10-letter words containing l, i, e, g, s
- sialagogue — sialagogic (def 1).
- sialogogue — sialagogic (def 1).
- side-light — an item of incidental information.
- signal red — pimento (def 3).
- signalment — a detailed description, especially of distinctive features, of a person for identification, usually for police purposes.
- signorelli — Luca [loo-kah] /ˈlu kɑ/ (Show IPA), c1445–1523, Italian painter.
- silica gel — a highly adsorbent gelatinous form of silica, used chiefly as a dehumidifying and dehydrating agent.
- silkgrower — a person who breeds silkworms for their silk
- 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.
- silverberg — Robert, born 1935, U.S. science-fiction writer.
- silverling — a shekel or small silver coin
- singhalese — Sinhalese
- single bed — bed for one person
- single man — an individual checker restricted to forward moves, as contrasted with a king.
- single out — only one in number; one only; unique; sole: a single example.
- single tax — a tax, as on land, that constitutes the sole source of public revenue.
- single-cut — noting a file having a series of parallel cutting ridges in one direction only.
- single-end — accommodation consisting of a single room
- single-sex — designated for, pertaining to, or serving only males or only females: a single-sex college.
- single-use — made to be used once only
- singlehood — the status of being unmarried.
- singleness — the state or quality of being single.
- singletree — whiffletree.
- skylighted — having or illuminated by a skylight.
- slackening — an act of becoming looser
- slathering — to spread or apply thickly: to slather butter on toast.
- sleigh bed — a bed resembling a sleigh in shape, with curved boards at the head and foot
- slingstone — a stone fired from a sling
- slip gauge — a very accurately ground block of hardened steel used to measure a gap with close accuracy: used mainly in tool-making and inspection
- 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.
- slobbering — to let saliva or liquid run from the mouth; slaver; drivel.
- sluicegate — an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
- slumbering — to sleep, especially lightly; doze; drowse.
- smoldering — to burn without flame; undergo slow or suppressed combustion.
- sneakingly — acting in a furtive or underhand way.
- sneeringly — to smile, laugh, or contort the face in a manner that shows scorn or contempt: They sneered at his pretensions.
- snivelling — to weep or cry with sniffling.
- snorkeling — Also called, British, snort. a device permitting a submarine to remain submerged for prolonged periods, consisting of tubes extended above the surface of the water to take in air for the diesel engine and for general ventilation and to discharge exhaust gases and foul air.
- socdoliger — a conclusive argument, a hard blow
- solderings — any parts which have been soldered together
- soldiering — a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
- sortileger — a diviner
- speakingly — in an eloquent manner
- spellingly — one letter at a time
- spelunking — to explore caves, especially as a hobby.
- spiderling — the young of a spider.
- spindleage — total number or capacity of spindles in a mill, area, etc.
- 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.
- springdale — a city in NW Arkansas.