10-letter words containing s, p, h, e, r
- post horse — a horse kept, as at a station on a post road, for the use of persons riding post or for hire by travelers.
- powerhouse — Electricity. a generating station.
- pre-school — Pre-school is used to describe things relating to the care and education of children before they reach the age when they have to go to school.
- preachings — the act or practice of a person who preaches.
- preharvest — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- prehensile — adapted for seizing, grasping, or taking hold of something: a prehensile tail.
- prehension — the act of seizing or grasping.
- prehistory — human history in the period before recorded events, known mainly through archaeological discoveries, study, research, etc.; history of prehistoric humans.
- prepublish — to publish in advance of a scheduled date.
- preshipped — a vessel, especially a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines.
- prestretch — to draw out or extend (oneself, a body, limbs, wings, etc.) to the full length or extent (often followed by out): to stretch oneself out on the ground.
- priestfish — blue rockfish.
- priesthood — the condition or office of a priest.
- princeship — a nonreigning male member of a royal family.
- 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.
- pronephros — one of the three embryonic excretory organs of vertebrates, which becomes the functional kidney of certain primitive fishes.
- prophesied — to foretell or predict.
- 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.
- publishers — a publishing company
- pursership — the position of purser
- rangership — the office or position of a ranger
- readership — the people who read or are thought to read a particular book, newspaper, magazine, etc.: The periodical has a dwindling readership.
- redispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- rephrasing — to phrase again or differently: He rephrased the statement to give it less formality.
- repurchase — to buy again; regain by purchase.
- reshipment — the act of reshipping
- rhapsodize — to talk with extravagant enthusiasm.
- rhinoscope — a special instrument used to examine the nasal passages
- rose aphid — a dark green aphid, Macrosiphum rosae, that feeds on roses and related plants.
- russophile — a person who is friendly to, admires, or prefers Russia or Russian customs, institutions, etc.
- russophobe — a person who hates or fears Russia or the Russians.
- sand perch — squirrelfish.
- sapphirine — consisting of sapphire; like sapphire, especially in color.
- saprophyte — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- sarcophile — a flesh-eating animal, especially the Tasmanian devil.
- schipperke — one of a Belgian breed of small dogs having erect ears and a thick, black coat, originally used as a watchdog on boats in the Netherlands and Belgium.
- schumpeter — Joseph Alois [uh-lois] /əˈlɔɪs/ (Show IPA), 1883–1950, U.S. economist, born in Austria.
- scrap heap — a pile of old, discarded material, as metal.
- scrap-heap — a pile of old, discarded material, as metal.
- 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)
- semaphoric — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
- semisphere — shaped like half a sphere; hemispheric.
- sepulchral — of, relating to, or serving as a tomb.
- serigraphy — a print made by the silkscreen process.
- share shop — A share shop is a shop or Internet website where members of the public can buy shares in companies.
- sharp-eyed — having keen sight or perception.
- sharpen up — hone, refine