10-letter words containing a, l, o, t, s
- soul patch — a small patch of facial hair below the centre of the lower lip and above the chin
- soup plate — a deep, concave plate used especially for serving soup.
- spallation — a nuclear reaction in which several nucleons are released from the nucleus of an atom.
- speculator — a person who is engaged in commercial or financial speculation.
- splash out — If you splash out on something, especially on a luxury, you buy it even though it costs a lot of money.
- splay-foot — a broad, flat foot, especially one turned outward.
- spoliation — the act or an instance of plundering or despoiling.
- spoliative — blood-diminishing
- spot plate — a flat ceramic or plastic plate containing small wells on which spot tests are made.
- stable boy — A stable boy is a young man who works in a stable looking after the horses.
- stableford — a scoring system in which points are awarded according to the number of strokes taken at each hole, whereby a hole completed in one stroke over par counts as one point, a hole completed in level par counts as two points, etc
- stadholder — the chief magistrate of the former republic of the United Provinces of the Netherlands.
- standalone — self-contained and able to operate without other hardware or software.
- staphyloma — a condition in which the sclera or cornea of the eye projects outwards due to inflammation
- star cloud — a cloudlike patch of light on the celestial sphere, consisting of a multitude of stars.
- starflower — any of several plants having starlike flowers, as the star-of-Bethlehem or a plant belonging to the genus Trientalis of the primrose family.
- statoblast — (in certain bryozoans) an asexually produced group of cells encased in a chitinous covering that can survive unfavorable conditions, as freezing or drought, and germinate to produce a new colony.
- statolatry — the act or practice of idolizing the state
- staurolite — a mineral, basic iron aluminum silicate, Fe 2 Al 2 O 7 (SiO 4) 4 (OH), occurring in brown to black prismatic crystals, which are often twinned in the form of a cross.
- stay loose — free or released from fastening or attachment: a loose end.
- steam coal — coal with relatively high sulfur content, suited for generating steam but not for coking.
- steatocele — a fatty tumour located in the scrotum
- stillatory — a still or distillery where liquid is distilled
- stimulator — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- stomachful — the amount one's stomach can hold
- stool ball — a game resembling cricket, still played by girls and women in Sussex, England
- stoop ball — a game resembling baseball, played in a street, schoolyard, or other confined paved area, in which a ball is thrown forcibly against a stairway or wall so that it rebounds into the air, bases and runs being awarded depending on the number of bounces the ball takes before being caught by the opposing player or team.
- stop plank — a board or boarding that is placed along the top of a dam to increase its height and capacity
- stove coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 1 5/8 to 2 7/16 (about 4 to 6 cm), intermediate between egg coal and chestnut coal.
- strandwolf — brown hyena.
- straw poll — an unofficial vote taken to obtain an indication of the general trend of opinion on a particular issue.
- streamflow — the water that flows in a specific stream site, especially its volume and rate of flow.
- strobilate — to undergo strobilation
- stylograph — a fountain pen in which the writing point is a fine, hollow tube instead of a nib.
- suaveolent — fragrant or sweet-smelling
- subglottal — of or relating to the glottis.
- suboptimal — being below an optimal level or standard.
- suborbital — (of a spacecraft) not in orbit; not achieving an altitude and velocity resulting in a ballistic trajectory circling the earth at least once.
- subtotally — less than totally, incompletely
- sufflation — to inflate.
- sulphonate — a salt or ester of any sulphonic acid containing the ion RSO2O– or the group RSO2O–, R being an organic group
- suntan oil — an oil that you rub into your skin to protect it from the sun's harmful UV rays
- tablespoon — a spoon larger than a teaspoon or a dessert spoon, used in serving food at the table and as a standard measuring unit in recipes.
- tall story — far-fetched account
- tanglesome — tangled
- teleostean — a fish of the order Teleostei
- telomerase — an enzyme, active chiefly in tumors and reproductive cells, that causes telomeres to lengthen: facilitates cell division and may account for the immortality of cancer cells.
- telsontail — any of several minute, wingless, primitive insects of the order Protura, having a cone-shaped head with sucking and piercing mouthparts and no eyes or antennae, inhabiting damp soil or decaying organic matter.
- tesla coil — an air-core transformer used to produce high voltages of high-frequency alternating currents.
- tetrapolis — a conglomeration of four cities