10-letter words containing e, g, l, s
- slithering — to slide down or along a surface, especially unsteadily, from side to side, or with some friction or noise: The box slithered down the chute.
- slobbering — to let saliva or liquid run from the mouth; slaver; drivel.
- sludgeworm — a small freshwater worm, Tubifex tubifex, often inhabiting sewage sludge and the muddy bottoms of lakes, rivers, and pools.
- sluicegate — an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
- slumbering — to sleep, especially lightly; doze; drowse.
- 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.
- smoldering — to burn without flame; undergo slow or suppressed combustion.
- sneakingly — acting in a furtive or underhand way.
- sneeringly — to smile, laugh, or contort the face in a manner that shows scorn or contempt: They sneered at his pretensions.
- snivelling — to weep or cry with sniffling.
- snorkeling — Also called, British, snort. a device permitting a submarine to remain submerged for prolonged periods, consisting of tubes extended above the surface of the water to take in air for the diesel engine and for general ventilation and to discharge exhaust gases and foul air.
- socdoliger — a conclusive argument, a hard blow
- solderings — any parts which have been soldered together
- soldiering — a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
- sole agent — the only appointed agent or representative
- song cycle — a group of art songs that are usually all by the same poet and composer and have a unifying subject or idea.
- songlessly — in a songless manner
- sortileger — a diviner
- speakingly — in an eloquent manner
- speleology — the exploration and study of caves.
- spellingly — one letter at a time
- spelunking — to explore caves, especially as a hobby.
- spiderling — the young of a spider.
- spindleage — total number or capacity of spindles in a mill, area, etc.
- spittlebug — the nymph of the froghopper, which surrounds itself with a frothy mass.
- 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
- spongocoel — the central cavity in the body of a sponge.
- springdale — a city in NW Arkansas.
- springerle — anise-flavored cookies, orig. of Germany
- springless — having no springs: a springless bed.
- springlike — to rise, leap, move, or act suddenly and swiftly, as by a sudden dart or thrust forward or outward, or being suddenly released from a coiled or constrained position: to spring into the air; a tiger about to spring.
- square leg — the position of a fielder on the left of the batsman and almost on the opposite side of the wicket.
- squelching — to strike or press with crushing force; crush down; squash.
- squillagee — squeegee.
- squireling — a landowner of a small estate.
- 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.
- steel grey — a dark grey colour, usually slightly purple
- stenciling — 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.
- stereology — a branch of science dealing with the determination of the three-dimensional structure of objects based on two-dimensional views of them.
- sterlingly — in a sterling way or manner
- sternalgia — pain occurring in or around the sternum
- sternalgic — relating to or having sternalgia