10-letter words containing e, c, o, n, s
- second sex — one sex considered as secondary or subordinate in role to the other, especially women in a male-dominated society.
- second-run — designating or of:
- secondhand — not directly known or experienced; obtained from others or from books: Most of our knowledge is secondhand.
- secondment — the transfer of a military officer or corporate executive to another post for temporary duty.
- sectioning — a part that is cut off or separated.
- sectionize — to form or divide into sections
- see action — to participate in military combat
- seger cone — a pyrometric cone composed of clay and salt.
- semi-colon — A semi-colon is the punctuation mark ; which is used in writing to separate different parts of a sentence or list or to indicate a pause.
- semicolony — a country which is partly colonial or which is officially independent but which in fact depends on or is dominated by another country
- settecento — the 18th cent. as a period in Italian art and literature
- shackleton — Sir Ernest Henry, 1874–1922, English explorer of the Antarctic.
- shevchenko — Taras Grigoryevich [Russian tah-ruh s gryi-gawr-yi-vyich] /Russian ˈtɑ rəs gryɪˈgɔr yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1814–61, Ukrainian national poet.
- silent cop — a small hemispherical traffic marker at an intersection
- skeletonic — resembling a skeleton
- snow cover — a layer of snow on the ground.
- snow fence — a barrier erected on the windward side of a road, house, barn, etc., serving as a protection from drifting snow.
- snow-creep — a continuous, slow, downhill movement of snow.
- snowcapped — topped with snow: the snowcapped Alps.
- socialness — relating to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations: a social club.
- sociogenic — caused or influenced by society or social factors: sociogenic problems.
- sock-liner — a thin piece of material, as leather, that is laid on top of the insole of a shoe, boot, or other footwear.
- solacement — a comfort or consolation
- solenocyte — a type of long, narrow, flagellated cell that functions in excretion of nitrogenous wastes and occurs in a variety of organisms, including certain annelids and mollusks.
- solonetzic — characteristic of solonetz
- somewhence — from somewhere
- somnolence — sleepy; drowsy.
- song cycle — a group of art songs that are usually all by the same poet and composer and have a unifying subject or idea.
- sonic mine — an underwater naval explosive which is activated using sound. Also called an acoustic mine.
- sophoclean — 495?–406? b.c, Greek dramatist.
- soricident — having shrewlike teeth
- soundscape — the component sounds of an environment.
- spaceborne — moving in orbit around the earth: a spaceborne surveillance system.
- spacewoman — a woman astronaut.
- speciation — the formation of new species as a result of geographic, physiological, anatomical, or behavioral factors that prevent previously interbreeding populations from breeding with each other.
- spinaceous — pertaining to or of the nature of spinach; belonging to the amaranth family of plants.
- spongecake — sweet cake of eggs and flour
- spongocoel — the central cavity in the body of a sponge.
- sporogenic — relating to the production or formation of spores, or producing spores
- stenopaeic — pertaining to or containing a narrow slit or minute opening: a stenopeic device to aid vision after eye surgery.
- stenotopic — (of an animal or plant) able to tolerate only small environmental changes.
- sterno can — a small can of Sterno
- stockiness — the quality of being stocky
- stockinged — a close-fitting covering for the foot and part of the leg, usually knitted, of wool, cotton, nylon, silk, or similar material.
- stockinger — a person who knits on a stocking frame
- stockowner — stockholder (def 1).
- stone cold — completely cold
- stone crab — an edible crab, Menippe mercenaria, of rocky shores from the southern U.S. to Mexico and certain areas of the Caribbean, prized for the meat of its claws.
- stone face — living stones.
- stone-cold — If something that should be warm is stone-cold, it is very cold.