10-letter words containing l, a, r, s, e
- shelf mark — a symbol indicating the location of a work on a shelf.
- shell star — a type of star showing bright emission lines superimposed on its normal absorption spectrum, presumably caused by a gaseous shell around the star.
- shetlander — a native or inhabitant of Shetland
- shopwalker — a floorwalker.
- shore lark — a bird: Eremophila alpestris
- short sale — an act or instance of selling short.
- shrievalty — the office, term, or jurisdiction of a sheriff.
- sickle bar — cutter bar (def 1).
- signal red — pimento (def 3).
- silentiary — someone who keeps silence in court
- silk paper — paper that contains silk fibers and is sometimes used for printing postage stamps and revenue stamps.
- silver age — Classical Mythology. the second of the four ages of humankind, inferior to the golden age but superior to the bronze age that followed: characterized by an increase of impiety and of human weakness.
- silverback — an older male gorilla, usually the leader of a troop, whose hairs along the back turn gray with age.
- silvertail — a person of affluence or influence.
- silverware — articles, especially eating and serving utensils, made of silver, silver-plated metals, stainless steel, etc.
- simple arc — a curve that does not cross itself and has no points missing; a curve that can be put into one-to-one correspondence with the closed interval from 0 to 1.
- sinkerball — sinker (def 5).
- siren call — the appeal that something has although it is harmful or dangerous
- skedaddler — a person or thing that skedaddles.
- slammerkin — a woman's loose dress
- slanderers — defamation; calumny: rumors full of slander.
- slanderous — defamation; calumny: rumors full of slander.
- slate-grey — of a dark grey colour
- slathering — to spread or apply thickly: to slather butter on toast.
- slatternly — slovenly and untidy.
- slaughtery — a slaughterhouse
- slipstream — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
- slot racer — slot car.
- sloth bear — a coarse-haired, long-snouted bear, Ursus ursinus, of India and Indochina: now rare.
- small beer — weak beer.
- small-bore — of, noting, or relating to a .22-caliber firearm.
- smart alec — smart aleck.
- smart well — A smart well is a well which has equipment that can be controlled either automatically or by an operator at a remote location.
- smart-alec — smart aleck.
- snail bore — drill1 (def 5).
- socializer — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- sodertalje — a city in SE Sweden: suburb of Stockholm.
- softballer — a person who plays or is an enthusiast of softball.
- solar apex — the point on the celestial sphere, near Vega, toward which the solar system is moving relative to the visible stars.
- solar cell — a photovoltaic cell that converts sunlight directly into electricity.
- solar year — year (def 4b).
- solar-heat — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
- 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.
- solidarize — to unite or come together; become solidified.
- somersault — an acrobatic movement, either forward or backward, in which the body rolls end over end, making a complete revolution.
- sparkliest — tending to sparkle; animated; lively: a row of sparkly cheerleaders.
- spectrally — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
- speculator — a person who is engaged in commercial or financial speculation.
- spermatial — relating to the male reproductive cells of certain red algae and fungi
- sphalerite — a very common mineral, zinc sulfide, ZnS, usually containing some iron and a little cadmium, occurring in yellow, brown, or black crystals or cleavable masses with resinous luster: the principal ore of zinc and cadmium; blackjack.