10-letter words containing e, a, s, i, r, d
- siderostat — a telescopic device for reflecting the light of a star in a constant direction, the chief component of which is a plane mirror turned by a clock mechanism to correct for the rotation of the earth.
- sidestream — (of cigarette smoke) inhaled by passive smokers
- sight-read — Someone who can sight-read can play or sing music from a printed sheet the first time they see it, without practising it beforehand.
- signal red — pimento (def 3).
- smaragdine — of or relating to emeralds.
- smaragdite — a green, foliated member of the amphibole group.
- smartdrive — (storage, product) A Microsoft MS DOS disk cache program to speed up disk access. For most users, a 1MB cache is sufficient. Devoting more memory to the cache offers diminishing returns, since the additional cache hits become fewer (and the extra memory could be better used to reduce swapping). Typing SMARTDRV /S at a DOS prompt shows the cache size, a hit-and-miss report, and information about which drives are being cached. The hit-and-miss statistics are crucial for gauging the effectiveness of SmartDrive settings. A score in the high 80s shows that SmartDrive is well configured. Run SMARTDRV /S several times during a Windows session and note the-hit-and-miss figures each time. If your percentage usually falls below 80 percent, you should consider increasing the cache size. You can edit the SMARTDRV line in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file to increase both the InitCacheSize and the WinCacheSize parameters. SmartDrive Monitor is an undocumented Windows program that comes with DOS 6.0 for logging and controling the cache.
- soda niter — a white or transparent mineral, sodium nitrate, NaNO 3 , used chiefly as a fertilizer and in the manufacture of sulfuric and nitric acids and potassium nitrate.
- solidarize — to unite or come together; become solidified.
- spear side — the male side, or line of descent, of a family (opposed to distaff side or spindle side).
- spermatoid — resembling sperm.
- spheroidal — pertaining to a spheroid or spheroids.
- spinigrade — a type of spiny echinoderm
- springdale — a city in NW Arkansas.
- springhead — a spring or fountainhead from which a stream flows.
- stadimeter — an instrument for determining the distance between an observer and an object of known height by measurement of the angle subtended by the object.
- staffrider — a person who illegally rides on the outside of a suburban train
- starfished — lying with arms and legs outstretched; spread-eagled
- state bird — a bird chosen as an official symbol of a U.S. state.
- statesider — a person who lives in one of the forty-eight contiguous states of the U.S.
- staudinger — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1881–1965, German chemist: Nobel prize 1953.
- stewarding — a person who manages another's property or financial affairs; one who administers anything as the agent of another or others.
- 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.
- streamside — the land on the sides of a stream.
- 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.
- subcarbide — a carbide containing less than the normal proportion of carbon.
- summarised — to make a summary of; state or express in a concise form.
- swipe card — a plastic card with magnetically encoded data that is decoded when passed through a slotted electronic reader, especially for payment or identification purposes.
- tapestried — furnished or covered with tapestries.
- tawdriness — (of finery, trappings, etc.) gaudy; showy and cheap.
- third base — the third in counterclockwise order of the bases from home plate.
- threadfish — any of several jacks of the genus Alectis, especially A. ciliaris, having the front rays of the dorsal and anal fins greatly elongated.
- traditores — an early Christian who betrayed other Christians at the time of the Roman persecutions.
- transfixed — to make or hold motionless with amazement, awe, terror, etc.
- transpired — to occur; happen; take place.
- unapprised — not informed or apprised of something
- under sail — If you cross the sea under sail, you cross it in a ship that has sails rather than an engine.
- underwaist — a blouse worn under another.
- unparadise — to deprive of or expel from paradise
- unravished — to rape (a woman).
- unsalaried — worker: hourly wage
- unstrained — not under strain or tension: an easy, unstrained manner.
- unstriated — marked with striae; furrowed; striped; streaked.
- vide supra — (used to direct a reader to a specified place in a text) see above
- wanderings — Plural form of wandering.
- wardenship — The state of being a warden.