10-letter words containing s, h, a, d
- jamshedpur — a city in SE Jharkhand, in NE India.
- jazz hands — a movement in modern dance in which a performer shakes both hands rapidly with the palms facing forwards and the fingers extended
- join hands — clasp each another's hands
- juiceheads — Plural form of juicehead.
- kronshtadt — city & naval fortress on an island in NW Russia, on the Gulf of Finland: pop. 45,000
- lamp-shade — a shade, usually translucent or opaque, for shielding the glare of a light source in a lamp or for directing the light to a particular area.
- lampshades — Plural form of lampshade.
- languished — Simple past tense and past participle of languish.
- last-ditch — done finally in desperation to avoid defeat, failure, disaster, etc.: a last-ditch attempt to avert war.
- lead sheet — a copy of a song containing the melody line, sometimes along with the lyrics and the notations indicating the harmonic structure.
- leadership — the position or function of a leader, a person who guides or directs a group: He managed to maintain his leadership of the party despite heavy opposition. Synonyms: administration, management, directorship, control, governorship, stewardship, hegemony.
- leaseholds — Plural form of leasehold.
- lizardfish — any of several large-mouthed fishes of the family Synodontidae, having a lizardlike head.
- loose head — the prop on the hooker's left in the front row of a scrum
- lughnasadh — an ancient Celtic festival held on Aug 1. It is also celebrated by modern pagans
- madonnaish — resembling a Madonna
- manhandles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of manhandle.
- marchlands — Plural form of marchland.
- marsh deer — a large South American deer, Blastocerus dichotomus, that lives in forests near rivers and swamps: an endangered species.
- marshalled — a military officer of the highest rank, as in the French and some other armies. Compare field marshal.
- marshfield — a city in SE Massachusetts.
- marshlands — Plural form of marshland.
- mechanised — to make mechanical.
- medusafish — a stromateid fish, Icichthys lockingtoni, of deep waters off the coast of California, living as a commensal in and about medusas.
- medusahead — A type of bristly grass native to Europe.
- megadeaths — Plural form of megadeath.
- melchiades — Saint, died a.d. 314, pope 310–314.
- mid-mashie — a club with an iron head the face of which has more slope than a midiron but less slope than a mashie iron.
- midshipman — a student, as at the U.S. Naval Academy, in training for commission as ensign in the Navy or second lieutenant in the Marine Corps. Compare cadet (def 2).
- mis-shaped — to shape badly or wrongly; deform.
- misbehaved — Simple past tense and past participle of misbehave.
- mischarged — Simple past tense and past participle of mischarge.
- mishandled — Simple past tense and past participle of mishandle.
- mishandles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mishandle.
- mismatched — Simple past tense and past participle of mismatch.
- ml threads — SML/NJ with mutual exclusion primitives similar to those in Modula-2+ and Mesa. Written by Greg Morrisett <[email protected]>. Implementations for Motorola 68020, SPARC and MIPS and VAX- and MIPS-based multiprocessors.
- moustached — Having moustache.
- musclehead — a muscular man, esp. one who is involved in bodybuilding, weight lifting, etc.
- nightshade — any of various plants of the genus Solanum, especially the black nightshade or the bittersweet.
- nightstand — night table.
- nordhausen — a city in central Germany: site of a former Nazi concentration camp.
- northlands — Plural form of northland.
- northwards — Also, northwards, northwardly. toward the north.
- ogden nash — John, 1752–1835, English architect and city planner.
- old danish — the Danish language as spoken and written from the 9th to the 14th centuries.
- old-siwash — a conventional designation for any small, provincial college or for such colleges collectively (often preceded by old): students from old Siwash.
- orchardist — a person who owns, manages, or cultivates an orchard.
- outlandish — freakishly or grotesquely strange or odd, as appearance, dress, objects, ideas, or practices; bizarre: outlandish clothes; outlandish questions.
- overshadow — to be more important or significant by comparison: For years he overshadowed his brother.
- paddlefish — a large ganoid fish, Polyodon spathula, of the Mississippi River and its larger tributaries, having a long, flat, paddlelike snout.