10-letter words containing r, i, g, h, t, s
- 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.
- rush light — a candle made from a dried, partly peeled rush that has been dipped in grease.
- satyagrahi — an exponent of nonviolent resistance, esp as a form of political protest
- 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.
- sharenting — the habitual use of social media to share news, images, etc of one’s children
- shattering — to break (something) into pieces, as by a blow.
- 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.
- shortening — butter, lard, or other fat, used to make pastry, bread, etc., short.
- 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.
- slathering — to spread or apply thickly: to slather butter on toast.
- 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.
- smothering — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
- sprightful — sprightly.
- springhalt — stringhalt.
- straight a — achieving or showing the highest grade or superior accomplishment, especially scholastically: a straight A report card.
- 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
- stringhalt — a nerve disorder in horses, causing exaggerated flexing movements of the hind legs in walking.
- striplight — a row of lamps, provided with a reflector for floodlighting the stage, used as border lights, footlights, backing lights, etc.
- superlight — extremely light
- 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.
- switchgear — switching equipment used in an electric power station.
- switchgirl — a woman who operates a telephone switchboard
- thrustings — the white whey that is hand-pressed out of the curd and from which butter is often made
- tight-arse — an inhibited or excessively self-controlled person
- undersight — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
- witchgrass — Any of several grasses, of the genus Panicum, often found as a weed.