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

  • sarcodines — belonging or pertaining to the protist phylum Sarcodina, comprising protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopodia.
  • scale down — a succession or progression of steps or degrees; graduated series: the scale of taxation; the social scale.
  • scandalous — disgraceful; shameful or shocking; improper: scandalous behavior in public.
  • scandaroon — a large variety of fancy pigeon having a long thin body and an elongated neck and head
  • scherzando — (a musical direction) playful; sportive.
  • scorpaenid — belonging or pertaining to the Scorpaenidae, a family of marine fishes with spiny fins, including the rockfishes, scorpionfishes, and lionfishes.
  • scotodinia — a dizziness accompanied by a headache and disturbed vision
  • second man — a person who assists the driver in crewing a locomotive
  • secondhand — not directly known or experienced; obtained from others or from books: Most of our knowledge is secondhand.
  • semi-nomad — a member of a people or tribe that has no permanent abode but moves about from place to place, usually seasonally and often following a traditional route or circuit according to the state of the pasturage or food supply.
  • senna pods — the dried fruits of any of these plants, used as a cathartic and laxative
  • shadow pin — a vertical pin set in an azimuth instrument or at the center of a compass card, indicating by the direction of its shadow the azimuth of the sun.
  • shadowland — a land or region of shadows, phantoms, unrealities, or uncertainties: the shadowland of imagination.
  • shake down — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
  • shake-down — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
  • shenandoah — a river flowing NE from N Virginia to the Potomac at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. About 200 miles (322 km) long.
  • short-hand — a method of rapid handwriting using simple strokes, abbreviations, or symbols that designate letters, words, or phrases (distinguished from longhand).
  • sideration — sudden paralysis of a part of the body
  • sinusoidal — Mathematics. of or relating to a sinusoid.
  • sit around — be idle, lounge about
  • slanderous — defamation; calumny: rumors full of slander.
  • smack down — to humble or reprimand (someone who is overstepping bounds)
  • smash down — If you smash down a door, building, or other large heavy object, you hit it hard and break it until it falls on the ground.
  • snapdragon — any plant belonging to the genus Antirrhinum, of the figwort family, especially A. majus, cultivated for its spikes of showy flowers, each having a corolla supposed to resemble the mouth of a dragon.
  • snow board — a board serving as a snow guard.
  • snowblades — a type of skis, about half the length of normal downhill skis and used without poles
  • snowcapped — topped with snow: the snowcapped Alps.
  • soda niter — a white or transparent mineral, sodium nitrate, NaNO 3 , used chiefly as a fertilizer and in the manufacture of sulfuric and nitric acids and potassium nitrate.
  • sodcasting — the practice of playing music through the speakers of a mobile phone in a public space
  • sognafjord — a fjord in the Norwegian Sea in SW Norway: the longest in Norway. 126 miles (203 km) long and up to 4291 feet (1308 meters) deep.
  • soi-disant — calling oneself thus; self-styled.
  • solar pond — a pool with a bottom layer of salt water and top layer of fresh water, designed to capture solar radiation as a source of energy for generating heat or electricity.
  • solar wind — an emanation from the sun's corona consisting of a flow of charged particles, mainly electrons and protons, that interacts with the magnetic field of the earth and other planetary bodies.
  • solenoidal — of or relating to a solenoid.
  • solifidian — a person who maintains that faith alone, without the performance of good works, is all that is necessary for salvation.
  • somaliland — a coastal region in E Africa, including Djibouti, Somalia, and the Ogaden part of Ethiopia.
  • sordamente — (of a piece of music) to be played softly or gently
  • sound head — a mechanism through which film passes in a projector for conversion of the soundtrack into audio-frequency signals that can be amplified and reproduced.
  • sound wave — a longitudinal wave in an elastic medium, especially a wave producing an audible sensation.
  • soundalike — a person or thing that sounds like another, especially a better known or more famous prototype: a whole spate of Elvis Presley soundalikes.
  • soundboard — sounding board.
  • soundscape — the component sounds of an environment.
  • soundstage — a soundproof room or building in which cinematic films are shot
  • soundtrack — the narrow band on one or both sides of a motion-picture film on which sound is recorded.
  • spatangoid — a type of sea urchin
  • sphenoidal — relating to the sphenoid bone
  • splashdown — the landing of a space vehicle in a body of water, especially the ocean.
  • spodomancy — divination by studying ashes
  • spondaical — composed of spondees
  • squadronal — belonging or relating to a squadron or squadrons
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