10-letter words containing s, i, n, h
- churnalism — a type of journalism that relies on reusing existing material such as press releases and wire service reports instead of original research, esp as a result of an increased demand for news content
- cinchonism — a condition resulting from an excessive dose of cinchona bark or its alkaloids, characterized chiefly by headache, ringing in the ears, and vomiting
- cinephiles — Plural form of cinephile.
- citizenish — Of the nature of citizens.
- clannishly — In a clannish manner.
- clashingly — In a clashing manner.
- clientship — the state of being a client
- clisthenes — Cleisthenes
- clothespin — A clothespin is the same as a clothes peg.
- clownishly — In a clownish, undignified, or foolish manner; absurdly, ridiculously.
- consisteth — Archaic third-person singular form of consist.
- consulship — an official appointed by the government of one country to look after its commercial interests and the welfare of its citizens in another country.
- cornetfish — any of several slender fishes of the family Fistulariidae, of tropical seas, having an elongated snout and bony plates instead of scales.
- cornishman — a man who is a native or inhabitant of Cornwall
- cosherings — (in Ireland) visits to tenants' houses by a chief and his followers, where they would expect to be fed and accommodated
- countryish — similar to that which is typical of country music
- cousinhood — Relationship as of cousins.
- cousinship — Also called first cousin, full cousin. the son or daughter of an uncle or aunt. See also second cousin, removed (def 2).
- coyishness — the quality of being coyish
- crashingly — extremely; exceedingly
- criosphinx — a sphinx with the head of a ram instead of a human.
- cruikshank — George. 1792–1878, English illustrator and caricaturist
- crunchings — any actions in which things are crunched
- crushingly — You can use crushingly to emphasize the degree of a negative quality.
- crutchings — the wool clipped from a sheep's hindquarters
- cushioning — Cushioning is something soft that protects an object when it hits something.
- dandyishly — in the manner of a dandy
- danish oil — a furniture oil, based on synthetic resins, that gives a soft luster.
- dauphiness — dauphine.
- dauphinois — (of potatoes or other vegetables) sliced and cooked in milk, typically with a topping of cheese.
- deaconship — (in hierarchical churches) a member of the clerical order next below that of a priest.
- dehiscence — a splitting open, as of a pod or anther, along definite structural lines
- dehumanise — to deprive of human qualities or attributes; divest of individuality: Conformity dehumanized him.
- deminished — Simple past tense and past participle of deminish.
- dendrophis — a genus of harmless tree-dwelling snake, of which varieties can be found in South America, India, Australia, Africa, and North America
- denis howe — (person) Denis B. Howe (1960 -) Editor of the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
- deshelling — a hard outer covering of an animal, as the hard case of a mollusk, or either half of the case of a bivalve mollusk.
- devonshire — 8th Duke of, title of Spencer Compton Cavendish. 1833–1908, British politician, also known (1858–91) as Lord Hartington. He led the Liberal Party (1874–80) and left it to found the Liberal Unionist Party (1886)
- dianthuses — Plural form of dianthus.
- diaphanous — Diaphanous cloth is very thin and almost transparent.
- diaphonics — The doctrine of refracted sound; diacoustics.
- diaphonous — Misspelling of diaphanous.
- diminished — to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
- diminishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of diminish.
- diophantus — 3rd century ad, Greek mathematician, noted for his treatise on the theory of numbers, Arithmetica
- diphosgene — a colorless liquid, C 2 Cl 4 O 2 , usually derived from methyl formate or methyl chloroformate by chlorination: a World War I poison gas now used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- diphthongs — Phonetics. an unsegmentable, gliding speech sound varying continuously in phonetic quality but held to be a single sound or phoneme and identified by its apparent beginning and ending sound, as the oi- sound of toy or boil.
- disburthen — (obsolete) disburden.
- disenchain — to set (a person) free from restraint
- disenchant — to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.