10-letter words containing e, g, l, s
- self-given — past participle of give.
- 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.
- self-wrong — wrong done to oneself.
- seltzogene — a device from the late Victorian times for making carbonated water
- semeiology — the study of signs and symbols; semiotics.
- semiologic — the study of signs and symbols; semiotics.
- senegalese — of or relating to the republic of Senegal.
- serologist — the science dealing with the immunological properties and actions of serum.
- sexologist — the study of sexual behavior.
- 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.
- shield bug — any shield-shaped herbivorous heteropterous insect of the superfamily Pentamoidea, esp any of the family Pentatomidae
- shieldling — a person that is protected or guarded
- 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
- shower gel — liquid soap product
- sialagogue — sialagogic (def 1).
- sialogogue — sialagogic (def 1).
- side-light — an item of incidental information.
- signal red — pimento (def 3).
- signalment — a detailed description, especially of distinctive features, of a person for identification, usually for police purposes.
- signorelli — Luca [loo-kah] /ˈlu kɑ/ (Show IPA), c1445–1523, Italian painter.
- silica gel — a highly adsorbent gelatinous form of silica, used chiefly as a dehumidifying and dehydrating agent.
- silkgrower — a person who breeds silkworms for their silk
- 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.
- silverberg — Robert, born 1935, U.S. science-fiction writer.
- silverling — a shekel or small silver coin
- singhalese — Sinhalese
- single bed — bed for one person
- single man — an individual checker restricted to forward moves, as contrasted with a king.
- single out — only one in number; one only; unique; sole: a single example.
- single tax — a tax, as on land, that constitutes the sole source of public revenue.
- single-cut — noting a file having a series of parallel cutting ridges in one direction only.
- single-end — accommodation consisting of a single room
- single-sex — designated for, pertaining to, or serving only males or only females: a single-sex college.
- single-use — made to be used once only
- singlehood — the status of being unmarried.
- singleness — the state or quality of being single.
- singletree — whiffletree.
- skylighted — having or illuminated by a skylight.
- 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
- sleeve dog — a very small Pekingese, usually under six pounds in weight and less than six inches (15 cm) tall.
- sleigh bed — a bed resembling a sleigh in shape, with curved boards at the head and foot
- slingstone — a stone fired from a sling
- 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