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10-letter words containing n, a, s, d

  • standing o — standing ovation
  • standpoint — the point or place at which a person stands to view something.
  • standstill — a state of cessation of movement or action; halt; stop: The ball rolled to a standstill.
  • stare down — to gaze fixedly and intently, especially with the eyes wide open.
  • staudinger — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1881–1965, German chemist: Nobel prize 1953.
  • steadiness — firmly placed or fixed; stable in position or equilibrium: a steady ladder.
  • steel band — a band, native to Trinidad and common in the West Indies, using steel drums cut to various heights and tuned to specific pitches.
  • steganopod — a bird belonging to the Steganopodes, a group of swimming birds such as pelicans and cormorants
  • step dance — a dance in which the steps are the most important characteristic, specifically a solo dance with intricate, vigorous steps, often performed with the hands kept in the pockets.
  • stepdancer — a person who engages in stepdancing
  • sternboard — a backward motion of a boat
  • sternwards — towards the stern; astern
  • stewarding — a person who manages another's property or financial affairs; one who administers anything as the agent of another or others.
  • stone dead — undeniably dead; completely lifeless.
  • stone deaf — totally deaf.
  • stone-dead — undeniably dead; completely lifeless.
  • stone-deaf — totally deaf.
  • strainedly — in a strained manner
  • straitened — to put into difficulties, especially financial ones: His obligations had straitened him.
  • strandflat — a shore platform found along the coasts of Greenland, Iceland and Norway which may have formed as the result of glacial erosion
  • strandline — a mark left by the high tide or a line of seaweed and other debris washed onto the beach by the tide
  • strandwolf — brown hyena.
  • strickland — William, 1787–1854, U.S. architect and engineer.
  • subdeanery — the position or office of a subdean
  • subdecanal — of or relating to a subdean or subdeanery
  • subheading — a subordinate division of a title or heading.
  • submediant — the sixth tone of a diatonic scale, being midway between the subdominant and the upper tonic.
  • subordinal — of, relating to, or ranked as a suborder.
  • subpoenaed — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
  • subtrahend — a number that is subtracted from another.
  • sunderance — to separate; part; divide; sever.
  • sunderland — a seaport in Tyne and Wear, in NE England.
  • super band — the band of frequencies between 216 and 600 megahertz, used for cable television channels and Citizens Band.
  • supplanted — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
  • sutherland — Earl Wilbur, Jr. 1915–74, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1971.
  • sweep hand — a hand, usually a second hand, centrally mounted with the minute and hour hands of a timepiece and reaching to the edge of the dial.
  • swing band — a band that plays swing jazz
  • sword bean — a twining vine, Canavalia gladiata, of the legume family, found in the tropics of the Eastern Hemisphere, having large, showy, pealike flowers and reddish-brown seeds.
  • sword cane — a cane or walking stick having a hollow shaft that serves as a sheath for a sword or dagger.
  • swung dash — a mark of punctuation (∼) used in place of a word or part of a word previously spelled out.
  • synandrium — a peculiar fusion of stamens
  • synandrous — with united stamens
  • syncopated — marked by syncopation: syncopated rhythm.
  • syndactyly — the state of being syndactyl
  • syndicated — a group of individuals or organizations combined or making a joint effort to undertake some specific duty or carry out specific transactions or negotiations: The local furniture store is individually owned, but is part of a buying syndicate.
  • syndicator — a person who establishes a syndicate
  • tandemwise — in the manner of a tandem
  • tantalised — to torment with, or as if with, the sight of something desired but out of reach; tease by arousing expectations that are repeatedly disappointed.
  • tawdriness — (of finery, trappings, etc.) gaudy; showy and cheap.
  • taxi stand — A taxi stand is the same as a taxi rank.
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