10-letter words containing s, h, e, a, r
- megatheres — Plural form of megathere.
- megathrust — (geology) A sudden slip along a fault between a subducting and an overriding plate; results in a major earthquake.
- mesothorax — the middle segment of the three divisions of the thorax of an insect, bearing the second pair of legs and the first pair of wings.
- metaphrase — a literal translation.
- metaphrast — a person who translates or changes a literary work from one form to another, as prose into verse.
- mischanter — mishanter.
- mischarged — Simple past tense and past participle of mischarge.
- mischarges — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mischarge.
- mishearing — Present participle of mishear.
- 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.
- monarchies — a state or nation in which the supreme power is actually or nominally lodged in a monarch. Compare absolute monarchy, limited monarchy.
- mythmakers — Plural form of mythmaker.
- nairnshire — a historic county in N Scotland.
- nanosphere — A nanoscale sphere.
- nightmares — Plural form of nightmare.
- nomarchies — Plural form of nomarchy.
- nordhausen — a city in central Germany: site of a former Nazi concentration camp.
- north-east — The north-east is the direction which is halfway between north and east.
- oberhausen — a city in W Germany, in the lower Ruhr valley.
- oireachtas — the parliament of the Republic of Ireland, consisting of the president, the Dail Eireann, and the Seanad Eireann.
- oleographs — Plural form of oleograph.
- orchestral — of, relating to, or resembling an orchestra.
- orchestras — Plural form of orchestra.
- orphanages — Plural form of orphanage.
- 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.
- othergates — different or other
- 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.
- pale horse — a representation of Death, as in literature or the Bible.
- 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.
- paraphrase — a restatement of a text or passage giving the meaning in another form, as for clearness; rewording.
- paraphyses — one of the erect, sterile filaments often growing among the reproductive organs in many fungi, mosses, and ferns.
- parathesis — the placing of grammatically parallel words or phrases together; apposition
- parischane — a parish
- pas marche — a marching step.
- 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.
- peak hours — prime time, busiest period
- peashooter — a tube through which dried peas, beans, or small pellets are blown, used as a toy.
- periphrase — the use of an unnecessarily long or roundabout form of expression; circumlocution.
- perishable — subject to decay, ruin, or destruction: perishable fruits and vegetables.
- phase rule — a law that the number of degrees of freedom in a system in equilibrium is equal to two plus the number of components less the number of phases. Thus, a system of ice, melted ice, and water vapor, being one component and three phases, has no degrees of freedom. Compare variance (def 4).
- pheasantry — a place where pheasants are bred or are kept together
- phragmites — any of several tall grasses of the genus Phragmites, having plumed heads, growing in marshy areas, especially the common reed P. australis (or P. communis).