10-letter words containing e, y, s, r
- southernly — southerly.
- spare tyre — A spare tyre is a wheel with a tyre on it that you keep in your car in case you get a flat tyre and need to replace one of your wheels.
- spectrally — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
- sperrylite — a mineral, platinum arsenide, PtAs 2 , occurring in minute tin-white crystals, usually cubes: a minor ore of platinum.
- sphericity — a spherical state or form.
- spherocyte — an abnormal blood cell
- spiceberry — a myrtaceous tree, Eugenia rhombea, of the Caribbean and Florida, with orange or black edible fruits
- spider fly — an artificial fly having a hackle body, little or no tail, no wings, and unusually long legs, dressed to resemble a spider.
- spin-dryer — to remove moisture from (laundry) by centrifugal force, as in an automatic washing machine.
- spinsterly — relating to or resembling a spinster
- spirometry — an instrument for determining the capacity of the lungs.
- sporocytes — a diploid cell in certain spore-bearing plants, as liverworts, that produces four haploid spores through meiosis; a spore mother cell.
- sporophyte — the form of a plant in the alternation of generations that produces asexual spores.
- spreaghery — the activity or crime of raiding cattle
- spy camera — a hidden, disguised or miniature camera used in espionage
- spycatcher — a person who works in counterintelligence to detect enemy espionage activities
- squirrelly — eccentric; flighty.
- starchedly — in a starched manner
- stationery — writing paper.
- stay-press — (of fabric or clothing) treated so as to retain a freshly ironed look after washing.
- steel gray — dark metallic gray with a bluish tinge.
- steel grey — a dark grey colour, usually slightly purple
- stenotyper — a machine with a keyboard for recording speeches or dictation in phonetic shorthand
- stercorary — a weatherproof place where dung is stored
- stereology — a branch of science dealing with the determination of the three-dimensional structure of objects based on two-dimensional views of them.
- stereotaxy — brain surgery that makes use of measurement in three dimensions for positioning an electrode, needle, etc. precisely
- stereotomy — the technique of cutting solids, as stones, to specified forms and dimensions.
- stereotype — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
- stereotypy — the stereotype process.
- sterically — of or relating to the spatial relationships of atoms in a molecule.
- sterlingly — in a sterling way or manner
- store away — keep
- story line — plot (def 2).
- storyville — a red-light district of New Orleans known as a wellspring of jazz before World War I.
- strainedly — in a strained manner
- strathspey — a slow Scottish dance in quadruple meter.
- strawberry — the fruit of any stemless plant belonging to the genus Fragaria, of the rose family, consisting of an enlarged fleshy receptacle bearing achenes on its exterior.
- street cry — the cry of a street hawker
- strike pay — strike benefit.
- stringency — stringent character or condition: the stringency of poverty.
- 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.
- stylometry — the study of the style of something such as a written text so as to determine the author
- subdeanery — the position or office of a subdean
- subvariety — a minor or subordinate variety
- sugarberry — a hackberry, Celtis laevigata, of the southern U.S.
- sumerology — the study of the history, language, and culture of the Sumerians.
- superalloy — an alloy, often with a nickel, nickel-iron, or cobalt base, capable of withstanding very high temperatures, used in jet engines, rockets, etc.
- supercycle — any complete round or series of occurrences that repeats or is repeated.
- superheavy — Chemistry, Physics. pertaining to any of a series of elements having an atomic number greater than 103.
- superiorly — higher in station, rank, degree, importance, etc.: a superior officer.