10-letter words containing s, e, l, c
- somnolence — sleepy; drowsy.
- song cycle — a group of art songs that are usually all by the same poet and composer and have a unifying subject or idea.
- sophoclean — 495?–406? b.c, Greek dramatist.
- sourceless — any thing or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; origin: Which foods are sources of calcium?
- space walk — When an astronaut goes on a space walk, he or she leaves the spacecraft and works outside it while floating in space.
- specialise — to pursue some special line of study, work, etc.; have a specialty: The doctor specializes in gastroenterology.
- specialism — devotion or restriction to a particular pursuit, branch of study, etc.
- specialist — a person who devotes himself or herself to one subject or to one particular branch of a subject or pursuit.
- speciality — specialty.
- specialize — to pursue some special line of study, work, etc.; have a specialty: The doctor specializes in gastroenterology.
- speciously — apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible: specious arguments.
- 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.
- speechless — temporarily deprived of speech by strong emotion, physical weakness, exhaustion, etc.: speechless with alarm.
- spellcheck — If you spellcheck something you have written on a computer, you use a special program to check whether you have made any spelling mistakes.
- sperm cell — spermatozoon.
- sphacelate — affected with gangrene
- spice lisp — (language) A flavour of Lisp, the sources of which (in Lisp) are available from CMU.
- 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
- spongocoel — the central cavity in the body of a sponge.
- squelching — to strike or press with crushing force; crush down; squash.
- 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.
- sub-clause — Grammar. a syntactic construction containing a subject and predicate and forming part of a sentence or constituting a whole simple sentence.
- subacutely — in a subacute manner
- subarticle — an article that forms part of a larger or main article
- subcaliber — noting or pertaining to ammunition of smaller caliber than the gun in which it is used.
- subcalibre — (of a projectile) having a calibre less than that of the firearm from which it is discharged and therefore either fitted with a disc or fired through a tube inserted into the barrel
- subceiling — a ceiling placed on a subdivision of a category; a sublimit
- subcentral — near or almost to the center.
- subchelate — having a claw with one pincer longer than the other