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

  • ruthenious — containing bivalent ruthenium.
  • sailor hat — a hat with a flat round crown and fairly broad brim that is rolled upwards
  • salt horse — salted beef; salt junk.
  • samothrace — a Greek island in the NE Aegean.
  • saprophyte — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
  • saprotroph — any organism, esp a fungus or bacterium, that lives and feeds on dead organic matter
  • schwarzlot — a type of black decoration on German glassware and ceramics that was popular in the 17th and 18th centuries
  • scoresheet — a sheet of paper on which scores are recorded
  • screenshot — Also called screen capture. a copy or image of what is seen on a computer screen at a given time: Save the screenshot as a graphics file.
  • scunthorpe — a town in E England, in North Lincolnshire unitary authority, Lincolnshire: developed rapidly after the discovery of local iron ore in the late 19th century; iron and steel industries have declined. Pop: 72 660 (2001)
  • search out — hunt for, seek
  • 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.
  • send forth — to be a source of; cause to appear; give out or forth; produce, emit, utter, etc.
  • set theory — the branch of mathematics that deals with relations between sets.
  • shirtfront — front of a shirt
  • shoestring — a shoelace.
  • shop front — A shop front is the outside part of a shop which faces the street, including the door and windows.
  • shop right — the right of an employer to use an employee's invention without compensating the employee for the use, in cases where the invention was made at the place of and during the hours of employment.
  • 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.
  • shorefront — land along a shore.
  • short bill — a bill of exchange that is payable at sight, on demand, or within less than ten days
  • short code — (language)   (SHORTCODE) A pseudocode interpreter for mathematics problems, designed by John Mauchly in 1949 to execute on Eckert and Mauchly's BINAC and later on UNIVAC I and II. Short Code was possibly the first attempt at a high level language.
  • short fuse — a quick temper: A person with a short fuse has to be handled diplomatically.
  • short game — the aspect of golf considered in relation to the ability of a player to hit medium or short shots, as chip shots, pitch shots, and putts, with accuracy. Compare long game (def 1).
  • short head — a distance shorter than the length of a horse's head
  • short iron — a club, as a pitcher, pitching niblick, or niblick, with a short shaft and an iron head the face of which has great slope, for hitting approach shots.
  • short line — a bus or rail route covering only a limited distance.
  • short loin — the front part of a loin of beef, from the ribs to the sirloin
  • short odds — (in betting) an almost even chance
  • short rate — a charge, proportionately higher than the annual rate, made for insurance issued or continued in force by the insured for less than one year.
  • short ream — 480 sheets of paper
  • short ribs — the rib ends of beef from the forequarter, next to the plate
  • short sale — an act or instance of selling short.
  • 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 wave — Electricity. a radio wave, shorter than that used in AM broadcasting, corresponding to frequencies of over 1600 kilohertz: used for long-distance reception or transmission.
  • short-arse — a small man
  • short-form — noting or relating to journalistic content or a genre of journalism characterized by short articles.
  • short-hand — a method of rapid handwriting using simple strokes, abbreviations, or symbols that designate letters, words, or phrases (distinguished from longhand).
  • short-haul — of, relating to, or engaged in transportation over short distances: a short-haul trucking firm.
  • short-laid — hard-laid.
  • short-life — not designed to last
  • short-list — to put on a short list.
  • short-stay — available or valid for a limited time
  • short-term — covering or applying to a relatively short period of time.
  • short-wave — Electricity. a radio wave, shorter than that used in AM broadcasting, corresponding to frequencies of over 1600 kilohertz: used for long-distance reception or transmission.
  • shortboard — a type of surfboard that is shorter than standard
  • shortbread — a butter cookie commonly made in thick, pie-shaped wheels or rolled and cut in fancy shapes.
  • shortcrust — light crumbly pastry
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