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10-letter words containing s, c, h, n, e

  • phrensical — frenzical; frenzied
  • pitchstone — a glassy volcanic rock having a resinous luster and resembling hardened pitch.
  • poachiness — the state of being poachy
  • preachings — the act or practice of a person who preaches.
  • princeship — a nonreigning male member of a royal family.
  • quenchless — not capable of being quenched; unquenchable.
  • ranshackle — to ransack
  • rechristen — to christen or baptize (someone) again
  • reichsbank — the former German national bank.
  • reichstein — Tadeus [tah-dey-oo s] /tɑˈdeɪ ʊs/ (Show IPA), 1897–1996, Swiss chemist, born in Poland: Nobel Prize in medicine 1950.
  • revanchism — an advocate or supporter of a political policy of revanche, especially in order to seek vengeance for a previous military defeat.
  • revanchist — an advocate or supporter of a political policy of revanche, especially in order to seek vengeance for a previous military defeat.
  • rhinoceros — any of several large, thick-skinned, perissodactyl mammals of the family Rhinocerotidae, of Africa and India, having one or two upright horns on the snout: all rhinoceroses are endangered.
  • rhinoscope — a special instrument used to examine the nasal passages
  • saccharine — of the nature of or resembling that of sugar: a powdery substance with a saccharine taste.
  • sand perch — squirrelfish.
  • sandwiched — two or more slices of bread or the like with a layer of meat, fish, cheese, etc., between each pair.
  • sanmicheli — Michele [mee-ke-le] /miˈkɛ lɛ/ (Show IPA), 1484–1559, Italian architect and military engineer.
  • schalstein — a slate-like rock formed by shearing basaltic or andesitic tuff or lava
  • scharwenka — (Ludwig) Philipp [loot-vikh fee-lip] /ˈlut vɪx ˈfi lɪp/ (Show IPA), 1847–1917, German composer.
  • scheduling — a plan of procedure, usually written, for a proposed objective, especially with reference to the sequence of and time allotted for each item or operation necessary to its completion: The schedule allows three weeks for this stage.
  • scherzando — (a musical direction) playful; sportive.
  • schlieffen — Alfred (ˈalfreːt), Count von Schlieffen. 1833–1913, German field marshal, who devised the Schlieffen Plan (1905): it was intended to ensure German victory over a Franco-Russian alliance by holding off Russia with minimal strength and swiftly defeating France by a massive flanking movement through the Low Countries. In a modified form, it was unsuccessfully employed in World War I (1914)
  • schliemann — Heinrich [hahyn-rikh] /ˈhaɪn rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1822–90, German archaeologist: excavated ancient cities of Troy and Mycenae.
  • schnitzler — Arthur [ahr-ther;; German ahr-too r] /ˈɑr θər;; German ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1862–1931, Austrian dramatist and novelist.
  • 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.
  • screeching — causing or uttering screeches: screeching bats.
  • 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.
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • sea change — a striking change, as in appearance, often for the better.
  • sea urchin — any echinoderm of the class Echinoidea, having a somewhat globular or discoid form, and a shell composed of many calcareous plates covered with projecting spines.
  • seannachie — a Gaelic storyteller in the Scottish Highlands or in Ireland
  • secondhand — not directly known or experienced; obtained from others or from books: Most of our knowledge is secondhand.
  • seven-inch — a phonograph record seven inches in diameter, usually having one popular song on each side.
  • sex change — the alteration, by surgery and hormone treatments, of a person's physical sex characteristics to approximate those of the opposite sex: Born male, she now lives as a woman but has no plans for a sex change.
  • shackleton — Sir Ernest Henry, 1874–1922, English explorer of the Antarctic.
  • shankpiece — a piece of metal or fiber for giving form to the shank of a shoe.
  • shevchenko — Taras Grigoryevich [Russian tah-ruh s gryi-gawr-yi-vyich] /Russian ˈtɑ rəs gryɪˈgɔr yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1814–61, Ukrainian national poet.
  • side chain — a group of atoms bound to an atom, usually a carbon, that forms part of a larger chain or ring in a molecule
  • snaphaunce — an early flintlock mechanism for igniting a charge of gunpowder in a gun.
  • somewhence — from somewhere
  • sophoclean — 495?–406? b.c, Greek dramatist.
  • squelching — to strike or press with crushing force; crush down; squash.
  • stanchless — not to be stanched.
  • stanchness — the state or quality of being staunch
  • staunchest — firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, etc., as a person: a staunch Republican; a staunch friend.
  • stretching — the activity of straightening the arms and legs and tightening the muscles
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