10-letter words containing l, e, y, s
- speciously — apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible: specious arguments.
- spectrally — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
- speedfully — in a quick or effective manner
- speleology — the exploration and study of caves.
- spellingly — one letter at a time
- sperrylite — a mineral, platinum arsenide, PtAs 2 , occurring in minute tin-white crystals, usually cubes: a minor ore of platinum.
- spider fly — an artificial fly having a hackle body, little or no tail, no wings, and unusually long legs, dressed to resemble a spider.
- spinsterly — relating to or resembling a spinster
- splay-feet — a broad, flat foot, especially one turned outward.
- splendidly — gorgeous; magnificent; sumptuous. Synonyms: luxurious, dazzling, imposing. Antonyms: squalid.
- spoylefull — plundering
- squirrelly — eccentric; flighty.
- stable boy — A stable boy is a young man who works in a stable looking after the horses.
- stable fly — a blood-sucking muscid fly, Stomoxys calcitrans, that attacks man and domestic animals
- stalk-eyed — having the eyes located on pedicels, as some crustaceans and dipterans.
- staphyline — having a form resembling a bunch of grapes
- starchedly — in a starched manner
- stay loose — free or released from fastening or attachment: a loose end.
- stealingly — in a stealthy or elusive manner; by stealing
- stealthily — done, characterized, or acting by stealth; furtive: stealthy footsteps.
- steel gray — dark metallic gray with a bluish tinge.
- steel grey — a dark grey colour, usually slightly purple
- stepfamily — a family composed of a parent, a stepparent, and a child or children by a previous marriage.
- stereology — a branch of science dealing with the determination of the three-dimensional structure of objects based on two-dimensional views of them.
- sterically — of or relating to the spatial relationships of atoms in a molecule.
- sterlingly — in a sterling way or manner
- stone lily — a fossil crinoid.
- stone-lily — a fossil crinoid.
- 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
- stylometry — the study of the style of something such as a written text so as to determine the author
- stylophone — a type of battery-powered electronic instrument played with a steel-tipped penlike stylus
- subacutely — in a subacute manner
- sumerology — the study of the history, language, and culture of the Sumerians.
- sun valley — a village in S central Idaho: winter resort.
- 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.
- superiorly — higher in station, rank, degree, importance, etc.: a superior officer.
- suppletory — supplying a deficiency.
- supplyment — the act of supplying; replenishment
- supposedly — assumed as true, regardless of fact; hypothetical: a supposed case.
- surreality — of, relating to, or characteristic of surrealism, an artistic and literary style; surrealistic.
- sweetishly — in a sweetish manner
- sylphidine — resembling a sylph
- sylvestral — growing, living, or occurring in a wood or beneath a tree
- symbolises — to be a symbol of; stand for or represent in the manner of a symbol.
- symbolizer — a person or thing that symbolizes something else
- symbolizes — to be a symbol of; stand for or represent in the manner of a symbol.
- synaloepha — the blending of two successive vowels into one, especially the coalescence of a vowel at the end of one word with a vowel at the beginning of the next.