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10-letter words containing s, h, e, r, t

  • shipmaster — a person who commands a ship; master; captain.
  • shirtdress — shirtwaist (def 2).
  • shirtmaker — a person who makes shirts.
  • shitkicker — an unsophisticated farmer, cowboy, or other rural person; country person.
  • shoestring — a shoelace.
  • shopfitter — a worker who makes and installs fittings for commercial premises
  • shoplifter — a person who steals goods from the shelves or displays of a retail store while posing as a customer.
  • shorefront — land along a shore.
  • short code — (language)   (SHORTCODE) A pseudocode interpreter for mathematics problems, designed by John Mauchly in 1949 to execute on Eckert and Mauchly's BINAC and later on UNIVAC I and II. Short Code was possibly the first attempt at a high level language.
  • short fuse — a quick temper: A person with a short fuse has to be handled diplomatically.
  • short game — the aspect of golf considered in relation to the ability of a player to hit medium or short shots, as chip shots, pitch shots, and putts, with accuracy. Compare long game (def 1).
  • short head — a distance shorter than the length of a horse's head
  • short line — a bus or rail route covering only a limited distance.
  • short rate — a charge, proportionately higher than the annual rate, made for insurance issued or continued in force by the insured for less than one year.
  • short ream — 480 sheets of paper
  • short sale — an act or instance of selling short.
  • short time — a period or schedule during which the number of working hours is reduced: The recession has put most of the manufacturing plants on short time.
  • short wave — Electricity. a radio wave, shorter than that used in AM broadcasting, corresponding to frequencies of over 1600 kilohertz: used for long-distance reception or transmission.
  • short-arse — a small man
  • short-life — not designed to last
  • short-term — covering or applying to a relatively short period of time.
  • short-wave — Electricity. a radio wave, shorter than that used in AM broadcasting, corresponding to frequencies of over 1600 kilohertz: used for long-distance reception or transmission.
  • shortbread — a butter cookie commonly made in thick, pie-shaped wheels or rolled and cut in fancy shapes.
  • shortening — butter, lard, or other fat, used to make pastry, bread, etc., short.
  • shortsheet — to fold a sheet so that it is impossible for a person to stretch their legs when they get into bed (done as a practical joke)
  • shot tower — a tower from the top of which finely divided streams of molten lead are dropped down a central well, breaking up into spherical drops during their fall to be quenched and hardened in a tank of water at the bottom.
  • shotgunner — a person who is skilled with a shotgun
  • showboater — a boat, especially a paddle-wheel steamer, used as a traveling theater.
  • shower tea — kitchen tea.
  • shreveport — a city in NW Louisiana, on the Red River.
  • shrievalty — the office, term, or jurisdiction of a sheriff.
  • shrimp net — a net for catching shrimps
  • shrovetide — the three days before Ash Wednesday, once a time of confession and absolution.
  • shutterbug — an amateur photographer, especially one who is greatly devoted to the hobby.
  • shuttering — a solid or louvered movable cover for a window.
  • sight-read — Someone who can sight-read can play or sing music from a printed sheet the first time they see it, without practising it beforehand.
  • sisterhood — the state of being a sister.
  • sixth year — (in Scotland) the most senior class in a secondary school to which pupils, usually above the legal leaving age, may proceed to take sixth-year studies, retake or take additional Highers, etc
  • 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.
  • smart home — a dwelling equipped with systems and appliances that can be operated remotely using a computer or mobile phone
  • smartphone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
  • smithereen — to break into small fragments
  • smoothbore — (of firearms) having a bore that is smooth; not rifled.
  • smothering — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
  • solar-heat — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
  • soothsayer — a person who professes to foretell events.
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