10-letter words containing i, n, d, s
- seleucidan — Seleucid.
- semi-naked — being without clothing or covering; nude: naked children swimming in the lake.
- semi-nomad — a member of a people or tribe that has no permanent abode but moves about from place to place, usually seasonally and often following a traditional route or circuit according to the state of the pasturage or food supply.
- semidivine — somewhat more than mortal but less than divine.
- semidrying — not drying completely
- seminudity — partial nudity; the state of being partly nude
- serenading — a complimentary performance of vocal or instrumental music in the open air at night, as by a lover under the window of his lady.
- sex-linked — (of a gene) located in a sex chromosome.
- sex-ridden — sexual in a rude and unpleasant way
- shadow pin — a vertical pin set in an azimuth instrument or at the center of a compass card, indicating by the direction of its shadow the azimuth of the sun.
- shanghaied — to enroll or obtain (a sailor) for the crew of a ship by unscrupulous means, as by force or the use of liquor or drugs.
- shieldling — a person that is protected or guarded
- shift down — When you shift down, you move the gear lever in the vehicle you are driving in order to use a lower gear.
- shin guard — a protective covering, usually of leather or plastic and often padded, for the shins and sometimes the knees, worn chiefly by catchers in baseball and goalkeepers in ice hockey.
- shoddiness — of poor quality or inferior workmanship: a shoddy bookcase.
- shopwindow — a window used for display of merchandise.
- shuddering — trembling or quivering with fear, dread, cold, etc.
- side chain — a group of atoms bound to an atom, usually a carbon, that forms part of a larger chain or ring in a molecule
- side money — (in a poker game) the money or chips in a side pot.
- sideburned — having sideburns
- sideration — sudden paralysis of a part of the body
- sidewinder — a severe swinging blow from the side.
- sighthound — gazehound.
- signal red — pimento (def 3).
- signposted — A place or route that is signposted has signposts beside the road to show the way.
- silk gland — any of several glands, as in various insects and spiders, that secrete a viscid protein substance which hardens into silk on contact with air.
- single bed — bed for one person
- single-end — accommodation consisting of a single room
- singlehood — the status of being unmarried.
- sinus node — sinoatrial node.
- sinusoidal — Mathematics. of or relating to a sinusoid.
- sipunculid — an invertebrate of the phylum Sipuncula, comprising the peanut worms.
- sir edmund — Clara, 1821–1912, U.S. philanthropist who organized the American Red Cross in 1881.
- sit around — be idle, lounge about
- skid chain — a chain fitting over the tire of a car, truck, or other vehicle, to increase traction and prevent skidding on roads covered with ice or snow.
- skin diver — person who explores underwater
- skinny-dip — to swim in the nude.
- sky diving — the sport of jumping from an airplane and executing free-fall maneuvers before opening the parachute, often at the last possible moment
- slenderize — to make slender or more slender.
- slide knot — a knot formed by making two half hitches on the standing part of the rope, the second hitch being next to the loop, which can be tightened.
- smaragdine — of or relating to emeralds.
- smoldering — to burn without flame; undergo slow or suppressed combustion.
- snow devil — a whirling column of snow
- snow-blind — the usually temporary dimming of the sight caused by the glare of reflected sunlight on snow.
- soda niter — a white or transparent mineral, sodium nitrate, NaNO 3 , used chiefly as a fertilizer and in the manufacture of sulfuric and nitric acids and potassium nitrate.
- sodcasting — the practice of playing music through the speakers of a mobile phone in a public space
- sodomising — to subject to sodomy; commit sodomy upon.
- soft drink — a beverage that is not alcoholic or intoxicating and is usually carbonated, as root beer or ginger ale.
- soi-disant — calling oneself thus; self-styled.
- solar wind — an emanation from the sun's corona consisting of a flow of charged particles, mainly electrons and protons, that interacts with the magnetic field of the earth and other planetary bodies.