10-letter words containing d, i, e, l
- self-drive — of, for, designating, or providing a car that is rented for personal use, without a hired driver.
- self-pride — pride in one's abilities, status, possessions, etc.; self-esteem.
- sellafield — the site of an atomic power station and nuclear reprocessing plant in NW England, in W Cumbria
- semi-solid — having a somewhat firm consistency; more or less solid.
- semidouble — having more petals than those of a single flower but fewer than those of a double flower.
- semifeudal — partly feudal
- semiliquid — having a thick consistency between liquid and solid
- septicidal — (of a capsule) dehiscing lengthwise along a septum.
- serialised — to publish in serial form.
- serradilla — a variety of clover, Ornithopus sativus, used as fodder for cattle
- sex-linked — (of a gene) located in a sex chromosome.
- sexualised — to render sexual; endow with sexual characteristics.
- shadowlike — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
- shield bug — any shield-shaped herbivorous heteropterous insect of the superfamily Pentamoidea, esp any of the family Pentatomidae
- shield law — a law protecting journalists from forced disclosure of confidential sources of information.
- shieldless — lacking a shield or its protection
- shieldling — a person that is protected or guarded
- shieldwall — a protective wall formed by interlocking the shields of foot soldiers
- shiplapped — of, related to, or resembling shiplap
- shopsoiled — worn, faded, tarnished, etc, from being displayed in a shop or store
- shrivelled — shrunken and withered
- side plate — a small plate used for bread or other accompaniments to a meal
- side salad — A side salad is a bowl of salad for one person which is served with a main meal.
- side table — a table intended to be placed against a wall.
- side-light — an item of incidental information.
- side-table — a table intended to be placed against a wall.
- side-wheel — having a paddle wheel on each side, as a steamboat.
- siderolite — stony-iron meteorite.
- sidesaddle — a saddle for women on which the rider sits, facing forward, usually with both feet on the left side of the horse.
- signal red — pimento (def 3).
- silverside — Chiefly British. a rump roast of beef, especially one taken from the crown of the rump.
- silverweed — a plant, Potentilla anserina, of the rose family, the leaves of which have a silvery pubescence on the underside.
- similitude — likeness; resemblance: a similitude of habits.
- simplified — to make less complex or complicated; make plainer or easier: to simplify a problem.
- single bed — bed for one person
- single-end — accommodation consisting of a single room
- singlehood — the status of being unmarried.
- skew field — a ring in which the equations ax = b and xa = b have solutions for x.
- skylighted — having or illuminated by a skylight.
- slab-sided — having the sides long and flat, like slabs.
- sleigh bed — a bed resembling a sleigh in shape, with curved boards at the head and foot
- slenderize — to make slender or more slender.
- slide knot — a knot formed by making two half hitches on the standing part of the rope, the second hitch being next to the loop, which can be tightened.
- slide over — to cross by or as if by sliding
- slide rest — a stack of platforms that sits on a lathe saddle and carries a tool post, and is adjustable in rotation and at right angles by a lathe operator
- slide rule — a device for performing mathematical calculations, consisting essentially of a ruler having a sliding piece moving along it, both marked with graduated, usually logarithmic, scales: now largely replaced by the electronic calculator.
- slide show — a presentation of photographic slides, or images on a transparent base, placed in a projector and viewed sequentially on a screen.
- slide-rule — a device for performing mathematical calculations, consisting essentially of a ruler having a sliding piece moving along it, both marked with graduated, usually logarithmic, scales: now largely replaced by the electronic calculator.
- slime mold — any of various funguslike organisms belonging to the phylum Myxomycota, of the kingdom Protista (or the plant class Myxomycetes), characterized by a noncellular, multinucleate, creeping somatic phase and a propagative phase in which fruiting bodies are produced bearing spores that are covered by cell walls.
- smithfield — a town in N Rhode Island.