10-letter words containing r, o, t, h, e, s
- smartphone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
- smoothbore — (of firearms) having a bore that is smooth; not rifled.
- smothering — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
- solar-heat — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
- soothsayer — a person who professes to foretell events.
- southerner — a native or inhabitant of the south.
- southernly — southerly.
- spherocyte — an abnormal blood cell
- 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.
- sporophyte — the form of a plant in the alternation of generations that produces asexual spores.
- 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.
- stenotherm — an organism that is only able to live within a narrow parameter of temperatures
- stepmother — the wife of one's father by a later marriage.
- stockhorse — a horse or pony used in herding cattle.
- stonebrash — a type of subsoil consisting of small or broken stones or rock
- stonehorse — a stallion or uncastrated male horse
- storehouse — a building in which things are stored.
- stoutherie — theft
- stouthrief — theft using force or violence
- stretchout — a deliberate extension of time for meeting a production quota.
- strophiole — a small growth on some plants' seeds
- switcheroo — an unexpected or sudden change or reversal in attitude, character, position, action, etc.
- switchover — the act or process of changing from one power source, system, etc., to another.
- tchernosem — chernozem.
- 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.
- 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 chores — housework
- the forces — the armed services of a nation
- the horses — gambling linked to horse racing
- the majors — the major leagues
- the minors — the minor leagues, esp. in baseball
- the others — the remaining ones (of a group)
- theocritus — flourished c270 b.c, Greek poet.
- theoretics — the theoretical or speculative part of a science or subject.
- thermistor — a resistor whose action depends upon changes of its resistance material with changes in temperature.
- 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.
- thermotics — the scientific study of heat
- 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.
- three-spot — a playing card, an upward face of a die, or a domino half bearing three pips.
- threescore — being or containing three times twenty; sixty.
- thresh out — to beat soundly in punishment; flog.
- thrombosed — affected with a thrombus or blood clot
- thunderous — producing thunder or a loud noise like thunder: thunderous applause.
- tocherless — without dowry or tocher
- toolpusher — a foreman who supervises drilling operations on an oil rig
- 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).