10-letter words containing r, e, a, d, s
- ship-bread — hardtack.
- 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.
- shreadhead — jerkinhead.
- siad barre — Muhammad, 1919–1995, Somali army officer and political leader: president 1969–91.
- side chair — a straight-backed chair without arms.
- 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
- 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.
- sidestream — (of cigarette smoke) inhaled by passive smokers
- sight-read — Someone who can sight-read can play or sing music from a printed sheet the first time they see it, without practising it beforehand.
- signal red — pimento (def 3).
- skateboard — a device for riding upon, usually while standing, consisting of a short, oblong piece of wood, plastic, or aluminum mounted on large roller-skate wheels, used on smooth surfaces and requiring better balance of the rider than the ordinary roller skate does.
- skedaddler — a person or thing that skedaddles.
- slanderers — defamation; calumny: rumors full of slander.
- slanderous — defamation; calumny: rumors full of slander.
- smaragdine — of or relating to emeralds.
- smaragdite — a green, foliated member of the amphibole group.
- smartdrive — (storage, product) A Microsoft MS DOS disk cache program to speed up disk access. For most users, a 1MB cache is sufficient. Devoting more memory to the cache offers diminishing returns, since the additional cache hits become fewer (and the extra memory could be better used to reduce swapping). Typing SMARTDRV /S at a DOS prompt shows the cache size, a hit-and-miss report, and information about which drives are being cached. The hit-and-miss statistics are crucial for gauging the effectiveness of SmartDrive settings. A score in the high 80s shows that SmartDrive is well configured. Run SMARTDRV /S several times during a Windows session and note the-hit-and-miss figures each time. If your percentage usually falls below 80 percent, you should consider increasing the cache size. You can edit the SMARTDRV line in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file to increase both the InitCacheSize and the WinCacheSize parameters. SmartDrive Monitor is an undocumented Windows program that comes with DOS 6.0 for logging and controling the cache.
- smear word — a slanderous, vilifying epithet.
- smokeboard — a board situated above a fireplace to prevent the emission of smoke into a room
- snare drum — a small double-headed drum, carried at the side or placed on a stationary stand, having snares across the lower head to produce a rattling or reverberating effect.
- soda bread — an Irish quick bread leavened with baking soda, usually made with buttermilk.
- 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.
- soda water — an effervescent beverage consisting of water charged with carbon dioxide.
- sodertalje — a city in SE Sweden: suburb of Stockholm.
- solidarize — to unite or come together; become solidified.
- sordamente — (of a piece of music) to be played softly or gently
- sour-faced — bad-tempered and unfriendly
- spear side — the male side, or line of descent, of a family (opposed to distaff side or spindle side).
- speed gear — an adjustable gear for driving a machine at various speeds.
- speed ramp — a raised band across a road, designed to make motorists reduce their speed, esp in built-up areas
- speed trap — a section of a road where hidden police, radar, etc., carefully check the speed of motorists and strictly enforce traffic regulations: sometimes characterized by hard-to-see signals, hidden traffic signs, etc.
- speedfreak — an addict or habitual user of amphetamines, methamphetamines, or similar stimulating drugs.
- spermaduct — a spermatic passage found in male animals
- spermatoid — resembling sperm.
- spheroidal — pertaining to a spheroid or spheroids.
- spinigrade — a type of spiny echinoderm
- spread out — extend, splay
- spreadable — capable of being spread; easily spread: a soft, spreadable cheese.
- springdale — a city in NW Arkansas.
- springhead — a spring or fountainhead from which a stream flows.
- squanderer — to spend or use (money, time, etc.) extravagantly or wastefully (often followed by away).
- square rod — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one rod on each side.
- squarehead — a stupid person.
- squaretoed — having a broad, square toe, as a shoe.
- stableford — a scoring system in which points are awarded according to the number of strokes taken at each hole, whereby a hole completed in one stroke over par counts as one point, a hole completed in level par counts as two points, etc
- stadholder — the chief magistrate of the former republic of the United Provinces of the Netherlands.
- stadimeter — an instrument for determining the distance between an observer and an object of known height by measurement of the angle subtended by the object.