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10-letter words containing s, a, l, e, r, o

  • sailorless — (of a ship) crewless
  • sailorlike — resembling a sailor
  • saliferous — containing or producing salt: saliferous strata.
  • salt horse — salted beef; salt junk.
  • saltarello — a lively Italian dance for one person or a couple.
  • salverform — (of the corolla of the phlox and certain other flowers) consisting of a narrow tube with flat spreading terminal petals
  • sandlotter — a youngster who plays baseball in a sandlot.
  • sandroller — a North American fresh-water fish, Percopsis transmontana, related to the troutperch but having a deeper, more compressed body.
  • sarcolemma — the membranous sheath of a muscle fiber.
  • sarcophile — a flesh-eating animal, especially the Tasmanian devil.
  • savile row — a street in Mayfair, London, famous for expensive and fashionable clothes shops
  • scaleboard — a very thin board, as for the back of a picture.
  • sclerotial — a vegetative, resting food-storage body in certain higher fungi, composed of a compact mass of hardened mycelia.
  • scrollable — able to be scrolled
  • scrollhead — billethead.
  • 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.
  • slanderous — defamation; calumny: rumors full of slander.
  • slot racer — slot car.
  • sloth bear — a coarse-haired, long-snouted bear, Ursus ursinus, of India and Indochina: now rare.
  • small-bore — of, noting, or relating to a .22-caliber firearm.
  • snail bore — drill1 (def 5).
  • 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 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.
  • solidarize — to unite or come together; become solidified.
  • somersault — an acrobatic movement, either forward or backward, in which the body rolls end over end, making a complete revolution.
  • speculator — a person who is engaged in commercial or financial speculation.
  • spheroidal — pertaining to a spheroid or spheroids.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • streamflow — the water that flows in a specific stream site, especially its volume and rate of flow.
  • strobilate — to undergo strobilation
  • superalloy — an alloy, often with a nickel, nickel-iron, or cobalt base, capable of withstanding very high temperatures, used in jet engines, rockets, etc.
  • telomerase — an enzyme, active chiefly in tumors and reproductive cells, that causes telomeres to lengthen: facilitates cell division and may account for the immortality of cancer cells.
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