10-letter words containing e, s, k, a, r
- ratskeller — the cellar of a town hall, esp one used as a beer hall or restaurant
- red shanks — herb Robert.
- reichsbank — the former German national bank.
- reichsmark — the monetary unit of Germany from November, 1924, until 1948. Compare Deutsche mark, mark2 (def 1), ostmark.
- rickettsia — any member of the genus Rickettsia, comprising rod-shaped to coccoid microorganisms that resemble bacteria but can be as small as a large virus and reproduce only inside a living cell, parasitic in fleas, ticks, lice, and mites and transmitted by bite to vertebrate hosts, including humans, causing such severe diseases as typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
- ring snake — grass snake (def 1).
- rock snake — any large Australasian python of the genus Liasis
- rump steak — Rump or rump steak is meat cut from the rear end of a cow.
- sack dress — a loose, unbelted dress that hangs straight from the shoulder to the hemline.
- sail maker — someone whose occupation is to make and repair sails for boats
- sailorlike — resembling a sailor
- salesclerk — a person who sells goods in a store.
- saltshaker — table-salt dispenser
- samarskite — a velvet-black mineral, a complex columbate-tantalate of uranium, cerium, etc., occurring in masses: a minor source of uranium, thorium, and rare-earth oxides.
- sandsucker — the flatfish Platessa limandoides
- saucerlike — resembling a saucer
- sauerkraut — cabbage cut fine, salted, and allowed to ferment until sour.
- scent-mark — to deposit a scent mark; mark.
- schaerbeek — a city in central Belgium, near Brussels.
- scharwenka — (Ludwig) Philipp [loot-vikh fee-lip] /ˈlut vɪx ˈfi lɪp/ (Show IPA), 1847–1917, German composer.
- screw jack — jackscrew.
- sea rocket — any of several plants of the related genus Cakile, esp C. maritima, which grow along the seashores of Europe and North America and have mauve, pink, or white flowers
- shark bell — a bell sounded to warn swimmers of the presence of sharks
- sheeptrack — a small natural terrace on a hillside
- shelf mark — a symbol indicating the location of a work on a shelf.
- shirtmaker — a person who makes shirts.
- shopwalker — a floorwalker.
- shore lark — a bird: Eremophila alpestris
- sickle bar — cutter bar (def 1).
- silk paper — paper that contains silk fibers and is sometimes used for printing postage stamps and revenue stamps.
- silverback — an older male gorilla, usually the leader of a troop, whose hairs along the back turn gray with age.
- sinkerball — sinker (def 5).
- skara brae — the site of an excavated Neolithic village on Pomona in the Orkney Islands, dating from c2000 b.c.
- skate over — to cross on or as if on skates
- skate park — area for skateboarding
- skateboard — a device for riding upon, usually while standing, consisting of a short, oblong piece of wood, plastic, or aluminum mounted on large roller-skate wheels, used on smooth surfaces and requiring better balance of the rider than the ordinary roller skate does.
- skedaddler — a person or thing that skedaddles.
- skinnerian — a psychologist who follows behaviorist theories developed by B. F. Skinner.
- sky marker — a parachute flare dropped to mark a target area
- skyscraper — a relatively tall building of many stories, especially one for office or commercial use.
- slammerkin — a woman's loose dress
- smokeboard — a board situated above a fireplace to prevent the emission of smoke into a room
- snarkiness — testy or irritable; short.
- sneakernet — Facetious. the transfer of electronic information by carrying the storage medium, especially a floppy disk, from one computer to another.
- space mark — a proofreader's symbol used to indicate the need to insert space, as between two typed or printed words that have been run together. Symbol: #.
- sparkliest — tending to sparkle; animated; lively: a row of sparkly cheerleaders.
- speakerine — a female television or radio announcer
- specmark89 — (benchmark) An old SPECmark benchmark result derived from a set of floating-point and integer benchmarks. It is the geometric mean of ten SPEC ratios of the outdated 1989 SPEC benchmark suite. The use of SPECmark89 is strongly discouraged, having been superseded by CINT92 and CFP92.
- speedfreak — an addict or habitual user of amphetamines, methamphetamines, or similar stimulating drugs.
- sperm bank — a repository for storing sperm and keeping it viable under scientifically controlled conditions prior to its use in artificial insemination.