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

  • 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.
  • smoldering — to burn without flame; undergo slow or suppressed combustion.
  • 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.
  • sneezewood — a tree, Ptaeroxylon utile, native to southern Africa: family Ptaeroxylaceae
  • snow board — a board serving as a snow guard.
  • snow devil — a whirling column of snow
  • snow under — Meteorology. a precipitation in the form of ice crystals, mainly of intricately branched, hexagonal form and often agglomerated into snowflakes, formed directly from the freezing of the water vapor in the air. Compare ice crystals, snow grains, snow pellets.
  • snow-blind — the usually temporary dimming of the sight caused by the glare of reflected sunlight on snow.
  • snowblades — a type of skis, about half the length of normal downhill skis and used without poles
  • snowcapped — topped with snow: the snowcapped Alps.
  • snub-nosed — having a snub nose: a snub-nosed child.
  • 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
  • sodomising — to subject to sodomy; commit sodomy upon.
  • soft drink — a beverage that is not alcoholic or intoxicating and is usually carbonated, as root beer or ginger ale.
  • soft-bound — (of a book) having a thin cardboard, paper, or plastic cover
  • 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.
  • solderings — any parts which have been soldered together
  • soldier on — a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
  • soldiering — a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
  • solemnised — to perform the ceremony of (marriage).
  • 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.
  • son of god — Jesus Christ, especially as the Messiah.
  • sordamente — (of a piece of music) to be played softly or gently
  • soricident — having shrewlike teeth
  • sound bite — a brief, striking remark or statement excerpted from an audiotape or videotape for insertion in a broadcast news story.
  • sound file — an audio file that can be played by a computer or other electronic device
  • sound film — a film on which sound has been or is to be recorded, as for the soundtrack of a motion picture.
  • 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 hole — an opening in the soundboard of a musical stringed instrument, as a violin or lute, for increasing the soundboard's capacity for vibration.
  • sound line — a line fastened to a harpoon and carried down into the water by a whale when sounding
  • 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.
  • soundproof — impervious to sound.
  • 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.
  • sourdeline — a type of bagpipe
  • south bend — a city in N Indiana.
  • south node — the descending node of the moon.
  • southbound — traveling southward.
  • spatangoid — a type of sea urchin
  • speed zone — an area where a different, usually reduced, speed limit is in effect
  • spellbound — bound by or as if by a spell; enchanted, entranced, or fascinated: a spellbound audience.
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