10-letter words containing d, e, t, r, s
- stereocard — a card showing two stereoscopic pictures
- sterilized — Something that is sterilized has been made free from bacteria or other microorganisms.
- sternboard — a backward motion of a boat
- sternwards — towards the stern; astern
- stewardess — a woman flight attendant.
- stewarding — a person who manages another's property or financial affairs; one who administers anything as the agent of another or others.
- stir-fried — stir-fried.
- stockrider — a cowboy.
- stop order — an order from a customer to a broker to sell a security if the market price drops below a designated level.
- store card — a token bearing the name of a business, often exchangeable for a particular item.
- straddlers — to walk, stand, or sit with the legs wide apart; stand or sit astride.
- strainedly — in a strained manner
- straitened — to put into difficulties, especially financial ones: His obligations had straitened him.
- strandline — a mark left by the high tide or a line of seaweed and other debris washed onto the beach by the tide
- stratified — to form or place in strata or layers.
- streamered — having streamers
- streamside — the land on the sides of a stream.
- streamwood — a city in NE Illinois.
- street rod — an old automobile that has been well maintained and typically has been provided with a powerful, modern engine and modern interior fittings.
- streetward — towards or in the direction of the street
- stridulate — to produce a shrill, grating sound, as a cricket does, by rubbing together certain parts of the body; shrill.
- strindberg — Johan August [yoo-hahn ou-goo st] /ˈyu hɑn ˈaʊ gʊst/ (Show IPA), 1849–1912, Swedish novelist, dramatist, and essayist.
- stringendo — to be performed with increasing speed
- stromateid — any of numerous small marine fishes of the family Stromateidae, having a laterally compressed body and an expanded muscular esophagus, often lined with teeth.
- structured — having and manifesting a clearly defined structure or organization.
- stud poker — a variety of poker in which each player is dealt one card face down in the first round and one card face up in each of the next four rounds, each of the last four rounds being followed by a betting interval. Compare seven-card stud.
- studebaker — Clement, 1831–1901, U.S. wagon maker and pioneer automobile designer.
- sturbridge — a town in central Massachusetts: reconstruction of early American village.
- sturdiness — strongly built; stalwart; robust: sturdy young athletes.
- sub-editor — A sub-editor is a person whose job it is to check and correct articles in newspapers or magazines before they are printed.
- subcordate — almost heart-shaped
- subtrahend — a number that is subtracted from another.
- suit-dress — a costume ensemble for women, consisting of a dress and matching coat or jacket.
- summertide — summer time
- surefooted — not likely to stumble, slip, or fall.
- surge tide — a powerful and often destructive tide that may occur when an abnormally high tide (e.g. at the autumn equinox) coincides with high wind and low atmospheric pressure
- surmounted — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
- sutherland — Earl Wilbur, Jr. 1915–74, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1971.
- sweetbread — Also called stomach sweetbread. the pancreas of an animal, especially a calf or a lamb, used for food.
- sword belt — a military belt from which a sword may be hung.
- tapestried — furnished or covered with tapestries.
- tawdriness — (of finery, trappings, etc.) gaudy; showy and cheap.
- ted spread — the difference in value between three-month futures contracts for Treasury bills and for Eurodollars, used to gauge the willingness of banks to lend money
- tenderness — soft or delicate in substance; not hard or tough: a tender steak.
- tendrilous — a threadlike, leafless organ of climbing plants, often growing in spiral form, which attaches itself to or twines round some other body, so as to support the plant.
- tent dress — a loose-fitting dress that gradually flares outward or grows fuller from the shoulder to the hem and has no waistline.
- test drive — If you test drive a car or other vehicle, you drive it for a short period in order to assess its performance before deciding whether to buy it.
- test-drill — to drill a test hole (in)
- test-drive — to drive (a vehicle) on the highway or a special track or route in order to evaluate performance and reliability.
- the absurd — the conception of the world, esp in Existentialist thought, as neither designed nor predictable but irrational and meaningless