10-letter words containing l, s, m
- semipostal — a postage stamp sold by a government at a premium above its face value, the excess being used for a nonpostal purpose, as a charity.
- semipublic — partly or to some degree public.
- semiweekly — occurring, done, appearing, or published twice a week: semiweekly visits.
- semiyearly — semiannual (def 1).
- semmelweis — Ignaz Philipp [ig-nahts fee-lip] /ˈɪg nɑts ˈfi lɪp/ (Show IPA), 1818–65, Hungarian obstetrician.
- sensualism — subjection to sensual appetites; sensuality.
- serrasalmo — a member of the Serrasalmo genus of piranha fish, native to South America
- sesame oil — a yellow oil expressed from the seeds of the sesame, used in cooking, as a vehicle for medicines, and in the manufacture of margarine, soap, and cosmetics.
- settlement — the act or state of settling or the state of being settled.
- sex manual — a book which explains how to perform sexual intercourse and other sexual practices
- sex symbol — a celebrity who is held to possess abundant sex appeal.
- shamefully — causing shame: shameful behavior.
- sheet film — a flat piece of film cut to a required size before being loaded into a camera.
- sheetmetal — metal in sheets or thin plates.
- shelf mark — a symbol indicating the location of a work on a shelf.
- shell game — a sleight-of-hand swindling game resembling thimblerig but employing walnut shells or the like instead of thimblelike cups.
- shot metal — lead hardened with antimony and arsenic, used to manufacture shot for cartridges.
- shrew mole — a grayish-black mole, Neurotrichus gibbsii, of the western coast of the U.S. and Canada, that grows to a length of about 3 inches (7.6 cm).
- shrimplike — any of several small, long-tailed, chiefly marine crustaceans of the decapod suborder Natania, certain species of which are used as food.
- 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.
- signalment — a detailed description, especially of distinctive features, of a person for identification, usually for police purposes.
- simferopol — a city in S Ukraine, on the S Crimean Peninsula.
- similarity — the state of being similar; likeness; resemblance.
- similative — implying likeness
- similitude — likeness; resemblance: a similitude of habits.
- simillimum — (in homeopathy) the remedy most likely to restore to health
- 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.
- simple vow — a public vow taken by a religious, under which property may be retained and marriage, though held to be illicit, is valid under canon law.
- simpleness — easy to understand, deal with, use, etc.: a simple matter; simple tools.
- simplicial — relating to simplexes
- simplicity — the state, quality, or an instance of being simple.
- simplicius — Saint, died a.d. 483, pope 468–483.
- simplified — to make less complex or complicated; make plainer or easier: to simplify a problem.
- simplistic — characterized by extreme simplism; oversimplified: a simplistic notion of good and bad.
- simulacral — simulacrum.
- simulacrum — a slight, unreal, or superficial likeness or semblance.
- simulation — imitation or enactment, as of something anticipated or in testing.
- simulative — to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like): to simulate crisis conditions.
- simulatory — to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like): to simulate crisis conditions.
- single man — an individual checker restricted to forward moves, as contrasted with a king.
- sinsemilla — marijuana from seedless female hemp plants that contain very high levels of THC.
- skimmingly — by way of skimming; superficially
- skimpingly — in a manner marked by skimpiness
- slactivism — the public proclaiming of one's political beliefs through activities that require little effort or commitment
- slam dance — a dance performed to punk rock by groups of people who flail and toss themselves about and slam into one another.
- slammerkin — a woman's loose dress
- slime mold — any of various funguslike organisms belonging to the phylum Myxomycota, of the kingdom Protista (or the plant class Myxomycetes), characterized by a noncellular, multinucleate, creeping somatic phase and a propagative phase in which fruiting bodies are produced bearing spores that are covered by cell walls.
- slipstream — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
- slot meter — a meter into which coins are inserted, in advance, to pay for electricity (as opposed to a meter that records the amount of electricity the customer has used, for which they are later billed, usually each quarter)