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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).
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