10-letter words containing e, s, n, t, i
- stiffening — the act or process of becoming stiff
- still wine — any nonsparkling table wine.
- stiltiness — the state or quality of being stilty
- stinginess — reluctant to give or spend; not generous; niggardly; penurious: He's a stingy old miser.
- stinkstone — any of various limestones that emit an unpleasant odor when scratched or struck.
- 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
- stodginess — heavy, dull, or uninteresting; tediously commonplace; boring: a stodgy Victorian novel.
- stolenwise — in a stealthy or secretive manner
- stolidness — not easily stirred or moved mentally; unemotional; impassive.
- stone lily — a fossil crinoid.
- stone mint — dittany (def 2).
- stone pine — Also called umbrella pine, parasol pine. a tree, Pinus pinea, native to southern Europe, having branches forming an umbrellalike crown and bearing edible, nutlike seeds.
- stone-lily — a fossil crinoid.
- story line — plot (def 2).
- straighten — make straight
- strainedly — in a strained manner
- strainless — to draw tight or taut, especially to the utmost tension; stretch to the full: to strain a rope.
- straitened — to put into difficulties, especially financial ones: His obligations had straitened him.
- strandline — a mark left by the high tide or a line of seaweed and other debris washed onto the beach by the tide
- straw wine — a usually rich or sweet wine produced from grapes partially dried on the vine or picked and dried in the sun on a bed of straw or reeds.
- streamline — a teardrop line of contour offering the least possible resistance to a current of air, water, etc.
- streamling — a small stream
- stretching — the activity of straightening the arms and legs and tightening the muscles
- strictness — characterized by or acting in close conformity to requirements or principles: a strict observance of rituals.
- strindberg — Johan August [yoo-hahn ou-goo st] /ˈyu hɑn ˈaʊ gʊst/ (Show IPA), 1849–1912, Swedish novelist, dramatist, and essayist.
- string tie — a short, very narrow, and unflared necktie, usually tied in a bow.
- stringbean — any of various kinds of bean, as the green bean, the unripe pods of which are used as food, usually after stripping off the fibrous thread along the side.
- stringency — stringent character or condition: the stringency of poverty.
- stringendo — to be performed with increasing speed
- stringless — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- strip mine — A strip mine is a mine in which the coal, metal, or mineral is near the surface, and so underground passages are not needed.
- stripiness — the state or quality of being stripy
- strobiline — of or relating to a strobilus
- strychnine — Pharmacology. a colorless, crystalline poison, C 2 1 H 2 2 N 2 O 2 , obtained chiefly by extraction from the seeds of nux vomica, formerly used as a central nervous system stimulant.
- stuffiness — close; poorly ventilated: a stuffy room.
- stunt kite — a kite held by two hands and having two lines
- stupefying — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
- stupidness — lacking ordinary quickness and keenness of mind; dull.
- sturdiness — strongly built; stalwart; robust: sturdy young athletes.
- subcabinet — a group of advisers ranking below the cabinet level, chosen by a chief executive usually from members of the various executive departments.
- subjecting — that which forms a basic matter of thought, discussion, investigation, etc.: a subject of conversation.
- subjection — the act of subjecting.
- submediant — the sixth tone of a diatonic scale, being midway between the subdominant and the upper tonic.
- subnitrate — a basic salt of nitric acid.
- subpontine — of or relating to the Pontine Marshes.
- subreption — Canon Law. a concealment of the pertinent facts in a petition, as for dispensation or favor, that in certain cases nullifies the grant. Compare obreption (def 1).
- subroutine — an instruction sequence in a machine or assembly language program that can be prewritten and referred to as often as needed. Compare procedure (def 4a).
- subsection — a part or division of a section.