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10-letter words containing s, h, a

  • schoolward — towards or in the direction of school
  • schoolyard — a playground or sports field near a school.
  • schumacher — Ernst Friedrich (ɛrnst ˈfriːdrɪç). 1911–77, British economist, born in Germany. He is best known for his book Small is Beautiful (1973)
  • schwarzlot — a type of black decoration on German glassware and ceramics that was popular in the 17th and 18th centuries
  • scrap heap — a pile of old, discarded material, as metal.
  • scrap-heap — a pile of old, discarded material, as metal.
  • scratching — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
  • scratchpad — pad of paper for rough notes
  • scrimshank — to avoid one's obligations or share of work; shirk.
  • scrollhead — billethead.
  • scrum half — a player who puts in the ball at scrums and tries to get it away to his three-quarter backs
  • 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.
  • sea change — a striking change, as in appearance, often for the better.
  • sea dahlia — a garden plant, Coreopsis maritima, of the southwestern coast of North America, having long-stalked, solitary, yellow flower heads nearly 3 inches (7.6 cm) wide.
  • sea urchin — any echinoderm of the class Echinoidea, having a somewhat globular or discoid form, and a shell composed of many calcareous plates covered with projecting spines.
  • seal beach — a town in S California.
  • seamanship — knowledge and skill pertaining to the operation, navigation, management, safety, and maintenance of a ship.
  • seannachie — a Gaelic storyteller in the Scottish Highlands or in Ireland
  • search dog — a dog trained to assist rescue workers in finding people buried under rubble by detection by smell
  • search out — hunt for, seek
  • searchable — to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter.
  • searchless — unsearchable; inscrutable.
  • seborrhoea — an excessive and abnormal discharge from the sebaceous glands.
  • secondhand — not directly known or experienced; obtained from others or from books: Most of our knowledge is secondhand.
  • semaphoric — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
  • semilethal — a semilethal gene
  • sepulchral — of, relating to, or serving as a tomb.
  • serigraphy — a print made by the silkscreen process.
  • sex change — the alteration, by surgery and hormone treatments, of a person's physical sex characteristics to approximate those of the opposite sex: Born male, she now lives as a woman but has no plans for a sex change.
  • shabbiness — impaired by wear, use, etc.; worn: shabby clothes.
  • shacharith — the religious service celebrated by Jews every morning.
  • shackletonSir Ernest Henry, 1874–1922, English explorer of the Antarctic.
  • shade deck — a light deck supported by stanchions.
  • shade tree — a tree planted or valued for its shade.
  • shade-tree — a tree planted or valued for its shade.
  • shadow box — a shallow, rectangular frame fronted with a glass panel, used to show and at the same time protect items on display, as paintings, coins, or jewelry.
  • shadow pin — a vertical pin set in an azimuth instrument or at the center of a compass card, indicating by the direction of its shadow the azimuth of the sun.
  • shadow-box — a shallow, rectangular frame fronted with a glass panel, used to show and at the same time protect items on display, as paintings, coins, or jewelry.
  • shadowcast — to enhance (a microscope image) by exposing it to a stream of a vapour of a heavy metal in order to create a shadow
  • shadowland — a land or region of shadows, phantoms, unrealities, or uncertainties: the shadowland of imagination.
  • shadowless — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
  • shadowlike — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
  • shaganappi — thongs, straps, or lacings made of rawhide.
  • shagginess — covered with or having long, rough hair.
  • shaggy cap — an edible inky-cap mushroom, Coprinus comatus, having an elongated, shaggy pileus.
  • shaggymane — an edible and elongated fungus or mushroom, Coprinus comatus, with shaggy scales across the cap and black spores
  • shagreened — made, covered with, or resembling shagreen
  • shagtastic — sexually attractive; sexy
  • shah jahan — 1592?–1666, Mogul emperor in India 1628?–58: built the Taj Mahal.
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