10-letter words containing e, s, n, t, i
- sharenting — the habitual use of social media to share news, images, etc of one’s children
- shattering — to break (something) into pieces, as by a blow.
- shipentine — a four-masted bark.
- shittiness — inferior or contemptible.
- shoestring — a shoelace.
- short line — a bus or rail route covering only a limited distance.
- shortening — butter, lard, or other fat, used to make pastry, bread, etc., short.
- shot noise — random fluctuations in the emission of electrons from a hot cathode, causing a hissing or sputtering sound (shot noise) in an audio amplifier and causing snow on a television screen.
- shrimp net — a net for catching shrimps
- shuttering — a solid or louvered movable cover for a window.
- sideration — sudden paralysis of a part of the body
- signalment — a detailed description, especially of distinctive features, of a person for identification, usually for police purposes.
- signposted — A place or route that is signposted has signposts beside the road to show the way.
- silent cop — a small hemispherical traffic marker at an intersection
- silentiary — someone who keeps silence in court
- silvertone — made to resemble silver in color, sheen, etc.
- 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.
- singletree — whiffletree.
- sinisterly — threatening or portending evil, harm, or trouble; ominous: a sinister remark.
- sixty-nine — a cardinal number, 60 plus 9.
- sixtypenny — noting a nail 6 inches (15 cm) long. Abbreviation: 60d.
- skeletonic — resembling a skeleton
- skimmerton — shivaree (def 1).
- skittering — to go, run, or glide lightly or rapidly.
- skywritten — created by the process of skywriting
- slathering — to spread or apply thickly: to slather butter on toast.
- sleetiness — the state or condition of being sleety
- slide knot — a knot formed by making two half hitches on the standing part of the rope, the second hitch being next to the loop, which can be tightened.
- slingstone — a stone fired from a sling
- 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.
- sluttiness — the state of being slutty
- smattering — slight or superficial knowledge; smattering.
- smithereen — to break into small fragments
- smothering — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
- snail kite — a bird of prey, Rostrhamus sociabilis, that travels in flocks in the American tropics and feeds on snails.
- snootiness — snobbish.
- snottiness — Vulgar. of or relating to snot.
- snow-white — white as snow.
- 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.
- solonetzic — characteristic of solonetz
- somethings — Informal. a person or thing of some value or consequence: He is really something! This writer has something to say and she says it well.
- songwriter — a person who writes the words or music, or both, for popular songs.
- soricident — having shrewlike teeth
- sorrentino — Gilbert, 1929–2006, U.S. poet and novelist.
- sound bite — a brief, striking remark or statement excerpted from an audiotape or videotape for insertion in a broadcast news story.
- souterrain — a subterranean passage or structure; grotto.
- spattering — to scatter or dash in small particles or drops: The dog spattered mud on everyone when he shook himself.
- spearpoint — the point at the end of a spearhead.