10-letter words containing r, e, a, d, s
- saltigrade — moving by leaping.
- sand perch — squirrelfish.
- sand tiger — any of several sharks of the family Odontaspididae, especially Odontaspis taurus, inhabiting shallow waters on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, having sharp, jagged teeth and sometimes dangerous to humans.
- sand viper — hognose snake.
- sandbagger — a bag filled with sand, used in fortification, as ballast, etc.
- sandbender — [IBM] A person involved with silicon lithography and the physical design of integrated circuits. Compare ironmonger, polygon pusher.
- sanderling — a common, small sandpiper, Calidris alba, inhabiting sandy beaches.
- 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.
- sandpapery — of or suggesting the grating sound of sandpaper rubbing against wood or the rough texture of sandpaper.
- sandroller — a North American fresh-water fish, Percopsis transmontana, related to the troutperch but having a deeper, more compressed body.
- sandsucker — the flatfish Platessa limandoides
- 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.
- scaldberry — the bramble or blackberry, Rubus fruticosus
- scaleboard — a very thin board, as for the back of a picture.
- scanderbeg — (George Castriota) 1403?–68, Albanian chief and revolutionary leader.
- scar-faced — with a face marked by a scar or scars.
- scarabaeid — belonging or pertaining to the Scarabaeidae, a family of lamellicorn beetles, including the scarabs, dung beetles, June bugs, and cockchafers.
- scherzando — (a musical direction) playful; sportive.
- 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
- screenland — filmdom.
- scrollhead — billethead.
- sea cradle — chiton (def 1).
- sea ladder — a set of rungs fixed to the side of a vessel, forming a ladder from the weather deck to the water line.
- sea spider — any member of the arthropod class Pycnogonida, marine invertebrates with eight long walking legs attached to a small body consisting of a cephalothorax and vestigial abdomen.
- search dog — a dog trained to assist rescue workers in finding people buried under rubble by detection by smell
- searedness — the state of being seared or unfeeling
- seed coral — coral fragments used for jewelry.
- seed pearl — a pearl weighing less than ¼ grain.
- seferiades — Giorgos Stylianou [yawr-gaws stee-lyah-noo] /ˈyɔr gɔs ˌsti lyɑˈnu/ (Show IPA), (Giorgos Seferis) 1900–71, Greek poet and diplomat: Nobel Prize in literature 1963.
- segregated — characterized by or practicing racial segregation: a segregated school system.
- self-guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
- semisacred — partly or somewhat sacred; sacred to a limited degree; having some characteristics of the sacred
- serenading — a complimentary performance of vocal or instrumental music in the open air at night, as by a lover under the window of his lady.
- serialised — to publish in serial form.
- serradilla — a variety of clover, Ornithopus sativus, used as fodder for cattle
- sex-crazed — unhealthily obsessed with sexual activity
- shade tree — a tree planted or valued for its shade.
- shade-tree — a tree planted or valued for its shade.
- shagreened — made, covered with, or resembling shagreen
- sharp-eyed — having keen sight or perception.
- shear stud — a stud that transfers shear stress between metal and concrete in composite structural members in which the stud is welded to the metal component
- sherardize — to coat (steel) with a thin cladding of zinc by heating in a mixture of sand and powdered zinc.
- shetlander — a native or inhabitant of Shetland