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