10-letter words containing s, o, t, h
- spatchcock — a fowl that has been dressed and split open for grilling.
- 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.
- spitchcock — an eel that is split, cut into pieces, and broiled or fried.
- splash out — If you splash out on something, especially on a luxury, you buy it even though it costs a lot of money.
- sporophyte — the form of a plant in the alternation of generations that produces asexual spores.
- sport fish — a type of fish that is prized for the sport it gives the angler in its capture rather than for its value as food.
- spot check — impromptu inspection
- spot-check — to examine or investigate by means of a spot check.
- st. john's — an island state comprising Antigua and two smaller islands: a member of the former West Indies Associated States; formerly a British crown colony; gained independence 1981. 171 sq. mi. (442 sq. km). Capital: St. John's.
- st. joseph — a city in NW Missouri, on the Missouri River.
- st. thomas — Saint Thomas ("the Angelic Doctor") 1225?–74, Italian scholastic philosopher: a major theologian of the Roman Catholic Church.
- 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.
- stanchions — an upright bar, beam, post, or support, as in a window, stall, ship, etc.
- staphyloma — a condition in which the sclera or cornea of the eye projects outwards due to inflammation
- 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.
- sticharion — a white tunic of silk or linen, corresponding to the alb, worn by deacons, priests, and bishops.
- stichology — metrical theory or the science of poetic metres
- 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.
- stitchwork — embroidery or needlework.
- stitchwort — any of several plants belonging to the genus Stellaria, of the pink family, having white flowers.
- stochastic — of or relating to a process involving a randomly determined sequence of observations each of which is considered as a sample of one element from a probability distribution.
- stock shot — Movies. any of various prefilmed shots, as from newsreels or travelogues, available from specialized film libraries for inserting into a film to establish locale, atmosphere, etc.
- stock whip — a whip with a long lash and a short handle, as used to herd cattle
- stockhorse — a horse or pony used in herding cattle.
- stoke-hold — Also, stokehold [stohk-hohld] /ˈstoʊkˌhoʊld/ (Show IPA). fireroom.
- stomachful — the amount one's stomach can hold
- stomachous — resentful, sullen, obstinate
- 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
- stracchino — a soft cheese from North Italy
- stretchout — a deliberate extension of time for meeting a production quota.
- strip show — a form of entertainment in which one or more people take off their clothes in a titillating and erotic manner, often to music
- stronghold — a well-fortified place; fortress.
- strophiole — a small growth on some plants' seeds
- strophulus — a papular eruption of the skin, especially in infants, occurring in several forms and usually harmless.
- struthious — resembling or related to the ostriches or other ratite birds.