10-letter words containing o, r, d, e, s
- rood spire — a spire over the crossing of a church.
- rootedness — having roots.
- rope's end — a short piece of rope, esp as formerly used for flogging sailors
- rose aphid — a dark green aphid, Macrosiphum rosae, that feeds on roses and related plants.
- roundheels — a prostitute.
- roundhouse — a building for the servicing and repair of locomotives, built around a turntable in the form of some part of a circle.
- routinised — to develop into a regular procedure.
- rudderpost — the vertical member of a stern frame on which the rudder is hung; a sternpost.
- rush order — an order for goods required urgently
- sacerdotal — of priests; priestly.
- sacred cow — an individual, organization, institution, etc., considered to be exempt from criticism or questioning.
- saddleroom — a room for storing saddlery
- saddlesore — feeling sore or stiff from horseback riding.
- sandgroper — a nickname for a Western Australian
- sandgrouse — any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young.
- sandlotter — a youngster who plays baseball in a sandlot.
- sandroller — a North American fresh-water fish, Percopsis transmontana, related to the troutperch but having a deeper, more compressed body.
- sanforized — (of a fabric) preshrunk using a patented process
- sarcodines — belonging or pertaining to the protist phylum Sarcodina, comprising protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopodia.
- scaleboard — a very thin board, as for the back of a picture.
- scherzando — (a musical direction) playful; sportive.
- scleroderm — a fish of the sclerodermi tribe
- score card — sport: card for recording results
- score draw — A score draw is the result of a football match in which both teams score at least one goal, and they score the same number of goals.
- scoreboard — a large, usually rectangular board in a ballpark, sports arena, or the like, that shows the score of a contest and often other relevant facts and figures, as the count of balls and strikes on a baseball batter.
- scorpaenid — belonging or pertaining to the Scorpaenidae, a family of marine fishes with spiny fins, including the rockfishes, scorpionfishes, and lionfishes.
- scrapegood — a stingy person; a miser
- scrollhead — billethead.
- search dog — a dog trained to assist rescue workers in finding people buried under rubble by detection by smell
- second row — the forwards in the second row of a scrum
- second-run — designating or of:
- seed coral — coral fragments used for jewelry.
- semifreddo — a partially frozen Italian dessert similar to ice cream
- send forth — to be a source of; cause to appear; give out or forth; produce, emit, utter, etc.
- send round — to cause, permit, or enable to go: to send a messenger; They sent their son to college.
- shore bird — a bird that frequents seashores, estuaries, etc., as the snipe, sandpiper, plover, and turnstone; a limicoline bird.
- short code — (language) (SHORTCODE) A pseudocode interpreter for mathematics problems, designed by John Mauchly in 1949 to execute on Eckert and Mauchly's BINAC and later on UNIVAC I and II. Short Code was possibly the first attempt at a high level language.
- short head — a distance shorter than the length of a horse's head
- shortbread — a butter cookie commonly made in thick, pie-shaped wheels or rolled and cut in fancy shapes.
- showerhead — a brief fall of rain or, sometimes, of hail or snow.
- shrovetide — the three days before Ash Wednesday, once a time of confession and absolution.
- side horse — pommel horse.
- side order — restaurant: dish served as accompaniment
- sideboards — a piece of furniture, as in a dining room, often with shelves, drawers, etc., for holding articles of table service.
- sideration — sudden paralysis of a part of the body
- siderocyte — an erythrocyte that contains iron in forms other than hematin.
- siderolite — stony-iron meteorite.
- siderostat — a telescopic device for reflecting the light of a star in a constant direction, the chief component of which is a plane mirror turned by a clock mechanism to correct for the rotation of the earth.
- sidestroke — a stroke in which the body is turned sideways in the water, the hands pull alternately, and the legs perform a scissors kick.
- sisterhood — the state of being a sister.