10-letter words containing s, e, l, c
- seychelles — a republic consisting of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, NE of Madagascar: a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 175 sq. mi. (455 sq. km). Capital: Victoria.
- shackleton — Sir Ernest Henry, 1874–1922, English explorer of the Antarctic.
- shear cell — A shear cell is a device for testing how a powder or particle mixture flows.
- shell back — an underside of a spoon bowl ornamented with a shell motif.
- shellacked — lac that has been purified and formed into thin sheets, used for making varnish.
- shellshock — loss of sight, memory, etc, resulting from psychological strain during prolonged engagement in warfare
- shellycoat — a mythical creature dressed in shells who haunts rivers and streams
- show-place — an estate, mansion, or the like, usually open to the public, renowned for its beauty, excellent design and workmanship, historical interest, etc.
- sicilienne — a type of silk material
- sick leave — leave from duty, work, or the like, granted because of illness.
- sickle bar — cutter bar (def 1).
- sicklebill — any of various birds having a long, curved bill, as the long-billed curlew or curve-billed thrasher.
- sicklemias — the usually asymptomatic hereditary condition that occurs when a person inherits from only one parent the abnormal hemoglobin gene characteristic of sickle cell anemia.
- sickliness — not strong; unhealthy; ailing.
- sieve cell — an elongated cell whose walls contain perforations (sieve pores) that are arranged in circumscribed areas (sieve plates) and that afford communication with similar adjacent cells.
- silent cop — a small hemispherical traffic marker at an intersection
- silica gel — a highly adsorbent gelatinous form of silica, used chiefly as a dehumidifying and dehydrating agent.
- siliculose — bearing silicles.
- silkscreen — Also called silkscreen process. a printmaking technique in which a mesh cloth is stretched over a heavy wooden frame and the design, painted on the screen by tusche or affixed by stencil, is printed by having a squeegee force color through the pores of the material in areas not blocked out by a glue sizing.
- silverback — an older male gorilla, usually the leader of a troop, whose hairs along the back turn gray with age.
- simple arc — a curve that does not cross itself and has no points missing; a curve that can be put into one-to-one correspondence with the closed interval from 0 to 1.
- single-cut — noting a file having a series of parallel cutting ridges in one direction only.
- siren call — the appeal that something has although it is harmful or dangerous
- skeletonic — resembling a skeleton
- sketchable — suitable for being sketched.
- slackening — an act of becoming looser
- slam dance — a dance performed to punk rock by groups of people who flail and toss themselves about and slam into one another.
- slop chest — a supply of clothing, boots, tobacco, and other personal goods for sale to the crew of a ship during a voyage.
- slot racer — slot car.
- sluice-box — an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
- sluicegate — an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
- small cane — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
- smart alec — smart aleck.
- smart-alec — smart aleck.
- socdoliger — a conclusive argument, a hard blow
- social bee — any of several bees, as the honeybees or bumblebees, that live together in communities.
- socialised — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- socialized — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- socializer — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- socialness — relating to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations: a social club.
- societally — noting or pertaining to large social groups, or to their activities, customs, etc.
- sock-liner — a thin piece of material, as leather, that is laid on top of the insole of a shoe, boot, or other footwear.
- 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.
- soil creep — creep of soil on even slopes; often accelerated by spring freeze-and-thaw or general periglacial conditions. Compare creep (def 22a).
- solacement — a comfort or consolation
- solar cell — a photovoltaic cell that converts sunlight directly into electricity.
- 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
- someplaces — somewhere