10-letter words containing g, i, t, s
- slathering — to spread or apply thickly: to slather butter on toast.
- 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.
- sluicegate — an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
- smaragdite — a green, foliated member of the amphibole group.
- smattering — slight or superficial knowledge; smattering.
- smoketight — (of a door, etc) not allowing smoke to pass through
- smothering — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
- snowtubing — the sport of moving across snow on a large inflated inner tube
- sodcasting — the practice of playing music through the speakers of a mobile phone in a public space
- soliciting — to seek for (something) by entreaty, earnest or respectful request, formal application, etc.: He solicited aid from the minister.
- solivagant — a lone wanderer
- 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.
- soothingly — that soothes: a soothing voice.
- sortileger — a diviner
- spatangoid — a type of sea urchin
- spattering — to scatter or dash in small particles or drops: The dog spattered mud on everyone when he shook himself.
- spectating — to participate as a spectator, as at a horse race.
- spirit gum — a glue used in fastening false hair, as a beard or mustache, to an actor's skin.
- spittlebug — the nymph of the froghopper, which surrounds itself with a frothy mass.
- split page — (in a newspaper) a page replacing one of an earlier edition and containing chiefly the same material in altered form.
- split ring — a steel ring having two helical turns, often used as a key ring
- split-wing — of or relating to wings (of an artificial fly) that are dressed cocked up and separated into a V shape
- sportingly — engaging in, disposed to, or interested in open-air or athletic sports: a rugged, sporting man.
- sprightful — sprightly.
- springhalt — stringhalt.
- springtail — any of numerous minute, wingless primitive insects of the order Collembola, most possessing a special abdominal appendage for jumping that allows for the nearly perpetual springing pattern characteristic of the group.
- springtime — the season of spring.
- springwort — a plant with magical powers, mentioned in fables and folklore but not identified
- sputtering — the act or sound of sputtering.
- squirt gun — spray gun.
- stabbingly — in a stabbing way
- stag movie — a pornographic film intended primarily for male audiences.
- stag night — man's bachelor party prior to marriage
- stage wait — an unintentional pause during a performance, usually caused by a performer's or stagehand's missing a cue.
- stage-dive — to jump off the stage at a concert onto the crowd below
- staggering — tending to stagger or overwhelm: a staggering amount of money required in the initial investment.
- stagnation — the state or condition of stagnating, or having stopped, as by ceasing to run or flow: Meteorologists forecast ozone and air stagnation.
- stalagmite — a deposit, usually of calcium carbonate, more or less resembling an inverted stalactite, formed on the floor of a cave or the like by the dripping of percolating calcareous water.
- stalingrad — former name of Volgograd.
- standing o — standing ovation
- stargazing — to gaze at or observe the stars.
- startingly — in sudden brief snatches, or with a sudden nervous jump or start
- starveling — a person, animal, or plant that is starving.
- stationing — a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
- staudinger — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1881–1965, German chemist: Nobel prize 1953.
- stealingly — in a stealthy or elusive manner; by stealing
- steamtight — impervious to steam.
- stenciling — a device for applying a pattern, design, words, etc., to a surface, consisting of a thin sheet of cardboard, metal, or other material from which figures or letters have been cut out, a coloring substance, ink, etc., being rubbed, brushed, or pressed over the sheet, passing through the perforations and onto the surface.