10-letter words containing s, h, a, p
- shopaholic — a frequent shopper, especially one who is unable to control his or her spending.
- shopwalker — a floorwalker.
- show-place — an estate, mansion, or the like, usually open to the public, renowned for its beauty, excellent design and workmanship, historical interest, etc.
- shower cap — a plastic cap worn in the shower to keep the hair dry
- shrinkpack — flexible plastic used for shrink-wrapping goods
- sinophobia — a fear or dislike of China, or Chinese people, their language or culture
- siphonogam — a plant that is pollinated by siphonogamy
- sitophobia — abnormal aversion to food.
- sketch map — a rough map of the principal features of a locale, as one drawn from memory.
- skin patch — an adhesive patch stuck to the skin to slowly and steadily release medicine into the bloodstream
- slap happy — severely befuddled; punch-drunk: a slaphappy boxer.
- slap-happy — severely befuddled; punch-drunk: a slaphappy boxer.
- slash pine — a pine, Pinus elliotii, found in slashes and swamps in the southeastern U.S., yielding a hard, durable wood.
- slave ship — a ship for transporting slaves from their native homes to places of bondage.
- slavophile — a person who greatly admires the Slavs and Slavic ways.
- slavophobe — a person who fears or hates the Slavs, their influence, or things Slavic.
- sleepyhead — a sleepy person.
- small chop — cocktail snacks
- smartphone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
- smoothpate — a bald person with a smooth head
- snaphaunce — an early flintlock mechanism for igniting a charge of gunpowder in a gun.
- snappishly — in a sharp or irritable manner
- sociopathy — a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
- solar ship — (in ancient Egypt) a boat placed in or near the tomb of a king to transport him to the sun.
- sonography — the medical diagnostic imaging technique used to see internal organs, muscles, etc
- sophoclean — 495?–406? b.c, Greek dramatist.
- soul patch — a small patch of facial hair below the centre of the lower lip and above the chin
- sousaphone — a form of bass tuba, similar to the helicon, used in brass bands.
- south pass — a mountain pass in SW Wyoming, cutting through the Rocky Mountains at the S of the Wind River range: part of the Oregon Trail.
- space shoe — a custom shoe molded to the contours of the wearer's foot
- space shot — the launch of a spacecraft and its subsequent flight in space
- sparkishly — in a sparkish manner
- spatchcock — a fowl that has been dressed and split open for grilling.
- spathulate — spatulate.
- spaza shop — South African slang for a small shop in a township
- speech act — any of the acts that may be performed by a speaker in making an utterance, as stating, asking, requesting, advising, warning, or persuading, considered in terms of the content of the message, the intention of the speaker, and the effect on the listener.
- speech day — In some British schools, speech day is a day, usually at the end of the school year, when prizes are presented to pupils and speeches are made by guest speakers and the head teacher.
- sphacelate — affected with gangrene
- sphalerite — a very common mineral, zinc sulfide, ZnS, usually containing some iron and a little cadmium, occurring in yellow, brown, or black crystals or cleavable masses with resinous luster: the principal ore of zinc and cadmium; blackjack.
- sphenogram — a cuneiform character.
- sphenoidal — relating to the sphenoid bone
- spheroidal — pertaining to a spheroid or spheroids.
- spirograph — an instrument for recording respiratory movements.
- splanchnic — of or relating to the viscera or entrails; visceral.
- splanchno- — the viscera
- splash dam — a flood dam built to contain water that is released for driving logs.
- splash out — If you splash out on something, especially on a luxury, you buy it even though it costs a lot of money.
- splashback — a sheet of glass, plastic, etc, attached to a wall above a basin to protect the wall against splashing
- splashdown — the landing of a space vehicle in a body of water, especially the ocean.
- spokeshave — a cutting tool having a blade set between two handles, originally for shaping spokes, but now in general use for dressing curved edges of wood and forming round bars and shapes.