10-letter words containing s, e, t, n, a
- star anise — Also called Chinese anise. a shrub or small tree, Illicium verum, of China, having white flowers that turn purple and bearing anise-scented, star-shaped clusters of carminative fruit.
- stare down — to gaze fixedly and intently, especially with the eyes wide open.
- starmonger — an astrologer or fortune-teller
- starveling — a person, animal, or plant that is starving.
- state bank — a bank chartered by a state and operated under the banking laws of that state.
- state line — A state line is a border between two states within a country.
- stationery — writing paper.
- staudinger — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1881–1965, German chemist: Nobel prize 1953.
- staunchest — firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, etc., as a person: a staunch Republican; a staunch friend.
- steadiness — firmly placed or fixed; stable in position or equilibrium: a steady ladder.
- stealingly — in a stealthy or elusive manner; by stealing
- steam iron — an electric iron with a water chamber, which emits steam onto the fabric or garment being ironed.
- steam-punk — a subgenre of science fiction and fantasy featuring advanced machines and other technology based on steam power of the 19th century and taking place in a recognizable historical period or a fantasy world.
- steel band — a band, native to Trinidad and common in the West Indies, using steel drums cut to various heights and tuned to specific pitches.
- stefansson — Vilhjalmur [vil-hyoul-mer] /ˈvɪlˌhyaʊl mər/ (Show IPA), 1879–1962, U.S. arctic explorer and author, born in Canada.
- steganopod — a bird belonging to the Steganopodes, a group of swimming birds such as pelicans and cormorants
- stenograph — any of various keyboard instruments, somewhat resembling a typewriter, used for writing in shorthand, as by means of phonetic or arbitrary symbols.
- stenopaeic — pertaining to or containing a narrow slit or minute opening: a stenopeic device to aid vision after eye surgery.
- stentorian — very loud or powerful in sound: a stentorian voice.
- step dance — a dance in which the steps are the most important characteristic, specifically a solo dance with intricate, vigorous steps, often performed with the hands kept in the pockets.
- stepdancer — a person who engages in stepdancing
- stephanite — a mineral, silver antimony sulfide, Ag 5 SbS 4 : an ore of silver.
- stepparent — a stepfather or stepmother.
- sternalgia — pain occurring in or around the sternum
- sternalgic — relating to or having sternalgia
- sternboard — a backward motion of a boat
- sterno can — a small can of Sterno
- sternwards — towards the stern; astern
- stewarding — a person who manages another's property or financial affairs; one who administers anything as the agent of another or others.
- stone bass — wreckfish.
- stone crab — an edible crab, Menippe mercenaria, of rocky shores from the southern U.S. to Mexico and certain areas of the Caribbean, prized for the meat of its claws.
- stone dead — undeniably dead; completely lifeless.
- stone deaf — totally deaf.
- stone face — living stones.
- stone-dead — undeniably dead; completely lifeless.
- stone-deaf — totally deaf.
- stonebrash — a type of subsoil consisting of small or broken stones or rock
- stonebreak — any of a variety of plants in the genus Saxifraga
- stonemason — a person who builds with or dresses stone.
- straighten — make straight
- strainedly — in a strained manner
- strainless — to draw tight or taut, especially to the utmost tension; stretch to the full: to strain a rope.
- straitened — to put into difficulties, especially financial ones: His obligations had straitened him.
- strandline — a mark left by the high tide or a line of seaweed and other debris washed onto the beach by the tide
- stranglers — to kill by squeezing the throat in order to compress the windpipe and prevent the intake of air, as with the hands or a tightly drawn cord.
- straw wine — a usually rich or sweet wine produced from grapes partially dried on the vine or picked and dried in the sun on a bed of straw or reeds.
- streamline — a teardrop line of contour offering the least possible resistance to a current of air, water, etc.
- streamling — a small stream
- stresemann — Gustav [goo s-tahf] /ˈgʊs tɑf/ (Show IPA), 1878–1929, German statesman: Nobel Peace Prize 1926.
- 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.