10-letter words containing s, h, a
- smash down — If you smash down a door, building, or other large heavy object, you hit it hard and break it until it falls on the ground.
- smashingly — impressive or wonderful: a smashing display.
- smashmouth — denoting a style of play, esp in American football, that is characterized by power and aggression rather than skill and finesse
- smithcraft — the work or craft of a smith
- smoothpate — a bald person with a smooth head
- snakemouth — rose pogonia.
- snaphaunce — an early flintlock mechanism for igniting a charge of gunpowder in a gun.
- snappishly — in a sharp or irritable manner
- sneakishly — in a stealthy or underhanded manner
- so much as — in the way or manner indicated, described, or implied: Do it so.
- sobhuza ii — 1899–1982, king of Swaziland 1921–82.
- sociopathy — a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
- soft wheat — a wheat characterized by soft, starchy kernels that yield a flour used in making pastry, breakfast cereals, etc.
- softheaded — stupid or foolish
- solar myth — a myth explaining or allegorizing the origin or movement of the sun
- solar ship — (in ancient Egypt) a boat placed in or near the tomb of a king to transport him to the sun.
- solar-heat — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
- sonography — the medical diagnostic imaging technique used to see internal organs, muscles, etc
- soothsayer — a person who professes to foretell events.
- 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
- 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.
- sousaphone — a form of bass tuba, similar to the helicon, used in brass bands.
- south asia — the countries and land area of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, India, the Maldives, Nepal, and Pakistan.
- south gate — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- 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.
- south seas — the seas south of the equator
- south-east — The south-east is the direction which is halfway between south and east.
- southwards — moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the south.
- 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.