10-letter words containing r, o, s, i, e, l
- rosemaling — decorative work of Norwegian folk origin consisting of painted or carved floral designs, as on furniture or woodwork.
- rossellini — Roberto [ruh-bair-toh;; Italian raw-ber-taw] /rəˈbɛər toʊ;; Italian rɔˈbɛr tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1906–77, Italian motion-picture director.
- russophile — a person who is friendly to, admires, or prefers Russia or Russian customs, institutions, etc.
- sailboater — a person who sails a boat
- sailorless — (of a ship) crewless
- sailorlike — resembling a sailor
- saliferous — containing or producing salt: saliferous strata.
- sarcophile — a flesh-eating animal, especially the Tasmanian devil.
- savile row — a street in Mayfair, London, famous for expensive and fashionable clothes shops
- 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)
- scrobicule — a small pit, for example around one of a sea urchin's nodules
- scrollwise — like a scroll, in a way similar to a scroll
- 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.
- serologist — the science dealing with the immunological properties and actions of serum.
- 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-life — not designed to last
- siderolite — stony-iron meteorite.
- signorelli — Luca [loo-kah] /ˈlu kɑ/ (Show IPA), c1445–1523, Italian painter.
- silkgrower — a person who breeds silkworms for their silk
- silver fox — a red fox in the color phase in which the fur is black with silver-gray ends on the longer hairs.
- silverhorn — any of various usually darkish caddis flies of the family Leptoceridae, characterized by very long pale antennae. The larvae are a favourite food of trout
- silvertone — made to resemble silver in color, sheen, etc.
- silverwork — fine or decorative work executed in silver.
- simferopol — a city in S Ukraine, on the S Crimean Peninsula.
- sine prole — without offspring or progeny: to die sine prole.
- 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.
- slide over — to cross by or as if by sliding
- slobbering — to let saliva or liquid run from the mouth; slaver; drivel.
- smoldering — to burn without flame; undergo slow or suppressed combustion.
- snail bore — drill1 (def 5).
- snorkeling — Also called, British, snort. a device permitting a submarine to remain submerged for prolonged periods, consisting of tubes extended above the surface of the water to take in air for the diesel engine and for general ventilation and to discharge exhaust gases and foul air.
- socdoliger — a conclusive argument, a hard blow
- socializer — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- sock-liner — a thin piece of material, as leather, that is laid on top of the insole of a shoe, boot, or other footwear.
- soil creep — creep of soil on even slopes; often accelerated by spring freeze-and-thaw or general periglacial conditions. Compare creep (def 22a).
- solderings — any parts which have been soldered together
- soldier on — a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
- soldiering — a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
- solemnizer — to perform the ceremony of (marriage).
- solidarize — to unite or come together; become solidified.
- somerville — Mary Fairfax Greig [greg] /grɛg/ (Show IPA), 1780–1872, Scottish mathematician and astronomer.
- sortileger — a diviner
- sourdeline — a type of bagpipe
- spheroidal — pertaining to a spheroid or spheroids.
- spill over — be full of: emotion