10-letter words containing d, e, s, a
- scanderbeg — (George Castriota) 1403?–68, Albanian chief and revolutionary leader.
- scapulated — (of a raven) with white feathers across the scapular region
- scar-faced — with a face marked by a scar or scars.
- scarabaeid — belonging or pertaining to the Scarabaeidae, a family of lamellicorn beetles, including the scarabs, dung beetles, June bugs, and cockchafers.
- scherzando — (a musical direction) playful; sportive.
- score card — sport: card for recording results
- score draw — A score draw is the result of a football match in which both teams score at least one goal, and they score the same number of goals.
- scoreboard — a large, usually rectangular board in a ballpark, sports arena, or the like, that shows the score of a contest and often other relevant facts and figures, as the count of balls and strikes on a baseball batter.
- scorpaenid — belonging or pertaining to the Scorpaenidae, a family of marine fishes with spiny fins, including the rockfishes, scorpionfishes, and lionfishes.
- scottsdale — a city in central Arizona, near Phoenix.
- scrapegood — a stingy person; a miser
- screenland — filmdom.
- scrollhead — billethead.
- scuba dive — go deep-sea swimming
- scuba-dive — to descend and swim underwater using a scuba device.
- sea cradle — chiton (def 1).
- sea dahlia — a garden plant, Coreopsis maritima, of the southwestern coast of North America, having long-stalked, solitary, yellow flower heads nearly 3 inches (7.6 cm) wide.
- sea ladder — a set of rungs fixed to the side of a vessel, forming a ladder from the weather deck to the water line.
- sea spider — any member of the arthropod class Pycnogonida, marine invertebrates with eight long walking legs attached to a small body consisting of a cephalothorax and vestigial abdomen.
- search dog — a dog trained to assist rescue workers in finding people buried under rubble by detection by smell
- searedness — the state of being seared or unfeeling
- second man — a person who assists the driver in crewing a locomotive
- secondhand — not directly known or experienced; obtained from others or from books: Most of our knowledge is secondhand.
- sedateness — calm, quiet, or composed; undisturbed by passion or excitement: a sedate party; a sedate horse.
- sedimental — of, relating to, or of the nature of sediment.
- seed coral — coral fragments used for jewelry.
- seed pearl — a pearl weighing less than ¼ grain.
- seed plant — a seed-bearing plant; spermatophyte.
- seferiades — Giorgos Stylianou [yawr-gaws stee-lyah-noo] /ˈyɔr gɔs ˌsti lyɑˈnu/ (Show IPA), (Giorgos Seferis) 1900–71, Greek poet and diplomat: Nobel Prize in literature 1963.
- segregated — characterized by or practicing racial segregation: a segregated school system.
- seguidilla — Prosody. a stanza of four to seven lines with a distinctive rhythmic pattern.
- seleucidan — Seleucid.
- self-guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
- self-named — a word or a combination of words by which a person, place, or thing, a body or class, or any object of thought is designated, called, or known.
- self-paced — (of an educational system, course, etc.) done or designed to be accomplished at the student's own speed: self-paced instruction.
- sellafield — the site of an atomic power station and nuclear reprocessing plant in NW England, in W Cumbria
- semi-naked — being without clothing or covering; nude: naked children swimming in the lake.
- semi-nomad — a member of a people or tribe that has no permanent abode but moves about from place to place, usually seasonally and often following a traditional route or circuit according to the state of the pasturage or food supply.
- semifeudal — partly feudal
- semisacred — partly or somewhat sacred; sacred to a limited degree; having some characteristics of the sacred
- send a fax — If you send a fax, you send a copy of a document from one fax machine to another.
- senna pods — the dried fruits of any of these plants, used as a cathartic and laxative
- septicidal — (of a capsule) dehiscing lengthwise along a septum.
- serenading — a complimentary performance of vocal or instrumental music in the open air at night, as by a lover under the window of his lady.
- serialised — to publish in serial form.
- serradilla — a variety of clover, Ornithopus sativus, used as fodder for cattle
- sex addict — a person who is addicted to engaging in sexual activity
- sex-crazed — unhealthily obsessed with sexual activity
- sexualised — to render sexual; endow with sexual characteristics.
- shade deck — a light deck supported by stanchions.