10-letter words containing s, o, t, h, e
- priesthood — the condition or office of a priest.
- prometheus — a Titan, the father of Deucalion and brother of Atlas and Epimetheus, who taught humankind various arts and was sometimes said to have shaped humans out of clay and endowed them with the spark of life. For having stolen fire from Olympus and given it to humankind in defiance of Zeus, he was chained to a rock where an eagle daily tore at his liver, until he was finally released by Hercules.
- prophetess — a woman who speaks for God or a deity, or by divine inspiration.
- prostheses — a device, either external or implanted, that substitutes for or supplements a missing or defective part of the body.
- prosthesis — a device, either external or implanted, that substitutes for or supplements a missing or defective part of the body.
- prosthetic — of or relating to an artificial body part or prosthesis: He was fitted for a prosthetic arm.
- psilophyte — any plant that is adapted to grow well in the dry savannah
- rawsthorne — Alan. 1905–71, English composer, whose works include three symphonies, several concertos, and a set of Symphonic Studies (1939)
- restharrow — a low, pink-flowered European shrub, Ononis spinosa, of the legume family, having tough roots that hinder the plow or harrow.
- rheostatic — an adjustable resistor so constructed that its resistance may be changed without opening the circuit in which it is connected, thereby controlling the current in the circuit.
- rhinestone — an artificial gem of paste, often cut to resemble a diamond.
- rifle shot — sound of shotgun fire
- ruthenious — containing bivalent ruthenium.
- salt horse — salted beef; salt junk.
- samothrace — a Greek island in the NE Aegean.
- saprophyte — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- school tie — old school tie.
- schoolmate — a companion or associate at school.
- schooltide — schooldays
- schooltime — the period during which schools are open
- scoresheet — a sheet of paper on which scores are recorded
- scotch egg — British Cookery. a hard-boiled egg encased in sausage meat, breaded, and deep-fried.
- screenshot — Also called screen capture. a copy or image of what is seen on a computer screen at a given time: Save the screenshot as a graphics file.
- scunthorpe — a town in E England, in North Lincolnshire unitary authority, Lincolnshire: developed rapidly after the discovery of local iron ore in the late 19th century; iron and steel industries have declined. Pop: 72 660 (2001)
- search out — hunt for, seek
- 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.
- send forth — to be a source of; cause to appear; give out or forth; produce, emit, utter, etc.
- set theory — the branch of mathematics that deals with relations between sets.
- sextonship — the office of a sexton
- shackleton — Sir Ernest Henry, 1874–1922, English explorer of the Antarctic.
- shallowest — of little depth; not deep: shallow water.
- shape note — a musical note in which the degree of the scale is indicated by the shape of the note's head.
- shapetools — (tool, programming) A code management system for Unix from The Technical University of Berlin.
- sheet down — (of rain) to fall heavily in sheets
- sheet home — to tighten the sheets of (a square sail) until it is set as flat as possible
- shellycoat — a mythical creature dressed in shells who haunts rivers and streams
- shibboleth — a peculiarity of pronunciation, behavior, mode of dress, etc., that distinguishes a particular class or set of persons.
- shock tube — an apparatus in which a gas is heated to very high temperatures by means of a shock wave, usually for spectroscopic investigation of the natures and reactions of the resulting radicals and excited molecules
- shock-test — to test (equipment or matériel) for resistance to sudden impact or stress.
- 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.