10-letter words containing o, s, t, e, i
- sclerotial — a vegetative, resting food-storage body in certain higher fungi, composed of a compact mass of hardened mycelia.
- sclerotium — a vegetative, resting food-storage body in certain higher fungi, composed of a compact mass of hardened mycelia.
- sclerotize — to harden and darken (an insect's cuticle)
- scots pine — a coniferous tree, Pinus sylvestris, of Europe and W and N Asia, having blue-green needle-like leaves and brown cones with a small prickle on each scale: a valuable timber tree
- seal point — a Siamese cat having a fawn-colored body and dark-brown points.
- seal-point — a Siamese cat having a fawn-colored body and dark-brown points.
- sectioning — a part that is cut off or separated.
- sectionize — to form or divide into sections
- see action — to participate in military combat
- semeiotics — semiotics.
- semi-moist — moderately or slightly wet; damp.
- semination — a sowing or impregnating; dissemination.
- semiotical — of or relating to signs.
- semipostal — a postage stamp sold by a government at a premium above its face value, the excess being used for a nonpostal purpose, as a charity.
- senatorial — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or befitting a senator or senate: senatorial oratory.
- senioritis — Informal: Facetious. a decline in motivation or academic performance that supposedly afflicts some seniors in high school, especially in their last term.
- separation — an act or instance of separating or the state of being separated.
- septillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 24 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 42 zeros.
- serologist — the science dealing with the immunological properties and actions of serum.
- serotinous — late in occurring, developing, or flowering.
- setiferous — having setae or bristles.
- setigerous — having setae or bristles.
- sexologist — the study of sexual behavior.
- sextillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 21 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 36 zeros.
- sextonship — the office of a sexton
- shibboleth — a peculiarity of pronunciation, behavior, mode of dress, etc., that distinguishes a particular class or set of persons.
- shoestring — a shoelace.
- shopfitter — a worker who makes and installs fittings for commercial premises
- shoplifter — a person who steals goods from the shelves or displays of a retail store while posing as a customer.
- short line — a bus or rail route covering only a limited distance.
- short time — a period or schedule during which the number of working hours is reduced: The recession has put most of the manufacturing plants on short time.
- short-life — not designed to last
- shortening — butter, lard, or other fat, used to make pastry, bread, etc., short.
- shot noise — random fluctuations in the emission of electrons from a hot cathode, causing a hissing or sputtering sound (shot noise) in an audio amplifier and causing snow on a television screen.
- shrovetide — the three days before Ash Wednesday, once a time of confession and absolution.
- 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.
- signposted — A place or route that is signposted has signposts beside the road to show the way.
- silent cop — a small hemispherical traffic marker at an intersection
- silhouette — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
- silvertone — made to resemble silver in color, sheen, etc.
- single out — only one in number; one only; unique; sole: a single example.
- sisterhood — the state of being a sister.
- sitosterol — any of five steroid alcohols having the formula C 2 2 H 5 0 O, especially the beta form, obtained from various plant sources: used in organic synthesis.
- six-footer — a person who is roughly six feet tall.
- six-storey — having six floors or storeys
- skeletonic — resembling a skeleton