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

  • southerner — a native or inhabitant of the south.
  • southernly — southerly.
  • southfield — a city in SE Michigan, W of Detroit.
  • space shot — the launch of a spacecraft and its subsequent flight in space
  • speleothem — a natural structure within a cave
  • sphenodont — a member of the Sphenodont group of lizards
  • spherocyte — an abnormal blood cell
  • spirochete — any of various spiral-shaped motile bacteria of the family Spirochaetaceae, certain species, as Treponema, Leptospira, and Borrelia, being pathogenic to humans and other animals, and other species being free-living, saprophytic, or parasitic.
  • sporophyte — the form of a plant in the alternation of generations that produces asexual spores.
  • spot check — impromptu inspection
  • spot-check — to examine or investigate by means of a spot check.
  • st. joseph — a city in NW Missouri, on the Missouri River.
  • stadholder — the chief magistrate of the former republic of the United Provinces of the Netherlands.
  • stagecoach — a horse-drawn coach that formerly traveled regularly over a fixed route with passengers, parcels, etc.
  • statehouse — the building in which the legislature of a state sits; the capitol of a state.
  • steakhouse — a restaurant specializing in beefsteak.
  • stenograph — any of various keyboard instruments, somewhat resembling a typewriter, used for writing in shorthand, as by means of phonetic or arbitrary symbols.
  • stenotherm — an organism that is only able to live within a narrow parameter of temperatures
  • stephenson — George, 1781–1848, English inventor and engineer.
  • stepmother — the wife of one's father by a later marriage.
  • stillhouse — a distillery or place where the distilling process takes place
  • stishovite — a rare polymorph of quartz, SiO 2 , formed under very high pressure, as by meteorite impact.
  • stockhorse — a horse or pony used in herding cattle.
  • stoke-hold — Also, stokehold [stohk-hohld] /ˈstoʊkˌhoʊld/ (Show IPA). fireroom.
  • stonebrash — a type of subsoil consisting of small or broken stones or rock
  • stonehenge — a prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England, consisting of a large circle of megaliths surrounding a smaller circle and four massive trilithons; dating to late Neolithic and early Bronze Age times (c1700–1200 b.c.) and believed to have been connected with a sun cult or used for astronomical observations.
  • stonehorse — a stallion or uncastrated male horse
  • storehouse — a building in which things are stored.
  • stoutherie — theft
  • stouthrief — theft using force or violence
  • stretchout — a deliberate extension of time for meeting a production quota.
  • strophiole — a small growth on some plants' seeds
  • stylophone — a type of battery-powered electronic instrument played with a steel-tipped penlike stylus
  • sulphonate — a salt or ester of any sulphonic acid containing the ion RSO2O– or the group RSO2O–, R being an organic group
  • sweat-shop — a shop employing workers at low wages, for long hours, and under poor conditions.
  • sweathouse — (especially among North American Indians) a special building used for cleansing and purifying one's body by sweating, in which heated water is poured over heated stones to produce steam.
  • sweet shop — a store that sells candy.
  • sweet-shop — a store that sells candy.
  • switcheroo — an unexpected or sudden change or reversal in attitude, character, position, action, etc.
  • switchover — the act or process of changing from one power source, system, etc., to another.
  • tchernosem — chernozem.
  • teichopsia — a temporary visual impairment associated with migraine
  • tereshkova — Valentina Vladimirovna [vuh-lyin-tyee-nuh vluh-dyi-myee-ruh v-nuh] /və lyɪnˈtyi nə vlə dyɪˈmyi rəv nə/ (Show IPA), born 1937, Soviet cosmonaut: first woman in space 1963.
  • the azores — three groups of volcanic islands in the N Atlantic, since 1976 an autonomous region of Portugal. Capital: Ponta Delgada (on São Miguel). Pop: 241 762 (2001). Area: 2335 sq km (901 sq miles)
  • the boards — the acting profession; the stage
  • the chores — housework
  • the comics — the comic strips in newspapers, etc
  • the dozens — a form of verbal play in which the participants exchange witty, ribald taunts and insults, often specif. about each other's mother
  • the exodus — the departure of the Israelites from Egypt led by Moses
  • the forces — the armed services of a nation
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