10-letter words containing e, y, l
- shrievalty — the office, term, or jurisdiction of a sheriff.
- silentiary — someone who keeps silence in court
- silver-eye — white-eye.
- sinisterly — threatening or portending evil, harm, or trouble; ominous: a sinister remark.
- skylighted — having or illuminated by a skylight.
- slant-eyed — having eyes with epicanthic folds.
- slate-grey — of a dark grey colour
- slatternly — slovenly and untidy.
- slaughtery — a slaughterhouse
- sleep away — to spend in sleeping; sleep during
- sleep-away — of or relating to a place at which one sleeps away from home: sleep-away camp.
- sleepyhead — a sleepy person.
- sloppy joe — greasy spoon.
- smile away — to drive away or get rid of by a smile or smiling
- snake lily — a Californian plant, Dichelostemma volubile, of the amaryllis family, having a twining stem and an umbel of rose-red or pink flowers.
- sneakingly — acting in a furtive or underhand way.
- sneakishly — in a stealthy or underhanded manner
- sneeringly — to smile, laugh, or contort the face in a manner that shows scorn or contempt: They sneered at his pretensions.
- societally — noting or pertaining to large social groups, or to their activities, customs, etc.
- solar year — year (def 4b).
- solar-year — a period of 365 or 366 days, in the Gregorian calendar, divided into 12 calendar months, now reckoned as beginning Jan. 1 and ending Dec. 31 (calendar year or civil year) Compare common year, leap year.
- solenocyte — a type of long, narrow, flagellated cell that functions in excretion of nitrogenous wastes and occurs in a variety of organisms, including certain annelids and mollusks.
- 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
- southernly — southerly.
- speakingly — in an eloquent manner
- speciality — specialty.
- speciously — apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible: specious arguments.
- spectrally — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
- speedfully — in a quick or effective manner
- speleology — the exploration and study of caves.
- spellingly — one letter at a time
- sperrylite — a mineral, platinum arsenide, PtAs 2 , occurring in minute tin-white crystals, usually cubes: a minor ore of platinum.
- spider fly — an artificial fly having a hackle body, little or no tail, no wings, and unusually long legs, dressed to resemble a spider.
- spinsterly — relating to or resembling a spinster
- splay-feet — a broad, flat foot, especially one turned outward.
- splendidly — gorgeous; magnificent; sumptuous. Synonyms: luxurious, dazzling, imposing. Antonyms: squalid.
- spoylefull — plundering
- squirrelly — eccentric; flighty.
- stable boy — A stable boy is a young man who works in a stable looking after the horses.
- stable fly — a blood-sucking muscid fly, Stomoxys calcitrans, that attacks man and domestic animals
- stalk-eyed — having the eyes located on pedicels, as some crustaceans and dipterans.
- staphyline — having a form resembling a bunch of grapes
- starchedly — in a starched manner
- stay loose — free or released from fastening or attachment: a loose end.
- stealingly — in a stealthy or elusive manner; by stealing
- stealthily — done, characterized, or acting by stealth; furtive: stealthy footsteps.
- steel gray — dark metallic gray with a bluish tinge.
- steel grey — a dark grey colour, usually slightly purple
- stepfamily — a family composed of a parent, a stepparent, and a child or children by a previous marriage.