10-letter words containing s, e, a, r, o
- sarcodines — belonging or pertaining to the protist phylum Sarcodina, comprising protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopodia.
- sarcolemma — the membranous sheath of a muscle fiber.
- sarcopenia — reduction in muscle tissue as a result of ageing
- sarcophile — a flesh-eating animal, especially the Tasmanian devil.
- sarmentose — having runners.
- 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.
- scherzando — (a musical direction) playful; sportive.
- schongauer — Martin [mahr-tn;; German mahr-teen] /ˈmɑr tn;; German ˈmɑr tin/ (Show IPA), c1430–91, German engraver and painter.
- sclerotial — a vegetative, resting food-storage body in certain higher fungi, composed of a compact mass of hardened mycelia.
- score card — sport: card for recording results
- score draw — A score draw is the result of a football match in which both teams score at least one goal, and they score the same number of goals.
- scoreboard — a large, usually rectangular board in a ballpark, sports arena, or the like, that shows the score of a contest and often other relevant facts and figures, as the count of balls and strikes on a baseball batter.
- scorpaenid — belonging or pertaining to the Scorpaenidae, a family of marine fishes with spiny fins, including the rockfishes, scorpionfishes, and lionfishes.
- scorzonera — a plant of the modern genus Scorzonera, esp S. Hispanica or black salsify, cultivated in Europe for its root which is used as a vegetable
- scrapegood — a stingy person; a miser
- scrollable — able to be scrolled
- scrollhead — billethead.
- sea anchor — any of various devices, as a drogue, that have great resistance to being pulled through the water and are dropped forward of a vessel at the end of a cable to hold the bow into the wind or sea during a storm.
- sea robber — a pirate.
- sea rocket — any of several plants of the related genus Cakile, esp C. maritima, which grow along the seashores of Europe and North America and have mauve, pink, or white flowers
- seaborgium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Sg; atomic number: 106.
- seal brown — a rich, dark brown suggestive of dressed and dyed sealskin.
- search dog — a dog trained to assist rescue workers in finding people buried under rubble by detection by smell
- search out — hunt for, seek
- seat cover — a cover for a seat
- seborrhoea — an excessive and abnormal discharge from the sebaceous glands.
- securocrat — a military or police officer who has the power to influence government policy
- seed coral — coral fragments used for jewelry.
- segregator — an instrument for collecting the urine excreted by one kidney only.
- seignorial — of or relating to a seignior.
- seismogram — a record made by a seismograph.
- semaphoric — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
- 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.
- separation — an act or instance of separating or the state of being separated.
- separatory — serving to separate.
- serrasalmo — a member of the Serrasalmo genus of piranha fish, native to South America
- sex factor — a sex-determining chromosome or gene.
- sexlocular — having six loculi or cells for seeds
- share shop — A share shop is a shop or Internet website where members of the public can buy shares in companies.
- shear zone — Geology. a zone of closely spaced, approximately parallel faults or dispersed displacements.
- shoe cream — cream for polishing shoes
- shopwalker — a floorwalker.
- shore crab — any of numerous crabs that live along the shoreline between the tidemarks, as Hemigrapsus nudus (purple shore crab) of the Pacific coast of North America.
- shore lark — a bird: Eremophila alpestris
- short game — the aspect of golf considered in relation to the ability of a player to hit medium or short shots, as chip shots, pitch shots, and putts, with accuracy. Compare long game (def 1).
- short head — a distance shorter than the length of a horse's head
- short rate — a charge, proportionately higher than the annual rate, made for insurance issued or continued in force by the insured for less than one year.
- short ream — 480 sheets of paper