10-letter words containing s, h, a
- ogden nash — John, 1752–1835, English architect and city planner.
- oireachtas — the parliament of the Republic of Ireland, consisting of the president, the Dail Eireann, and the Seanad Eireann.
- 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.
- oleographs — Plural form of oleograph.
- omophagous — the eating of raw food, especially raw meat.
- onslaughts — Plural form of onslaught.
- open flash — a photographic technique employing a flash fired while the camera shutter is held open.
- orchardist — a person who owns, manages, or cultivates an orchard.
- orchestral — of, relating to, or resembling an orchestra.
- orchestras — Plural form of orchestra.
- orphanages — Plural form of orphanage.
- orpharions — Plural form of orpharion.
- orthoclase — a common white or pink mineral of the feldspar group, KAlSi 3 O 8 , having two good cleavages at right angles, and found in silica-rich igneous rocks: used in the manufacture of porcelain.
- osteopathy — a therapeutic system originally based upon the premise that manipulation of the muscles and bones to promote structural integrity could restore or preserve health: current osteopathic physicians use the diagnostic and therapeutic techniques of conventional medicine as well as manipulative measures.
- othergates — different or other
- outlandish — freakishly or grotesquely strange or odd, as appearance, dress, objects, ideas, or practices; bizarre: outlandish clothes; outlandish questions.
- outmatches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outmatch.
- outreaches — Plural form of outreach.
- overarches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overarch.
- overlavish — expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion: lavish spending.
- overrashly — in an overrash manner
- overshadow — to be more important or significant by comparison: For years he overshadowed his brother.
- overslaugh — to pass over or disregard (a person) by giving a promotion, position, etc., to another instead.
- pack-horse — a horse used for carrying goods, freight, supplies, etc.
- paddlefish — a large ganoid fish, Polyodon spathula, of the Mississippi River and its larger tributaries, having a long, flat, paddlelike snout.
- padma shri — (in India) an award for distinguished service in any field
- paintbrush — a brush for applying paint, as one used in painting houses or one used in painting pictures.
- pale horse — a representation of Death, as in literature or the Bible.
- panatheism — the belief that because there is no God, nothing can properly be termed sacred or holy.
- pansophism — a claim or pretension to pansophy.
- pansophist — someone with universal knowledge
- pantheress — a female panther
- paper shop — A paper shop is a shop that sells newspapers and magazines, and also things such as tobacco, sweets, and cards.
- paraphasia — a defect of speech in which the normal flow of words is interrupted by inappropriate words and phrases
- paraphasic — of, resembling, or exhibiting paraphasia
- paraphrase — a restatement of a text or passage giving the meaning in another form, as for clearness; rewording.
- paraphrast — a person who paraphrases.
- paraphyses — one of the erect, sterile filaments often growing among the reproductive organs in many fungi, mosses, and ferns.
- paraphysis — one of the erect, sterile filaments often growing among the reproductive organs in many fungi, mosses, and ferns.
- parastichy — one of a number of seemingly secondary spirals or oblique ranks winding around the stem or axis to the right and left in a spiral arrangement of leaves, scales, etc., where the internodes are short and the members closely crowded, as in the houseleek and the pine cone.
- parathesis — the placing of grammatically parallel words or phrases together; apposition
- parischane — a parish
- parrotfish — any of various chiefly tropical marine fishes, especially of the family Scaridae: so called because of their brilliant coloring and the shape of their jaws.
- pas marche — a marching step.
- paschal ii — (Ranieri) died 1118, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1099–1118.
- pasigraphy — a system of writing intelligible to persons of all languages; a universal language
- passphrase — (operating system) A string of words and characters that you type in to authenticate yourself. Passphrases differ from passwords only in length. Passwords are usually short - six to ten characters. Passphrases are usually much longer - up to 100 characters or more. Modern passphrases were invented by Sigmund N. Porter in 1982. Their greater length makes passphrases more secure. Phil Zimmermann's popular encryption program PGP, for example, requires you to make up a passphrase that you then must enter whenever you sign or decrypt messages.
- pasticheur — a person who makes, composes, or concocts a pastiche.
- pastorship — the position, authority, or office of a pastor.