10-letter words containing s, h, e, l, t, r
- lectorship — a lecturer in a college or university.
- lethargies — Plural form of lethargy.
- lightsaber — a type of sword, as depicted in the fictional Star Wars universe, with a blade made of laser energy that can both cut and burn: The Jedi knight drew his lightsaber and prepared to defend himself.
- lightsabre — Alternative spelling of lightsaber.
- litherness — (obsolete) Wickedness.
- lithuresis — the passage of gravel in the urine.
- lose heart — to become despondent or disillusioned (over something)
- 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.
- motherless — a female parent.
- orchestral — of, relating to, or resembling an orchestra.
- 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.
- orthostyle — (of columns) erected in a straight row.
- polychrest — a thing which has adapted to multiple uses
- rhythmless — movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent, or the like.
- rifle shot — sound of shotgun fire
- ruthlessly — without pity or compassion; cruel; merciless: a ruthless tyrant.
- salt horse — salted beef; salt junk.
- saltshaker — table-salt dispenser
- schnitzler — Arthur [ahr-ther;; German ahr-too r] /ˈɑr θər;; German ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1862–1931, Austrian dramatist and novelist.
- self-worth — the sense of one's own value or worth as a person; self-esteem; self-respect.
- sell short — having little length; not long.
- 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.
- shetlander — a native or inhabitant of Shetland
- shoplifter — a person who steals goods from the shelves or displays of a retail store while posing as a customer.
- short line — a bus or rail route covering only a limited distance.
- short sale — an act or instance of selling short.
- short-life — not designed to last
- shrievalty — the office, term, or jurisdiction of a sheriff.
- slathering — to spread or apply thickly: to slather butter on toast.
- slaughtery — a slaughterhouse
- sleepshirt — a shirtlike garment, usually knee-length or shorter, worn for sleeping.
- slithering — to slide down or along a surface, especially unsteadily, from side to side, or with some friction or noise: The box slithered down the chute.
- sloth bear — a coarse-haired, long-snouted bear, Ursus ursinus, of India and Indochina: now rare.
- solar-heat — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
- southernly — southerly.
- 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.
- spherulite — a rounded aggregate of radiating crystals found in obsidian and other glassy igneous rocks.
- st. helier — a British island in the English Channel: the largest of the Channel Islands. 44 sq. mi. (116 sq. km). Capital: St. Helier.
- stadholder — the chief magistrate of the former republic of the United Provinces of the Netherlands.
- star shell — a shell that bursts in the air and produces a bright light to illuminate enemy positions.
- starchedly — in a starched manner
- stealthier — done, characterized, or acting by stealth; furtive: stealthy footsteps.
- sternwheel — a paddle wheel at the stern of a vessel.
- strophiole — a small growth on some plants' seeds
- sulphurate — to combine or treat with sulphur or a sulphur compound
- superlight — extremely light
- sutherland — Earl Wilbur, Jr. 1915–74, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1971.
- tear shell — tear bomb.
- the-rivals — a comedy of manners (1775) by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
- thimerosal — a cream-colored, crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 9 H 9 HgNaO 2 S, used chiefly as an antiseptic.