10-letter words containing t, e, l, h
- schalstein — a slate-like rock formed by shearing basaltic or andesitic tuff or lava
- schnitzler — Arthur [ahr-ther;; German ahr-too r] /ˈɑr θər;; German ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1862–1931, Austrian dramatist and novelist.
- school tie — old school tie.
- schoolmate — a companion or associate at school.
- schooltide — schooldays
- schooltime — the period during which schools are open
- scythelike — an agricultural implement consisting of a long, curving blade fastened at an angle to a handle, for cutting grass, grain, etc., by hand.
- seethingly — to surge or foam as if boiling.
- 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.
- semilethal — a semilethal gene
- set chisel — a chisel having a broad edge at the end of a tapered shaft; used to cut the heads off bolts, rivets, etc.
- shackleton — Sir Ernest Henry, 1874–1922, English explorer of the Antarctic.
- shallowest — of little depth; not deep: shallow water.
- shapetools — (tool, programming) A code management system for Unix from The Technical University of Berlin.
- sheathbill — either of two white sea birds, Chionis alba or C. minor, of the colder parts of the Southern Hemisphere: so called from the horny sheath covering the base of the upper bill.
- sheathless — lacking a sheath or a covering
- sheet film — a flat piece of film cut to a required size before being loaded into a camera.
- sheet pile — one of a number of piles, usually flat, driven side by side to retain earth, etc., or to prevent seepage into an excavation.
- sheetmetal — metal in sheets or thin plates.
- shell star — a type of star showing bright emission lines superimposed on its normal absorption spectrum, presumably caused by a gaseous shell around the star.
- shell suit — A shell suit is a casual suit which is made of thin nylon.
- shellycoat — a mythical creature dressed in shells who haunts rivers and streams
- shetlander — a native or inhabitant of Shetland
- shibboleth — a peculiarity of pronunciation, behavior, mode of dress, etc., that distinguishes a particular class or set of persons.
- shoplifter — a person who steals goods from the shelves or displays of a retail store while posing as a customer.
- short line — a bus or rail route covering only a limited distance.
- short sale — an act or instance of selling short.
- short-life — not designed to last
- shot angle — the angle from which a shot is taken
- shot metal — lead hardened with antimony and arsenic, used to manufacture shot for cartridges.
- shovel hat — a hat with a broad brim turned up at the sides and projecting with a shovellike curve in front and behind; worn by some ecclesiastics, chiefly in England.
- shrievalty — the office, term, or jurisdiction of a sheriff.
- side-light — an item of incidental information.
- silhouette — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
- skaithless — without injury or damage
- sketchable — suitable for being sketched.
- skylighted — having or illuminated by a skylight.
- slathering — to spread or apply thickly: to slather butter on toast.
- slaughtery — a slaughterhouse
- sleep with — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
- sleepshirt — a shirtlike garment, usually knee-length or shorter, worn for sleeping.
- slithering — to slide down or along a surface, especially unsteadily, from side to side, or with some friction or noise: The box slithered down the chute.
- slop chest — a supply of clothing, boots, tobacco, and other personal goods for sale to the crew of a ship during a voyage.
- sloth bear — a coarse-haired, long-snouted bear, Ursus ursinus, of India and Indochina: now rare.
- smithfield — a town in N Rhode Island.
- soft-shell — Also, soft-shelled. having a soft, flexible, or fragile shell, as a crab that has recently molted.
- solar-heat — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
- south pole — the region of a magnet toward which the lines of magnetic induction converge (south pole) or from which the lines of induction diverge (north pole)
- southernly — southerly.