10-letter words containing d, e, t, s, a
- step dance — a dance in which the steps are the most important characteristic, specifically a solo dance with intricate, vigorous steps, often performed with the hands kept in the pockets.
- stepdancer — a person who engages in stepdancing
- stepladder — a ladder having flat steps or treads in place of rungs.
- stereocard — a card showing two stereoscopic pictures
- 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.
- stimulated — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- stipulated — to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of agreement (often followed by for).
- stomodaeum — stomodeum.
- stone dead — undeniably dead; completely lifeless.
- stone deaf — totally deaf.
- stone-dead — undeniably dead; completely lifeless.
- stone-deaf — totally deaf.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- studebaker — Clement, 1831–1901, U.S. wagon maker and pioneer automobile designer.
- subcordate — almost heart-shaped
- subdialect — a division of a larger dialect
- submediant — the sixth tone of a diatonic scale, being midway between the subdominant and the upper tonic.
- subtrahend — a number that is subtracted from another.
- supplanted — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
- 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.
- syncopated — marked by syncopation: syncopated rhythm.
- syndicated — a group of individuals or organizations combined or making a joint effort to undertake some specific duty or carry out specific transactions or negotiations: The local furniture store is individually owned, but is part of a buying syndicate.
- table-side — the area around or beside a table.
- take aside — talk to privately
- take sides — one of the surfaces forming the outside of or bounding a thing, or one of the lines bounding a geometric figure.
- tandemwise — in the manner of a tandem
- tantalised — to torment with, or as if with, the sight of something desired but out of reach; tease by arousing expectations that are repeatedly disappointed.
- tapestried — furnished or covered with tapestries.
- taste buds — one of numerous small, flask-shaped bodies, chiefly in the epithelium of the tongue, which are the end organs for the sense of taste.
- 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
- telecasted — a television broadcast.
- tesselated — of, relating to, or like a mosaic.
- test stand — a device that restrains a missile or rocket during a captive test.
- testudinal — pertaining to or resembling a tortoise or tortoise shell.