10-letter words containing l, i, s, c
- semipublic — partly or to some degree public.
- septicidal — (of a capsule) dehiscing lengthwise along a septum.
- set chisel — a chisel having a broad edge at the end of a tapered shaft; used to cut the heads off bolts, rivets, etc.
- sex clinic — a health centre where people can go for advice about sexual matters, contraception, sexually transmitted infections, etc
- shift lock — a typewriter or computer key that locks the shift key in depressed position.
- ship canal — a canal navigable by ships.
- shockingly — causing intense surprise, disgust, horror, etc.
- shopaholic — a frequent shopper, especially one who is unable to control his or her spending.
- shylockian — a relentless and revengeful moneylender in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
- shylocking — a relentless and revengeful moneylender in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
- sialagogic — encouraging salivary flow.
- sicilienne — a type of silk material
- sick leave — leave from duty, work, or the like, granted because of illness.
- sickle bar — cutter bar (def 1).
- sicklebill — any of various birds having a long, curved bill, as the long-billed curlew or curve-billed thrasher.
- sicklemias — the usually asymptomatic hereditary condition that occurs when a person inherits from only one parent the abnormal hemoglobin gene characteristic of sickle cell anemia.
- sickliness — not strong; unhealthy; ailing.
- sieve cell — an elongated cell whose walls contain perforations (sieve pores) that are arranged in circumscribed areas (sieve plates) and that afford communication with similar adjacent cells.
- silent cop — a small hemispherical traffic marker at an intersection
- silica gel — a highly adsorbent gelatinous form of silica, used chiefly as a dehumidifying and dehydrating agent.
- siliculose — bearing silicles.
- silkscreen — Also called silkscreen process. a printmaking technique in which a mesh cloth is stretched over a heavy wooden frame and the design, painted on the screen by tusche or affixed by stencil, is printed by having a squeegee force color through the pores of the material in areas not blocked out by a glue sizing.
- silverback — an older male gorilla, usually the leader of a troop, whose hairs along the back turn gray with age.
- simoniacal — a person who practices simony.
- 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.
- simplicial — relating to simplexes
- simplicity — the state, quality, or an instance of being simple.
- simplicius — Saint, died a.d. 483, pope 468–483.
- simplistic — characterized by extreme simplism; oversimplified: a simplistic notion of good and bad.
- simulacral — simulacrum.
- simulacrum — a slight, unreal, or superficial likeness or semblance.
- single-cut — noting a file having a series of parallel cutting ridges in one direction only.
- sipunculid — an invertebrate of the phylum Sipuncula, comprising the peanut worms.
- siren call — the appeal that something has although it is harmful or dangerous
- skeletonic — resembling a skeleton
- skin color — tone of complexion
- skin flick — a motion picture that features nudity and usually scenes of explicit sexual activity.
- slack suit — a man's suit for casual wear consisting of slacks and a matching shirt or loose-fitting jacket.
- slackening — an act of becoming looser
- slactivism — the public proclaiming of one's political beliefs through activities that require little effort or commitment
- sling-back — Also called sling. a woman's shoe with an open back and a strap or sling encircling the heel of the foot to keep the shoe secure.
- slip a cog — (not in technical use) a gear tooth, formerly especially one of hardwood or metal, fitted into a slot in a gearwheel of less durable material.
- slow pitch — a variety of softball in which the ball is pitched with an underhand motion at moderate speed in an arc that rises at least six feet above the ground
- slow-pitch — a type of softball with ten players per side and in which each pitch must travel in an arc from three to ten feet high.
- sluice-box — an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
- sluicegate — an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
- small pica — (formerly) a size of printer's type approximately equal to 11 point
- smock mill — a windmill with sails and shaft carried by a cap rotating on an octagonal tower.
- socdoliger — a conclusive argument, a hard blow
- social bee — any of several bees, as the honeybees or bumblebees, that live together in communities.