10-letter words containing s, p, h, e, r
- sharpening — the act of making the edge of something very thin or of making its end pointed
- sheep farm — place where sheep are raised
- sheep race — a single-file walkway for sheep at the entrance to a sheep-dip
- sheepberry — a North American shrub or small tree, Viburnum lentago, of the honeysuckle family, having flat-topped clusters of small white flowers and edible, berrylike black drupes.
- sheeptrack — a small natural terrace on a hillside
- shellproof — protected against the explosive effect of shells or bombs.
- shepherded — a person who herds, tends, and guards sheep.
- ship-bread — hardtack.
- shipfitter — a person who forms plates, shapes, etc., of ship according to plans, patterns, or molds.
- shipmaster — a person who commands a ship; master; captain.
- shopfitter — a worker who makes and installs fittings for commercial premises
- shopkeeper — a retail merchant or tradesman; a person who owns or operates a small store or shop.
- shoplifter — a person who steals goods from the shelves or displays of a retail store while posing as a customer.
- shopwalker — a floorwalker.
- shower cap — a plastic cap worn in the shower to keep the hair dry
- shreveport — a city in NW Louisiana, on the Red River.
- shrimp net — a net for catching shrimps
- shrimplike — any of several small, long-tailed, chiefly marine crustaceans of the decapod suborder Natania, certain species of which are used as food.
- shropshire — a former county in W England, now part of Salop.
- skeuomorph — an ornament or design on an object copied from a form of the object when made from another material or by other techniques, as an imitation metal rivet mark found on handles of prehistoric pottery.
- sleepshirt — a shirtlike garment, usually knee-length or shorter, worn for sleeping.
- smartphone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
- sophrosyne — moderation; discretion; prudence.
- sphalerite — a very common mineral, zinc sulfide, ZnS, usually containing some iron and a little cadmium, occurring in yellow, brown, or black crystals or cleavable masses with resinous luster: the principal ore of zinc and cadmium; blackjack.
- sphenogram — a cuneiform character.
- sphereless — having no sphere
- spherelike — relating to or resembling spheres
- sphericity — a spherical state or form.
- spherocyte — an abnormal blood cell
- spheroidal — pertaining to a spheroid or spheroids.
- spherulite — a rounded aggregate of radiating crystals found in obsidian and other glassy igneous rocks.
- spike-rush — any perennial plant of the temperate cyperaceous genus Eleocharis, occurring esp by ponds, and having underground stems, narrow leaves, and small flowers
- 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.
- spirophore — a device for producing artificial respiration
- sporophore — a fungus hypha specialized to bear spores.
- sporophyte — the form of a plant in the alternation of generations that produces asexual spores.
- spreaghery — the activity or crime of raiding cattle
- 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.
- spur wheel — spur gear.
- spycatcher — a person who works in counterintelligence to detect enemy espionage activities
- stenograph — any of various keyboard instruments, somewhat resembling a typewriter, used for writing in shorthand, as by means of phonetic or arbitrary symbols.
- stepfather — the husband of one's mother by a later marriage.
- stepmother — the wife of one's father by a later marriage.
- strathspey — a slow Scottish dance in quadruple meter.
- strophiole — a small growth on some plants' seeds
- subchapter — a subdivision especially of a body of laws.
- subphrenic — underneath the diaphragm
- sulphurate — to combine or treat with sulphur or a sulphur compound
- sulphurise — to combine, treat, or impregnate with sulfur.