10-letter words containing t, e, s, h, i
- 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.
- sheep tick — a wingless, bloodsucking, dipterous insect, Melophagus ovinus, that is parasitic on sheep.
- 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.
- shell suit — A shell suit is a casual suit which is made of thin nylon.
- shibboleth — a peculiarity of pronunciation, behavior, mode of dress, etc., that distinguishes a particular class or set of persons.
- shipentine — a four-masted bark.
- 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.
- shirtdress — shirtwaist (def 2).
- shirtmaker — a person who makes shirts.
- shit-faced — very drunk.
- shitkicker — an unsophisticated farmer, cowboy, or other rural person; country person.
- shittiness — inferior or contemptible.
- shoestring — a shoelace.
- shopfitter — a worker who makes and installs fittings for commercial premises
- 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 time — a period or schedule during which the number of working hours is reduced: The recession has put most of the manufacturing plants on short time.
- short-life — not designed to last
- shortening — butter, lard, or other fat, used to make pastry, bread, etc., short.
- shot noise — random fluctuations in the emission of electrons from a hot cathode, causing a hissing or sputtering sound (shot noise) in an audio amplifier and causing snow on a television screen.
- shrievalty — the office, term, or jurisdiction of a sheriff.
- shrimp net — a net for catching shrimps
- shrovetide — the three days before Ash Wednesday, once a time of confession and absolution.
- shuttering — a solid or louvered movable cover for a window.
- side-light — an item of incidental information.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- skaithless — without injury or damage
- sketchiest — like a sketch; giving only outlines or essentials. Synonyms: cursory, rough, meager, crude.
- skylighted — having or illuminated by a skylight.
- slathering — to spread or apply thickly: to slather butter on toast.
- 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.
- smithereen — to break into small fragments
- smithfield — a town in N Rhode Island.
- smoketight — (of a door, etc) not allowing smoke to pass through
- smothering — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
- snow-white — white as snow.
- somethings — Informal. a person or thing of some value or consequence: He is really something! This writer has something to say and she says it well.
- southfield — a city in SE Michigan, W of Detroit.
- 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.
- 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.
- spit-shine — a shoeshine in which a fluid, such as water, saliva, or lighter fluid, is used to impart a high gloss.