10-letter words containing s, i, l, o
- somerville — Mary Fairfax Greig [greg] /grɛg/ (Show IPA), 1780–1872, Scottish mathematician and astronomer.
- somniloquy — the act of talking in one's sleep
- son-in-law — the husband of one's daughter.
- soothingly — that soothes: a soothing voice.
- sopaipilla — a small pastry made of deep-fried yeast dough and usually dipped in honey.
- sortileger — a diviner
- soul music — a fervent type of popular music developed in the late 1950s by black Americans as a secularized form of gospel music, with rhythm-and-blues influences, and distinctive for its earthy expressiveness, variously plaintive or raucous vocals, and often passionate romanticism or sensuality.
- sound file — an audio file that can be played by a computer or other electronic device
- sound film — a film on which sound has been or is to be recorded, as for the soundtrack of a motion picture.
- sound line — a line fastened to a harpoon and carried down into the water by a whale when sounding
- soundalike — a person or thing that sounds like another, especially a better known or more famous prototype: a whole spate of Elvis Presley soundalikes.
- sourdeline — a type of bagpipe
- southfield — a city in SE Michigan, W of Detroit.
- spallation — a nuclear reaction in which several nucleons are released from the nucleus of an atom.
- spaniolize — to cause to become Spanish
- spark coil — a coil of many turns of insulated wire on an iron core, used for producing sparks.
- speciously — apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible: specious arguments.
- sphenoidal — relating to the sphenoid bone
- spheroidal — pertaining to a spheroid or spheroids.
- spill over — be full of: emotion
- spillproof — (of a container) designed to prevent spilling.
- splintwood — a thin flexible wood often used for making baskets
- split roll — a taxation under which real-estate taxes on business and industrial buildings are levied at higher rates than on residential homes.
- spoil bank — a bank of excavated refuse or waste earth, as of shale from surface coal mining.
- spoilsport — a person whose selfish or unsportsmanlike attitudes or actions spoil the pleasure of others, as in a game or social gathering.
- spoliation — the act or an instance of plundering or despoiling.
- spoliative — blood-diminishing
- spondaical — composed of spondees
- sponsional — relating to, involved in or entering into a sponsion
- spoon nail — an abnormal condition in which the outer surfaces of the nails are concave; koilonychia.
- sporadical — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- sporicidal — a substance or preparation for killing spores.
- sportingly — engaging in, disposed to, or interested in open-air or athletic sports: a rugged, sporting man.
- springlock — a lock that fastens automatically by a spring.
- spuriously — not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit.
- sqlwindows — (programming, product) A package used to graphically develop MS-Windows client-server applications. Sold by Gupta Corporation.
- staurolite — a mineral, basic iron aluminum silicate, Fe 2 Al 2 O 7 (SiO 4) 4 (OH), occurring in brown to black prismatic crystals, which are often twinned in the form of a cross.
- stelliform — star-shaped.
- stichology — metrical theory or the science of poetic metres
- stilettoed — wearing stiletto heels
- still room — (in a large house) a room for distilling or for the preparation of special foods and drinks.
- stillatory — a still or distillery where liquid is distilled
- stillhouse — a distillery or place where the distilling process takes place
- stilliform — drop-shaped; globular.
- stilt root — a large prop root
- stimulator — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- stock list — a list or inventory of the goods or raw materials kept on the premises of a shop or business
- stolenwise — in a stealthy or secretive manner
- stolidness — not easily stirred or moved mentally; unemotional; impassive.
- stone lily — a fossil crinoid.