10-letter words containing s, e, g, a
- strigilate — an instrument with a curved blade, used especially by the ancient Greeks and Romans for scraping the skin at the bath and in the gymnasium.
- stringbean — any of various kinds of bean, as the green bean, the unripe pods of which are used as food, usually after stripping off the fibrous thread along the side.
- subaverage — a quantity, rating, or the like that represents or approximates an arithmetic mean: Her golf average is in the 90s. My average in science has gone from B to C this semester.
- subheading — a subordinate division of a title or heading.
- submanager — a secondary or assistant manager
- subtangent — the part of the x-axis cut off between the ordinate of a given point of a curve and the tangent at that point.
- sugar beet — various cultivars of a beet, Beta vulgaris, of the amaranth family, having a white root, cultivated for the sugar it yields.
- sugar cane — a tall grass, Saccharum officinarum, of tropical and warm regions, having a stout, jointed stalk, and constituting the chief source of sugar.
- sugar cube — small block of sugar
- sugar pine — a tall pine, Pinus lambertiana, of California, Oregon, etc., having cones 20 inches (51 cm) long.
- sugar tree — a sugar maple.
- sugar-free — containing no sugar: a sugar-free cola.
- sugarallie — liquorice
- sugarberry — a hackberry, Celtis laevigata, of the southern U.S.
- sugarhouse — a shed or other building where maple syrup or maple sugar is made.
- sunglasses — burning glass.
- superagent — an expert or highly effective agent, esp of a sports player or actor
- supercargo — a merchant-ship officer who is in charge of the cargo and the commercial concerns of the voyage.
- supergiant — Astronomy. supergiant star.
- supergrade — a high-level rank, Grade 16, 17, or 18, in the federal civil service.
- supergrass — criminal informant
- superlarge — extremely large
- supragenic — beyond the limits or above the level of genes.
- surge tank — a large surge chamber.
- surplusage — something that is surplus; an excess amount.
- swaggering — pertaining to, characteristic of, or behaving in the manner of a person who swaggers.
- sweet flag — an aroid marsh plant, Acorus calamus, having swordlike leaves, small greenish flowers, and aromatic roots
- sweet gale — a shrub, Myrica gale, of northern swamp regions, having yellow catkin-like flowers and aromatic leaves: family Myricaceae
- swinglebar — a whiffletree.
- switchgear — switching equipment used in an electric power station.
- tanglesome — tangled
- tape grass — a freshwater plant, Vallisneria spiralis, that has long, ribbonlike leaves and grows under water.
- targetitis — the setting of more targets than is strictly necessary for the effective functioning of an organization, esp when it leads to an increase in bureaucracy
- targetless — an object, usually marked with concentric circles, to be aimed at in shooting practice or contests.
- team games — games that in which teams play against each other
- telferages — telpher.
- test gauge — a measuring instrument that is used in the testing of equipment and in laboratory testing
- texas sage — a slightly woody, hairy plant, Salvia coccinea, of the mint family, native to the southeastern U.S. and tropical America, having elongated clusters of scarlet flowers.
- the grades — elementary school
- thingstead — the meeting place of a Scandinavian assembly.
- tight-arse — an inhibited or excessively self-controlled person
- timesaving — (of methods, devices, etc.) reducing the time spent or required to do something.
- transgenic — of, relating to, or containing a gene or genes transferred from another species: transgenic mice.
- transgress — to violate a law, command, moral code, etc.; offend; sin.
- trapessing — to walk over; tramp: to traipse the fields.
- traversing — to pass or move over, along, or through.
- umbrageous — creating or providing shade; shady: an umbrageous tree.
- unassigned — to give or allocate; allot: to assign rooms at a hotel.
- unassuaged — to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate: to assuage one's grief; to assuage one's pain.
- unpleasing — not pleasing