10-letter words containing s, p, h, e, n
- punishable — liable to or deserving punishment.
- punishment — the act of punishing.
- push money — a cash inducement provided by a manufacturer or distributor for a retailer or his staff, to reward successful selling
- rangership — the office or position of a ranger
- rephrasing — to phrase again or differently: He rephrased the statement to give it less formality.
- reshipment — the act of reshipping
- rhinoscope — a special instrument used to examine the nasal passages
- sand perch — squirrelfish.
- sapphirine — consisting of sapphire; like sapphire, especially in color.
- 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)
- seamanship — knowledge and skill pertaining to the operation, navigation, management, safety, and maintenance of a ship.
- sextonship — the office of a sexton
- shankpiece — a piece of metal or fiber for giving form to the shank of a shoe.
- shape note — a musical note in which the degree of the scale is indicated by the shape of the note's head.
- sharpen up — hone, refine
- sharpening — the act of making the edge of something very thin or of making its end pointed
- sheepshank — a kind of knot, hitch, or bend made on a rope to shorten it temporarily.
- shell pink — delicate whitish to yellow pink.
- ship money — a tax levied to finance the fitting out of warships: abolished 1640
- shipentine — a four-masted bark.
- shrimp net — a net for catching shrimps
- slash pine — a pine, Pinus elliotii, found in slashes and swamps in the southeastern U.S., yielding a hard, durable wood.
- smartphone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
- snaphaunce — an early flintlock mechanism for igniting a charge of gunpowder in a gun.
- sophoclean — 495?–406? b.c, Greek dramatist.
- sophrosyne — moderation; discretion; prudence.
- sousaphone — a form of bass tuba, similar to the helicon, used in brass bands.
- sphenodont — a member of the Sphenodont group of lizards
- sphenogram — a cuneiform character.
- sphenoidal — relating to the sphenoid bone
- sphenopsid — equisetoid.
- sphinxlike — like the Sphinx; enigmatic or inscrutable
- spit-shine — a shoeshine in which a fluid, such as water, saliva, or lighter fluid, is used to impart a high gloss.
- springhare — a leaping and burrowing rodent, Pedetes capensis, native to southern Africa, having kangaroolike legs and long, pointed ears.
- springhead — a spring or fountainhead from which a stream flows.
- staphyline — having a form resembling a bunch of grapes
- stenograph — any of various keyboard instruments, somewhat resembling a typewriter, used for writing in shorthand, as by means of phonetic or arbitrary symbols.
- stephanite — a mineral, silver antimony sulfide, Ag 5 SbS 4 : an ore of silver.
- stephen ii — died a.d. 757, pope 752–757.
- stephen iv — died a.d. 817, pope 816–817.
- stephen ix — died 1058, pope 1057–58.
- stephen vi — died a.d. 897, pope 896–897.
- stephenson — George, 1781–1848, English inventor and engineer.
- stylophone — a type of battery-powered electronic instrument played with a steel-tipped penlike stylus
- subphrenic — underneath the diaphragm
- sulphonate — a salt or ester of any sulphonic acid containing the ion RSO2O– or the group RSO2O–, R being an organic group
- superhuman — above or beyond what is human; having a higher nature or greater powers than humans have: a superhuman being.
- superphone — a telephone with a high-speed processor that can perform many of the functions of a computer
- sweep hand — a hand, usually a second hand, centrally mounted with the minute and hour hands of a timepiece and reaching to the edge of the dial.
- sylphidine — resembling a sylph