10-letter words containing t, e, r, h
- shrimp net — a net for catching shrimps
- shrovetide — the three days before Ash Wednesday, once a time of confession and absolution.
- shutterbug — an amateur photographer, especially one who is greatly devoted to the hobby.
- shuttering — a solid or louvered movable cover for a window.
- sight-read — Someone who can sight-read can play or sing music from a printed sheet the first time they see it, without practising it beforehand.
- sisterhood — the state of being a sister.
- sixth year — (in Scotland) the most senior class in a secondary school to which pupils, usually above the legal leaving age, may proceed to take sixth-year studies, retake or take additional Highers, etc
- slathering — to spread or apply thickly: to slather butter on toast.
- slaughtery — a slaughterhouse
- 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.
- sloth bear — a coarse-haired, long-snouted bear, Ursus ursinus, of India and Indochina: now rare.
- smart home — a dwelling equipped with systems and appliances that can be operated remotely using a computer or mobile phone
- smartphone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
- smithereen — to break into small fragments
- smoothbore — (of firearms) having a bore that is smooth; not rifled.
- smothering — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
- solar-heat — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
- soothsayer — a person who professes to foretell events.
- southerner — a native or inhabitant of the south.
- southernly — southerly.
- 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.
- sphericity — a spherical state or form.
- spherocyte — an abnormal blood cell
- spherulite — a rounded aggregate of radiating crystals found in obsidian and other glassy igneous rocks.
- 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.
- sporophyte — the form of a plant in the alternation of generations that produces asexual spores.
- spycatcher — a person who works in counterintelligence to detect enemy espionage activities
- st. helier — a British island in the English Channel: the largest of the Channel Islands. 44 sq. mi. (116 sq. km). Capital: St. Helier.
- stadholder — the chief magistrate of the former republic of the United Provinces of the Netherlands.
- star shell — a shell that bursts in the air and produces a bright light to illuminate enemy positions.
- starchedly — in a starched manner
- starfished — lying with arms and legs outstretched; spread-eagled
- stealthier — done, characterized, or acting by stealth; furtive: stealthy footsteps.
- 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
- stepfather — the husband of one's mother by a later marriage.
- stepmother — the wife of one's father by a later marriage.
- sternsheet — the part of an open boat near the stern
- sternwheel — a paddle wheel at the stern of a vessel.
- stockhorse — a horse or pony used in herding cattle.
- stonebrash — a type of subsoil consisting of small or broken stones or rock
- stonehorse — a stallion or uncastrated male horse
- storehouse — a building in which things are stored.
- stoutherie — theft
- stouthrief — theft using force or violence
- straighten — make straight
- straighter — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- strathspey — a slow Scottish dance in quadruple meter.
- strengthen — to make stronger; give strength to.