10-letter words containing s, h, e, a, r
- sapphirine — consisting of sapphire; like sapphire, especially in color.
- saprophyte — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- sarcophile — a flesh-eating animal, especially the Tasmanian devil.
- schaerbeek — a city in central Belgium, near Brussels.
- scharwenka — (Ludwig) Philipp [loot-vikh fee-lip] /ˈlut vɪx ˈfi lɪp/ (Show IPA), 1847–1917, German composer.
- schefflera — any of various tropical trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Schefflera, of the ginseng family, having glossy, palmately compound leaves and often cultivated as a houseplant.
- scherzando — (a musical direction) playful; sportive.
- schongauer — Martin [mahr-tn;; German mahr-teen] /ˈmɑr tn;; German ˈmɑr tin/ (Show IPA), c1430–91, German engraver and painter.
- schumacher — Ernst Friedrich (ɛrnst ˈfriːdrɪç). 1911–77, British economist, born in Germany. He is best known for his book Small is Beautiful (1973)
- scrap heap — a pile of old, discarded material, as metal.
- scrap-heap — a pile of old, discarded material, as metal.
- scrollhead — billethead.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- semaphoric — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
- sepulchral — of, relating to, or serving as a tomb.
- serigraphy — a print made by the silkscreen process.
- shade tree — a tree planted or valued for its shade.
- shade-tree — a tree planted or valued for its shade.
- shagreened — made, covered with, or resembling shagreen
- shanghaier — a person who shanghais
- share shop — A share shop is a shop or Internet website where members of the public can buy shares in companies.
- sharenting — the habitual use of social media to share news, images, etc of one’s children
- shark bell — a bell sounded to warn swimmers of the presence of sharks
- sharp-eyed — having keen sight or perception.
- sharpen up — hone, refine
- sharpening — the act of making the edge of something very thin or of making its end pointed
- shattering — to break (something) into pieces, as by a blow.
- shear cell — A shear cell is a device for testing how a powder or particle mixture flows.
- shear legs — shear (def 16).
- shear stud — a stud that transfers shear stress between metal and concrete in composite structural members in which the stud is welded to the metal component
- shear zone — Geology. a zone of closely spaced, approximately parallel faults or dispersed displacements.
- shearwater — any of several long-winged petrels of the genus Puffinus that appear to shear the water with their wing tips when flying low.
- sheep farm — place where sheep are raised
- sheep race — a single-file walkway for sheep at the entrance to a sheep-dip
- sheeptrack — a small natural terrace on a hillside
- shelf mark — a symbol indicating the location of a work on a shelf.
- shell star — a type of star showing bright emission lines superimposed on its normal absorption spectrum, presumably caused by a gaseous shell around the star.
- sherardize — to coat (steel) with a thin cladding of zinc by heating in a mixture of sand and powdered zinc.
- shetlander — a native or inhabitant of Shetland
- ship-bread — hardtack.
- shipmaster — a person who commands a ship; master; captain.
- shirtmaker — a person who makes shirts.
- shoe cream — cream for polishing shoes
- shopwalker — a floorwalker.