10-letter words containing s, e, l, c, t
- sluicegate — an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
- smart alec — smart aleck.
- smart-alec — smart aleck.
- societally — noting or pertaining to large social groups, or to their activities, customs, etc.
- soft scale — any of numerous homopterous insect pests of the family Coccidae, as leafhoppers, aphids, and whiteflies, that are destructive to crops, shade and fruit trees, and various houseplants.
- solacement — a comfort or consolation
- solenocyte — a type of long, narrow, flagellated cell that functions in excretion of nitrogenous wastes and occurs in a variety of organisms, including certain annelids and mollusks.
- solicitude — the state of being solicitous; anxiety or concern.
- solonetzic — characteristic of solonetz
- specialist — a person who devotes himself or herself to one subject or to one particular branch of a subject or pursuit.
- speciality — specialty.
- spectacled — wearing spectacles.
- spectacles — anything presented to the sight or view, especially something of a striking or impressive kind: The stars make a fine spectacle tonight.
- spectrally — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
- speculated — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- speculator — a person who is engaged in commercial or financial speculation.
- sphacelate — affected with gangrene
- spiculated — covered with spicules or needle-like
- spiflicate — to destroy; annihilate
- split cane — bamboo split into strips of triangular section, tapered, and glued to form a stiff but flexible hexagonal rod: used, esp formerly, for making fishing rods
- stalactite — a deposit, usually of calcium carbonate, shaped like an icicle, hanging from the roof of a cave or the like, and formed by the dripping of percolating calcareous water.
- stanchless — not to be stanched.
- starchedly — in a starched manner
- steam coal — coal with relatively high sulfur content, suited for generating steam but not for coking.
- steatocele — a fatty tumour located in the scrotum
- steel-clad — covered with steel; steel-panelled
- stenciling — a device for applying a pattern, design, words, etc., to a surface, consisting of a thin sheet of cardboard, metal, or other material from which figures or letters have been cut out, a coloring substance, ink, etc., being rubbed, brushed, or pressed over the sheet, passing through the perforations and onto the surface.
- stencilize — to make into a stencil.
- stencilled — a device for applying a pattern, design, words, etc., to a surface, consisting of a thin sheet of cardboard, metal, or other material from which figures or letters have been cut out, a coloring substance, ink, etc., being rubbed, brushed, or pressed over the sheet, passing through the perforations and onto the surface.
- sterically — of or relating to the spatial relationships of atoms in a molecule.
- sternalgic — relating to or having sternalgia
- stillicide — a right or duty relating to the drainage of water from the eaves of a roof onto adjacent land
- stone cold — completely cold
- stone-cold — If something that should be warm is stone-cold, it is very cold.
- storm cell — an air mass formed by powerful updrafts and downdrafts moving in convective loops, the smallest unit of a storm system.
- stove coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 1 5/8 to 2 7/16 (about 4 to 6 cm), intermediate between egg coal and chestnut coal.
- subacutely — in a subacute manner
- subarticle — an article that forms part of a larger or main article
- subcentral — near or almost to the center.
- subchelate — having a claw with one pincer longer than the other
- subclavate — somewhat club-shaped.
- subcluster — a number of things of the same kind, growing or held together; a bunch: a cluster of grapes.
- subculture — Bacteriology. to cultivate (a bacterial strain) again on a new medium.
- subdialect — a division of a larger dialect
- sublattice — a set of elements of a lattice, in which each subset of two elements has a least upper bound and a greatest lower bound contained in the given set.
- suboctuple — in the proportion or ratio of one to eight
- sucralfate — a sugar-aluminum complex, C 1 2 H 5 4 Al 1 6 O 7 5 S 8 , used for the treatment of duodenal ulcer.
- supplicate — to pray humbly; make humble and earnest entreaty or petition.
- suspectful — suspicious
- switchable — a slender, flexible shoot, rod, etc., used especially in whipping or disciplining.