10-letter words containing e, a, g, l, s
- seguidilla — Prosody. a stanza of four to seven lines with a distinctive rhythmic pattern.
- seignorial — of or relating to a seignior.
- self-guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
- self-image — the idea, conception, or mental image one has of oneself.
- senegalese — of or relating to the republic of Senegal.
- shear legs — shear (def 16).
- shell game — a sleight-of-hand swindling game resembling thimblerig but employing walnut shells or the like instead of thimblelike cups.
- shillelagh — a cudgel, traditionally of blackthorn or oak.
- shot angle — the angle from which a shot is taken
- show a leg — to get up in the morning
- sialagogue — sialagogic (def 1).
- sialogogue — sialagogic (def 1).
- signal red — pimento (def 3).
- signalment — a detailed description, especially of distinctive features, of a person for identification, usually for police purposes.
- silica gel — a highly adsorbent gelatinous form of silica, used chiefly as a dehumidifying and dehydrating agent.
- silver age — Classical Mythology. the second of the four ages of humankind, inferior to the golden age but superior to the bronze age that followed: characterized by an increase of impiety and of human weakness.
- singhalese — Sinhalese
- single man — an individual checker restricted to forward moves, as contrasted with a king.
- single tax — a tax, as on land, that constitutes the sole source of public revenue.
- slackening — an act of becoming looser
- slate-grey — of a dark grey colour
- slathering — to spread or apply thickly: to slather butter on toast.
- slaughtery — a slaughterhouse
- slip gauge — a very accurately ground block of hardened steel used to measure a gap with close accuracy: used mainly in tool-making and inspection
- sluicegate — an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
- small game — wild animals and birds hunted for sport, as rabbits or doves, that are smaller than animals, as deer and bears, classified as big game.
- sneakingly — acting in a furtive or underhand way.
- sole agent — the only appointed agent or representative
- speakingly — in an eloquent manner
- spindleage — total number or capacity of spindles in a mill, area, etc.
- split page — (in a newspaper) a page replacing one of an earlier edition and containing chiefly the same material in altered form.
- spongeable — able to be cleaned with a sponge
- springdale — a city in NW Arkansas.
- square leg — the position of a fielder on the left of the batsman and almost on the opposite side of the wicket.
- squillagee — squeegee.
- st. gallen — a canton in NE Switzerland. 777 sq. mi. (2010 sq. km).
- stage left — Stage left is the left side of the stage for an actor who is standing facing the audience.
- stalagmite — a deposit, usually of calcium carbonate, more or less resembling an inverted stalactite, formed on the floor of a cave or the like by the dripping of percolating calcareous water.
- stallenger — a trader who was required to pay a fee in order to sell goods at a market stall, not being a member of the local merchants' guild or corporation
- staple gun — a machine for fastening together sheets of paper or the like, with wire staples.
- starveling — a person, animal, or plant that is starving.
- stealingly — in a stealthy or elusive manner; by stealing
- steel gray — dark metallic gray with a bluish tinge.
- sternalgia — pain occurring in or around the sternum
- sternalgic — relating to or having sternalgia
- stragglers — to stray from the road, course, or line of march.
- stranglers — to kill by squeezing the throat in order to compress the windpipe and prevent the intake of air, as with the hands or a tightly drawn cord.
- streamling — a small stream
- strigilate — an instrument with a curved blade, used especially by the ancient Greeks and Romans for scraping the skin at the bath and in the gymnasium.
- sugarallie — liquorice