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

  • pitchstone — a glassy volcanic rock having a resinous luster and resembling hardened pitch.
  • poachiness — the state of being poachy
  • pocahontas — (Rebecca Rolfe) 1595?–1617, American Indian woman who is said to have prevented the execution of Captain John Smith.
  • postlaunch — relating to or occurring in the period after a launch
  • psychogony — the development or origin of the soul or mind
  • 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
  • rhinoscopy — examination of the nasal passages, esp with a rhinoscope
  • richardson — Henry Handel (Henrietta Richardson Robertson) 1870–1946, Australian novelist.
  • rosy finch — any of several finches of the genus Leucosticte, of Asia and western North America, having dark brown plumage with a pinkish wash on the wings and rump.
  • scherzando — (a musical direction) playful; sportive.
  • schizogony — (in the asexual reproduction of certain sporozoans) the multiple fission of a trophozoite or schizont into merozoites.
  • schnozzola — a nose, especially one of unusually large size.
  • 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.
  • schooligan — a person of school age who engages in acts of public disorder
  • 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)
  • scyphozoan — any coelenterate of the class Scyphozoa, comprising the true marine jellyfishes.
  • 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.
  • secondhand — not directly known or experienced; obtained from others or from books: Most of our knowledge is secondhand.
  • shackleton — Sir Ernest Henry, 1874–1922, English explorer of the Antarctic.
  • shevchenko — Taras Grigoryevich [Russian tah-ruh s gryi-gawr-yi-vyich] /Russian ˈtɑ rəs gryɪˈgɔr yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1814–61, Ukrainian national poet.
  • shockingly — causing intense surprise, disgust, horror, etc.
  • showcasing — a glass case for the display and protection of articles in shops, museums, etc.
  • shylockian — a relentless and revengeful moneylender in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
  • shylocking — a relentless and revengeful moneylender in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
  • somewhence — from somewhere
  • sophoclean — 495?–406? b.c, Greek dramatist.
  • splanchno- — the viscera
  • stanchions — an upright bar, beam, post, or support, as in a window, stall, ship, etc.
  • sticharion — a white tunic of silk or linen, corresponding to the alb, worn by deacons, priests, and bishops.
  • stracchino — a soft cheese from North Italy
  • sycophancy — self-seeking or servile flattery.
  • synchronal — synchronous.
  • synchronic — having reference to the facts of a linguistic system as it exists at one point in time without reference to its history: synchronic analysis; synchronic dialectology.
  • synecdoche — a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.
  • tchernosem — chernozem.
  • torch song — a popular song concerned with unhappiness or failure in love.
  • touchstone — a test or criterion for the qualities of a thing.
  • trichinose — to infest with parasitic worms (trichinae)
  • trichinous — pertaining to or of the nature of trichinosis.
  • unactorish — not resembling or characteristic of actors or acting
  • uncohesive — characterized by or causing cohesion: a cohesive agent.
  • unhistoric — not famous or important in history
  • unschooled — not schooled, taught, or trained: Though unschooled, he had a grasp of the subject.
  • unscorched — to affect the color, taste, etc., of by burning slightly: The collar of the shirt was yellow where the iron had scorched it.
  • unshocking — causing intense surprise, disgust, horror, etc.
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