10-letter words containing e, y, s, r
- ruby laser — a solid-state, pulsed laser that uses a ruby crystal to produce a very strong beam of red coherent light, used in making holographs and in cosmetic instruments.
- ruthlessly — without pity or compassion; cruel; merciless: a ruthless tyrant.
- safety car — life car.
- sage derby — a green-and-white Derby cheese flavoured with sage
- sandpapery — of or suggesting the grating sound of sandpaper rubbing against wood or the rough texture of sandpaper.
- saprophyte — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- sarera bay — a large bay on the NW coast of New Guinea, in Irian Jaya, in Indonesia.
- satyresque — possessing the qualities of a satyr
- sayreville — a city in central New Jersey.
- scaldberry — the bramble or blackberry, Rubus fruticosus
- scare away — frighten off sb, sth
- sclerotomy — incision into the sclera, as to extract foreign bodies.
- screenplay — a motion-picture or television scenario.
- sea canary — beluga (def 2).
- sea lawyer — a sailor inclined to question or complain about the orders given.
- secularity — secular views or beliefs; secularism.
- segmentary — one of the parts into which something naturally separates or is divided; a division, portion, or section: a segment of an orange.
- semidrying — not drying completely
- semiyearly — semiannual (def 1).
- sentry box — a small structure for sheltering a sentry from bad weather.
- separately — to keep apart or divide, as by an intervening barrier or space: to separate two fields by a fence.
- separatory — serving to separate.
- serigraphy — a print made by the silkscreen process.
- set theory — the branch of mathematics that deals with relations between sets.
- sexagenary — of or relating to the number 60.
- sharp-eyed — having keen sight or perception.
- sheepberry — a North American shrub or small tree, Viburnum lentago, of the honeysuckle family, having flat-topped clusters of small white flowers and edible, berrylike black drupes.
- shrewsbury — a city now part of Shrewsbury and Atcham, in Salop, in W England.
- shrievalty — the office, term, or jurisdiction of a sheriff.
- siderocyte — an erythrocyte that contains iron in forms other than hematin.
- silentiary — someone who keeps silence in court
- silver-eye — white-eye.
- sinisterly — threatening or portending evil, harm, or trouble; ominous: a sinister remark.
- sit pretty — to rest with the body supported by the buttocks or thighs; be seated.
- six-storey — having six floors or storeys
- sixth year — (in Scotland) the most senior class in a secondary school to which pupils, usually above the legal leaving age, may proceed to take sixth-year studies, retake or take additional Highers, etc
- 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.
- skytrooper — a paratrooper.
- skywritten — created by the process of skywriting
- slate-grey — of a dark grey colour
- slatternly — slovenly and untidy.
- slaughtery — a slaughterhouse
- sneeringly — to smile, laugh, or contort the face in a manner that shows scorn or contempt: They sneered at his pretensions.
- sociometry — the measurement of attitudes of social acceptance or rejection through expressed preferences among members of a social grouping.
- 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.
- soothsayer — a person who professes to foretell events.
- sooty tern — a black and white tern, Sterna fuscata, of small tropical islands.
- sophrosyne — moderation; discretion; prudence.