10-letter words containing s, e, h, u
- slaughtery — a slaughterhouse
- slush pile — a collection of unsolicited manuscripts submitted to a publisher.
- smokehouse — a building or place in which meat, fish, etc., are cured with smoke.
- snakemouth — rose pogonia.
- snaphaunce — an early flintlock mechanism for igniting a charge of gunpowder in a gun.
- sound head — a mechanism through which film passes in a projector for conversion of the soundtrack into audio-frequency signals that can be amplified and reproduced.
- sound hole — an opening in the soundboard of a musical stringed instrument, as a violin or lute, for increasing the soundboard's capacity for vibration.
- sousaphone — a form of bass tuba, similar to the helicon, used in brass bands.
- south bend — a city in N Indiana.
- south gate — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- south node — the descending node of the moon.
- south pole — the region of a magnet toward which the lines of magnetic induction converge (south pole) or from which the lines of induction diverge (north pole)
- south seas — the seas south of the equator
- south-east — The south-east is the direction which is halfway between south and east.
- south-west — The south-west is the direction which is halfway between south and west.
- southerner — a native or inhabitant of the south.
- southernly — southerly.
- southfield — a city in SE Michigan, W of Detroit.
- spathulate — spatulate.
- speed hump — bump in road that slows traffic
- spherulite — a rounded aggregate of radiating crystals found in obsidian and other glassy igneous rocks.
- spike-rush — any perennial plant of the temperate cyperaceous genus Eleocharis, occurring esp by ponds, and having underground stems, narrow leaves, and small flowers
- spur wheel — spur gear.
- squabasher — a person who squabashes someone or something
- squarehead — a stupid person.
- squashable — easily squashed; soft
- squelching — to strike or press with crushing force; crush down; squash.
- squirearch — a member of the squirearchy.
- statehouse — the building in which the legislature of a state sits; the capitol of a state.
- staunchest — firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, etc., as a person: a staunch Republican; a staunch friend.
- steakhouse — a restaurant specializing in beefsteak.
- stealthful — secret, clandestine, or surreptitious procedure.
- stem duchy — (in medieval Germany) any of the independent duchies corresponding in part to areas of tribal settlement and preserving some elements of tribal social structure.
- stillhouse — a distillery or place where the distilling process takes place
- 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.
- subchapter — a subdivision especially of a body of laws.
- subcharter — to rent a chartered vehicle
- subchelate — having a claw with one pincer longer than the other
- subheading — a subordinate division of a title or heading.
- subhepatic — of or relating to the liver.
- subphrenic — underneath the diaphragm
- subtrahend — a number that is subtracted from another.
- suckerfish — remora.
- sugarhouse — a shed or other building where maple syrup or maple sugar is made.
- sulphatase — an enzyme of the esterase group that catalyses the hydrolysis of sulphate esters
- sulphatise — to convert into a sulfate, as by the roasting of ores.
- sulphonate — a salt or ester of any sulphonic acid containing the ion RSO2O– or the group RSO2O–, R being an organic group