10-letter words containing r, e, s, t, o
- sooty tern — a black and white tern, Sterna fuscata, of small tropical islands.
- sordamente — (of a piece of music) to be played softly or gently
- soricident — having shrewlike teeth
- sorrentino — Gilbert, 1929–2006, U.S. poet and novelist.
- sortileger — a diviner
- sou'wester — a waterproof hat, often of oilskin, having the brim very broad behind and slanted, worn especially by seamen.
- soubresaut — a jump performed with the legs held together and the body erect but slightly curved to the side.
- soubriquet — sobriquet.
- souterrain — a subterranean passage or structure; grotto.
- southerner — a native or inhabitant of the south.
- southernly — southerly.
- spearpoint — the point at the end of a spearhead.
- spec ratio — (benchmark) Results for each individual benchmark of the SPEC benchmark suites, for example CINT92 and CFP92, expressed as the ratio of the wall clock time to execute one single copy of the benchmark, compared to a fixed "SPEC reference time", which was chosen early-on as the execution time on a VAX 11/780. See also SPEC rate.
- speculator — a person who is engaged in commercial or financial speculation.
- spermatoid — resembling sperm.
- spherocyte — an abnormal blood cell
- spiderwort — any plant of the genus Tradescantia, having blue, purple, or rose-colored flowers.
- spirochete — any of various spiral-shaped motile bacteria of the family Spirochaetaceae, certain species, as Treponema, Leptospira, and Borrelia, being pathogenic to humans and other animals, and other species being free-living, saprophytic, or parasitic.
- spirometer — an instrument for determining the capacity of the lungs.
- spirometry — an instrument for determining the capacity of the lungs.
- spleenwort — any of various temperate and tropical ferns of the genera Asplenium and Diplazium, certain species of which are grown as ornamentals.
- sporocytes — a diploid cell in certain spore-bearing plants, as liverworts, that produces four haploid spores through meiosis; a spore mother cell.
- sporophyte — the form of a plant in the alternation of generations that produces asexual spores.
- sporozoite — one of the minute, active bodies into which the spore of certain Sporozoa divides, each developing into an adult individual.
- sportiness — flashy; showy.
- sportswear — clothing designed for wear while playing golf or tennis, hiking, bicycling, jogging, etc.; activewear.
- spot meter — an exposure meter that measures light reflected from only a small area of a subject or scene.
- spot price — the price of spot goods or of commodities on the spot market.
- spread out — extend, splay
- squaretoed — having a broad, square toe, as a shoe.
- st. george — David Lloyd, Lloyd George, David.
- st.-jerome — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, NW of Montreal.
- 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.
- stage door — a door at the back or side of a theater, used by performers and theater personnel.
- stand over — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
- star route — former name for highway contract route.
- stare down — to gaze fixedly and intently, especially with the eyes wide open.
- starflower — any of several plants having starlike flowers, as the star-of-Bethlehem or a plant belonging to the genus Trientalis of the primrose family.
- starmonger — an astrologer or fortune-teller
- start over — begin again
- statesboro — a town in E Georgia.
- stationery — writing paper.
- staurolite — a mineral, basic iron aluminum silicate, Fe 2 Al 2 O 7 (SiO 4) 4 (OH), occurring in brown to black prismatic crystals, which are often twinned in the form of a cross.
- steam iron — an electric iron with a water chamber, which emits steam onto the fabric or garment being ironed.
- steam room — a steam-filled and heated room to induce sweating, as in a Turkish bath.
- steelworks — an establishment where steel is made and often manufactured into girders, rails, etc.
- stelliform — star-shaped.
- stenograph — any of various keyboard instruments, somewhat resembling a typewriter, used for writing in shorthand, as by means of phonetic or arbitrary symbols.
- stenotherm — an organism that is only able to live within a narrow parameter of temperatures