10-letter words containing r, o, s, a, l
- seal brown — a rich, dark brown suggestive of dressed and dyed sealskin.
- seed coral — coral fragments used for jewelry.
- seignorial — of or relating to a seignior.
- semiformal — partly formal; containing some formal elements: a semiformal occasion; semiformal attire.
- senatorial — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or befitting a senator or senate: senatorial oratory.
- serrasalmo — a member of the Serrasalmo genus of piranha fish, native to South America
- sexlocular — having six loculi or cells for seeds
- shopwalker — a floorwalker.
- shore lark — a bird: Eremophila alpestris
- short sale — an act or instance of selling short.
- short-haul — of, relating to, or engaged in transportation over short distances: a short-haul trucking firm.
- short-laid — hard-laid.
- show trial — (especially in a totalitarian state) the public trial of a political offender conducted chiefly for propagandistic purposes, as to suppress further dissent against the government by making an example of the accused.
- sibilatory — characterized by hissing or whistling
- simulatory — to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like): to simulate crisis conditions.
- sinoatrial — relating to specific tissue in the wall of the right atrium of the heart that acts as a pacemaker
- slanderous — defamation; calumny: rumors full of slander.
- slavocracy — the rule or domination of slaveholders: the slavocracy of the old plantations.
- slot racer — slot car.
- sloth bear — a coarse-haired, long-snouted bear, Ursus ursinus, of India and Indochina: now rare.
- slow march — a march in slow time
- small-bore — of, noting, or relating to a .22-caliber firearm.
- smallsword — a light, tapering sword for thrusting, formerly used in fencing or dueling.
- smallworld — (legal) A trademark of Smallworldwide Plc..
- smart wool — a textile produced by blending wool with a conductive fibre, which can be heated by means of a small battery
- snail bore — drill1 (def 5).
- social war — Greek History. the war between Athens and its confederates, 357–355 b.c.
- socializer — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- sodertalje — a city in SE Sweden: suburb of Stockholm.
- softballer — a person who plays or is an enthusiast of softball.
- solar apex — the point on the celestial sphere, near Vega, toward which the solar system is moving relative to the visible stars.
- solar cell — a photovoltaic cell that converts sunlight directly into electricity.
- solar mass — the unit, equivalent to the mass of the sun, in which the masses of stars and other celestial objects are given: a black hole of one million solar masses.
- solar myth — a myth explaining or allegorizing the origin or movement of the sun
- solar pond — a pool with a bottom layer of salt water and top layer of fresh water, designed to capture solar radiation as a source of energy for generating heat or electricity.
- solar sail — Aerospace. a design concept for spacecraft propulsion consisting of a very thin, very large sheet of highly polished material that would be driven by the pressure of sunlight.
- solar ship — (in ancient Egypt) a boat placed in or near the tomb of a king to transport him to the sun.
- solar wind — an emanation from the sun's corona consisting of a flow of charged particles, mainly electrons and protons, that interacts with the magnetic field of the earth and other planetary bodies.
- solar year — year (def 4b).
- solar-heat — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
- solar-year — a period of 365 or 366 days, in the Gregorian calendar, divided into 12 calendar months, now reckoned as beginning Jan. 1 and ending Dec. 31 (calendar year or civil year) Compare common year, leap year.
- solidarily — characterized by or involving community of responsibilities and interests.
- solidarism — the social theory of the solidarity of interests
- solidarist — a person who adheres to solidarism
- solidarity — union or fellowship arising from common responsibilities and interests, as between members of a group or between classes, peoples, etc.: to promote solidarity among union members.
- solidarize — to unite or come together; become solidified.
- solitarian — a hermit
- solitarily — alone; without companions; unattended: a solitary passer-by.
- somersault — an acrobatic movement, either forward or backward, in which the body rolls end over end, making a complete revolution.
- soya flour — flour made from soya beans