, German engraver and painter.
  • schoolgirl — a girl attending school.
  • scratching — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
  • screeching — causing or uttering screeches: screeching bats.
  • search dog — a dog trained to assist rescue workers in finding people buried under rubble by detection by smell
  • serigraphy — a print made by the silkscreen process.
  • shagreened — made, covered with, or resembling shagreen
  • shanghaier — a person who shanghais
  • shangri la — an imaginary paradise on earth, especially a remote and exotic utopia.
  • shangri-la — an imaginary paradise on earth, especially a remote and exotic utopia.
  • sharawadgi — a form of Chinese landscape architecture known for its irregular and asymmetrical plantings
  • sharenting — the habitual use of social media to share news, images, etc of one’s children
  • sharpening — the act of making the edge of something very thin or of making its end pointed
  • sharpsburg — a town in NW Maryland: nearby is the site of the Civil War battle of Antietam 1862.
  • shattering — to break (something) into pieces, as by a blow.
  • shear legs — shear (def 16).
  • shimmering — a quivering or vibrating motion or image as produced by reflecting faint light or heat waves.
  • shin guard — a protective covering, usually of leather or plastic and often padded, for the shins and sometimes the knees, worn chiefly by catchers in baseball and goalkeepers in ice hockey.
  • 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.
  • shoestring — a shoelace.
  • 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.
  • short game — the aspect of golf considered in relation to the ability of a player to hit medium or short shots, as chip shots, pitch shots, and putts, with accuracy. Compare long game (def 1).
  • shortening — butter, lard, or other fat, used to make pastry, bread, etc., short.
  • shortgrass — any of several range grasses of short stature, as buffalo grass, prevalent in semiarid regions of the Great Plains.
  • shotgunner — a person who is skilled with a shotgun
  • shower gel — liquid soap product
  • showground — outdoor events venue
  • shuddering — trembling or quivering with fear, dread, cold, etc.
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