10-letter words containing r, o, s, h
- rothschild — Lionel Nathan, Baron de ("Lord Natty") 1809–79, English banker: first Jewish member of Parliament (son of Nathan Meyer Rothschild).
- 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-sawn — (of wood) used as originally cut, without smoothing or sanding: shingles of rough-sawn cedar.
- roughhouse — rough, disorderly playing, especially indoors.
- roundheels — a prostitute.
- roundhouse — a building for the servicing and repair of locomotives, built around a turntable in the form of some part of a circle.
- rush order — an order for goods required urgently
- russophile — a person who is friendly to, admires, or prefers Russia or Russian customs, institutions, etc.
- russophobe — a person who hates or fears Russia or the Russians.
- ruthenious — containing bivalent ruthenium.
- saccharoid — having a granular texture like that of loaf sugar.
- saccharose — sucrose.
- sag harbor — a resort town on E Long Island in SE New York.
- sailor hat — a hat with a flat round crown and fairly broad brim that is rolled upwards
- salt horse — salted beef; salt junk.
- samothrace — a Greek island in the NE Aegean.
- saprophyte — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- saprotroph — any organism, esp a fungus or bacterium, that lives and feeds on dead organic matter
- sarcophagi — a stone coffin, especially one bearing sculpture, inscriptions, etc., often displayed as a monument.
- sarcophile — a flesh-eating animal, especially the Tasmanian devil.
- scaramouch — a stock character in commedia dell'arte and farce who is a cowardly braggart, easily beaten and frightened.
- scherzando — (a musical direction) playful; sportive.
- schizocarp — a dry, dehiscent fruit that at maturity splits into two or more one-seeded carpels.
- 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.
- school run — The school run is the journey that parents make each day when they take their children to school and bring them home from school.
- schoolgirl — a girl attending school.
- schoolmarm — a female schoolteacher, especially of the old-time country school type, popularly held to be strict and priggish.
- schoolroom — a room in which a class is conducted or pupils are taught.
- schoolward — towards or in the direction of school
- schoolwork — the material studied in or for school, comprising homework and work done in class.
- schoolyard — a playground or sports field near a school.
- schwarzlot — a type of black decoration on German glassware and ceramics that was popular in the 17th and 18th centuries
- scoresheet — a sheet of paper on which scores are recorded
- screenshot — Also called screen capture. a copy or image of what is seen on a computer screen at a given time: Save the screenshot as a graphics file.
- screw hook — a hook having a shank in the form of a screw.
- scrollhead — billethead.
- scruncheon — (in Newfoundland) a small crisp piece of fried pork fat
- scunthorpe — a town in E England, in North Lincolnshire unitary authority, Lincolnshire: developed rapidly after the discovery of local iron ore in the late 19th century; iron and steel industries have declined. Pop: 72 660 (2001)
- scyphiform — shaped like a cup or goblet.
- sea anchor — any of various devices, as a drogue, that have great resistance to being pulled through the water and are dropped forward of a vessel at the end of a cable to hold the bow into the wind or sea during a storm.
- search dog — a dog trained to assist rescue workers in finding people buried under rubble by detection by smell
- search out — hunt for, seek
- seborrheic — an excessive and abnormal discharge from the sebaceous glands.
- seborrhoea — an excessive and abnormal discharge from the sebaceous glands.
- self-worth — the sense of one's own value or worth as a person; self-esteem; self-respect.
- sell short — having little length; not long.
- semaphoric — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
- semichorus — half of a chorus; part of a chorus to be sung by a portion but not all of the singers