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

  • resonation — to resound.
  • respirator — a masklike device, usually of gauze, worn over the mouth, or nose and mouth, to prevent the inhalation of noxious substances or the like.
  • restharrow — a low, pink-flowered European shrub, Ononis spinosa, of the legume family, having tough roots that hinder the plow or harrow.
  • restorable — to bring back into existence, use, or the like; reestablish: to restore order.
  • revisional — the act or work of revising.
  • rhapsodize — to talk with extravagant enthusiasm.
  • rheostatic — an adjustable resistor so constructed that its resistance may be changed without opening the circuit in which it is connected, thereby controlling the current in the circuit.
  • rise above — to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
  • road sense — the ability to be a safe driver or pedestrian
  • roast beef — cow's meat cooked in oven
  • roberdsman — a robber
  • rock snake — any large Australasian python of the genus Liasis
  • roman nose — a nose having a prominent upper part or bridge.
  • romanesque — noting or pertaining to the style of architecture prevailing in western or southern Europe from the 9th through the 12th centuries, characterized by heavy masonry construction with narrow openings, features such as the round arch, the groin vault, and the barrel vault, and the introduction or development of the vaulting rib, the vaulting shaft, and central and western towers for churches.
  • roof space — the attic space inside a roof
  • room rates — the rates charged daily for hotel rooms
  • root cause — origin
  • rosaniline — a red dye, C 2 0 H 2 0 N 3 Cl, derived from aniline and orthotoluidine, a constituent of fuchsin.
  • rosary pea — a woody tropical vine, Abrus precatorius , of the legume family, having extremely poisonous scarlet and black seeds that are used for beads and a root used as a substitute for licorice.
  • rose aphid — a dark green aphid, Macrosiphum rosae, that feeds on roses and related plants.
  • rose apple — any of various tropical trees belonging to the genus Syzygium, of the myrtle family, especially S. jambos, of the East Indies, having showy, greenish-white flowers and oval, yellowish fruit.
  • rose topaz — a rose-pink form of topaz produced by heating yellow-brown topaz
  • rose-water — having the aroma or fragrance of rose water.
  • rosemaling — decorative work of Norwegian folk origin consisting of painted or carved floral designs, as on furniture or woodwork.
  • rosemaries — a female given name.
  • rostellate — having a rostellum.
  • rouseabout — an unskilled labourer in a shearing shed
  • rubiaceous — belonging to the Rubiaceae, the madder family of plants.
  • saccharose — sucrose.
  • sacerdotal — of priests; priestly.
  • sacramento — a state in the W United States, on the Pacific coast. 158,693 sq. mi. (411,015 sq. km). Capital: Sacramento. Abbreviation: CA (for use with zip code), Cal., Calif.
  • sacred cow — an individual, organization, institution, etc., considered to be exempt from criticism or questioning.
  • saddleroom — a room for storing saddlery
  • saddlesore — feeling sore or stiff from horseback riding.
  • sailboater — a person who sails a boat
  • 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
  • samothrace — a Greek island in the NE Aegean.
  • sandgroper — a nickname for a Western Australian
  • sandgrouse — any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young.
  • 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.
  • sanforized — (of a fabric) preshrunk using a patented process
  • saponifier — to convert (a fat) into soap by treating with an alkali.
  • saprogenic — producing putrefaction or decay, as certain bacteria.
  • saprophyte — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
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