10-letter words containing s, h, o, l, a
- machoflops — /mach'oh-flops/ A pun on "megaflops" referring to the inflated performance figures often quoted by computer manufacturers. Real application programs are lucky to get half the quoted speed. See Your mileage may vary, benchmark.
- malnourish — Lb transitive To feed insufficiently, to cause malnutrition.
- mast cloth — a partial lining sewed to the back of a square sail to prevent chafing from contact with the mast.
- matchlocks — Plural form of matchlock.
- mesothelia — Plural form of mesothelium.
- mohs scale — a scale of hardness used in mineralogy. Its degrees, in increasing hardness, are: talc 1; gypsum 2; calcite 3; fluorite 4; apatite 5; feldspar 6; quartz 7; topaz 8; sapphire 9; diamond 10. Abbreviation: MSH.
- molestache — (slang, rare) A type of mustache supposedly associated with child molesters.
- mysophilia — a pathological attraction to dirt or filth.
- mythoclast — a destroyer or debunker of myths.
- nanoshells — Plural form of nanoshell.
- nicholas i — Saint ("Nicholas the Great") died a.d. 867, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 858–867.
- nicholas v — (Thomas Parentucelli) 1397?–1455, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1447–55.
- northlands — Plural form of northland.
- old danish — the Danish language as spoken and written from the 9th to the 14th centuries.
- old-siwash — a conventional designation for any small, provincial college or for such colleges collectively (often preceded by old): students from old Siwash.
- oleographs — Plural form of oleograph.
- onslaughts — Plural form of onslaught.
- open flash — a photographic technique employing a flash fired while the camera shutter is held open.
- 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.
- outlandish — freakishly or grotesquely strange or odd, as appearance, dress, objects, ideas, or practices; bizarre: outlandish clothes; outlandish questions.
- overlavish — expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion: lavish spending.
- overrashly — in an overrash manner
- overslaugh — to pass over or disregard (a person) by giving a promotion, position, etc., to another instead.
- pale horse — a representation of Death, as in literature or the Bible.
- phenoplast — phenolic resin.
- photoflash — flashbulb.
- phytoplasm — protoplasm of a plant or plants.
- plate shop — a shop for cold-forming metal plates.
- play house — to pretend in child's play to be grown-up people with the customary household duties
- playschool — preschool, nursery school
- polyanthus — a hybrid primrose, Primula polyantha.
- polyphasic — having more than two phases.
- postlaunch — relating to or occurring in the period after a launch
- prothallus — prothallium.
- push along — to go away
- rhodoplast — a plastid found in red algae, containing red pigment as well as chlorophyll
- sailor hat — a hat with a flat round crown and fairly broad brim that is rolled upwards
- salt horse — salted beef; salt junk.
- sarcophile — a flesh-eating animal, especially the Tasmanian devil.
- schizoidal — relating to a person with a schizoid personality disorder
- schnozzola — a nose, especially one of unusually large size.
- scholastic — of or relating to schools, scholars, or education: scholastic attainments.
- school age — the age set by law for children to start school attendance.
- school day — any day on which school is conducted.
- schooldays — school-age period
- schooligan — a person of school age who engages in acts of public disorder
- schoolmaid — a schoolgirl
- schoolmarm — a female schoolteacher, especially of the old-time country school type, popularly held to be strict and priggish.
- schoolmate — a companion or associate at school.