10-letter words containing d, i, s, n, e
- sound bite — a brief, striking remark or statement excerpted from an audiotape or videotape for insertion in a broadcast news story.
- sound file — an audio file that can be played by a computer or other electronic device
- sound line — a line fastened to a harpoon and carried down into the water by a whale when sounding
- soundalike — a person or thing that sounds like another, especially a better known or more famous prototype: a whole spate of Elvis Presley soundalikes.
- sourdeline — a type of bagpipe
- speediness — characterized by speed; rapid; swift; fast.
- spermidine — a biogenic polyamine, H 2 N(CH 2) 4 NH(CH 2) 3 NH 2 , formed from putrescine, occurring widely in nature and first identified in semen.
- sphenoidal — relating to the sphenoid bone
- sphenopsid — equisetoid.
- spiderling — the young of a spider.
- spin-dryer — to remove moisture from (laundry) by centrifugal force, as in an automatic washing machine.
- spindleage — total number or capacity of spindles in a mill, area, etc.
- spinigrade — a type of spiny echinoderm
- splendidly — gorgeous; magnificent; sumptuous. Synonyms: luxurious, dazzling, imposing. Antonyms: squalid.
- splintered — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
- split ends — If you have split ends, some of your hairs are split at the ends because they are dry or damaged.
- springdale — a city in NW Arkansas.
- springhead — a spring or fountainhead from which a stream flows.
- squinteyed — squinting
- staudinger — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1881–1965, German chemist: Nobel prize 1953.
- steadiness — firmly placed or fixed; stable in position or equilibrium: a steady ladder.
- steeped in — full of
- stemwinder — a stemwinding watch.
- stencilled — a device for applying a pattern, design, words, etc., to a surface, consisting of a thin sheet of cardboard, metal, or other material from which figures or letters have been cut out, a coloring substance, ink, etc., being rubbed, brushed, or pressed over the sheet, passing through the perforations and onto the surface.
- stewarding — a person who manages another's property or financial affairs; one who administers anything as the agent of another or others.
- sticky end — a single-stranded end of DNA or RNA having a nucleotide base sequence complementary to that of another strand, enabling the two strands to be connected by base pairing: produced in the laboratory with the use of restriction enzymes for genetic engineering purposes.
- stockinged — a close-fitting covering for the foot and part of the leg, usually knitted, of wool, cotton, nylon, silk, or similar material.
- stodginess — heavy, dull, or uninteresting; tediously commonplace; boring: a stodgy Victorian novel.
- stolidness — not easily stirred or moved mentally; unemotional; impassive.
- 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
- 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
- stupidness — lacking ordinary quickness and keenness of mind; dull.
- sturdiness — strongly built; stalwart; robust: sturdy young athletes.
- subheading — a subordinate division of a title or heading.
- subjoinder — something subjoined, as an additional comment.
- submediant — the sixth tone of a diatonic scale, being midway between the subdominant and the upper tonic.
- subsidence — to sink to a low or lower level.
- succeeding — being that which follows; subsequent; ensuing: laws to benefit succeeding generations.
- sun spider — any predatory, scorpionlike arachnid of the order Solifugae (or Solpugida), having enormously developed mouth pincers and a long body covered with tactile hairs, inhabiting deserts and plains regions in all warm parts of the world except Australia.
- sun-filled — filled with light from the sun
- sun-kissed — made warm by the sun
- sun-shield — something put over the windscreen of a car to keep the sun out
- sunny side — the part upon which sunlight falls: the sunny side of the house.
- suspensoid — a sol having a solid disperse phase.
- sylphidine — resembling a sylph
- synderesis — innate knowledge of the basic principles of morality.
- 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.