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10-letter words containing t, h, e, o, r

  • shortbread — a butter cookie commonly made in thick, pie-shaped wheels or rolled and cut in fancy shapes.
  • shortening — butter, lard, or other fat, used to make pastry, bread, etc., short.
  • shortsheet — to fold a sheet so that it is impossible for a person to stretch their legs when they get into bed (done as a practical joke)
  • shot tower — a tower from the top of which finely divided streams of molten lead are dropped down a central well, breaking up into spherical drops during their fall to be quenched and hardened in a tank of water at the bottom.
  • shotgunner — a person who is skilled with a shotgun
  • showboater — a boat, especially a paddle-wheel steamer, used as a traveling theater.
  • shower tea — kitchen tea.
  • shreveport — a city in NW Louisiana, on the Red River.
  • shrovetide — the three days before Ash Wednesday, once a time of confession and absolution.
  • sisterhood — the state of being a sister.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • spherocyte — an abnormal blood cell
  • 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.
  • stadholder — the chief magistrate of the former republic of the United Provinces of the Netherlands.
  • 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
  • stepmother — the wife of one's father by a later marriage.
  • 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
  • stretchout — a deliberate extension of time for meeting a production quota.
  • strophiole — a small growth on some plants' seeds
  • switcheroo — an unexpected or sudden change or reversal in attitude, character, position, action, etc.
  • switchover — the act or process of changing from one power source, system, etc., to another.
  • tachometer — any of various instruments for measuring or indicating velocity or speed, as of a machine, a river, or the blood.
  • tachometry — any of various instruments for measuring or indicating velocity or speed, as of a machine, a river, or the blood.
  • tchernosem — chernozem.
  • technocrat — a proponent, adherent, or supporter of technocracy.
  • technofear — fear of using technological devices, such as computers; technophobia
  • tenor horn — a musical brass wind instrument with valves; the tenor member of the cornet family.
  • tenterhook — one of the hooks or bent nails that hold cloth stretched on a tenter.
  • tereshkova — Valentina Vladimirovna [vuh-lyin-tyee-nuh vluh-dyi-myee-ruh v-nuh] /və lyɪnˈtyi nə vlə dyɪˈmyi rəv nə/ (Show IPA), born 1937, Soviet cosmonaut: first woman in space 1963.
  • terrachlor — pentachloronitrobenzene.
  • tetrachord — a diatonic series of four tones, the first and last separated by a perfect fourth.
  • tetrathlon — a contest featuring four sporting disciplines
  • the azores — three groups of volcanic islands in the N Atlantic, since 1976 an autonomous region of Portugal. Capital: Ponta Delgada (on São Miguel). Pop: 241 762 (2001). Area: 2335 sq km (901 sq miles)
  • the boards — the acting profession; the stage
  • the bowery — a street in New York City noted for its cheap hotels and bars, frequented by vagrants and drunks
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