10-letter words containing d, e, u, t, s
- smudge pot — a container for burning oil or other fuels to produce smudge, as for protecting fruit trees from frost.
- solicitude — the state of being solicitous; anxiety or concern.
- sound bite — a brief, striking remark or statement excerpted from an audiotape or videotape for insertion in a broadcast news story.
- soundstage — a soundproof room or building in which cinematic films are shot
- south bend — a city in N Indiana.
- south node — the descending node of the moon.
- southfield — a city in SE Michigan, W of Detroit.
- spaced out — dazed or stupefied because of the influence of narcotic drugs.
- spaced-out — dazed or stupefied because of the influence of narcotic drugs.
- speculated — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- spermaduct — a spermatic passage found in male animals
- spiculated — covered with spicules or needle-like
- spissitude — compactness
- spread out — extend, splay
- squaretoed — having a broad, square toe, as a shoe.
- squinteyed — squinting
- stand mute — to refuse to plead guilty or not guilty
- staudinger — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1881–1965, German chemist: Nobel prize 1953.
- steamed up — obscured by vapour
- steel drum — Music. a bowl-shaped percussion instrument common in the West Indies, made from a steel barrel divided into sections producing different notes when struck.
- stem duchy — (in medieval Germany) any of the independent duchies corresponding in part to areas of tribal settlement and preserving some elements of tribal social structure.
- stepped-up — increased; augmented; expanded; heightened: a stepped-up fundraising campaign.
- 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.
- stridulate — to produce a shrill, grating sound, as a cricket does, by rubbing together certain parts of the body; shrill.
- 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.
- stuffed up — sinuses, nose: congested
- stultified — to make, or cause to appear, foolish or ridiculous.
- stupendous — causing amazement; astounding; marvelous: stupendous news.
- stupidness — lacking ordinary quickness and keenness of mind; dull.
- 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
- subdialect — a division of a larger dialect
- subduement — the act or process of subduing
- 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.
- suit-dress — a costume ensemble for women, consisting of a dress and matching coat or jacket.
- summertide — summer time
- supplanted — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.