10-letter words containing s, t, a, r, l, e
- strainless — to draw tight or taut, especially to the utmost tension; stretch to the full: to strain a rope.
- 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.
- streamflow — the water that flows in a specific stream site, especially its volume and rate of flow.
- streamless — a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- streamline — a teardrop line of contour offering the least possible resistance to a current of air, water, etc.
- streamling — a small stream
- streetlamp — light mounted on a post in street
- strelitzia — any southern African perennial herbaceous plant of the genus Strelitzia, cultivated for its showy flowers: includes the bird-of-paradise flower: family Strelitziaceae
- stridulate — to produce a shrill, grating sound, as a cricket does, by rubbing together certain parts of the body; shrill.
- strigilate — an instrument with a curved blade, used especially by the ancient Greeks and Romans for scraping the skin at the bath and in the gymnasium.
- strippable — Mining. of or relating to ore or coal that can be produced by strip mining.
- strobilate — to undergo strobilation
- subarticle — an article that forms part of a larger or main article
- subcentral — near or almost to the center.
- substellar — having a mass smaller than the mass needed by stars for nuclear fusion
- substernal — of or relating to the sternum.
- 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.
- sulphurate — to combine or treat with sulphur or a sulphur compound
- superaltar — a consecrated portable stone slab for use on an unconsecrated altar
- superexalt — to exalt further; to exalt or raise above others or above a previous position
- supplanter — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
- surrealist — a style of art and literature developed principally in the 20th century, stressing the subconscious or nonrational significance of imagery arrived at by automatism or the exploitation of chance effects, unexpected juxtapositions, etc.
- surreality — of, relating to, or characteristic of surrealism, an artistic and literary style; surrealistic.
- sutherland — Earl Wilbur, Jr. 1915–74, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1971.
- sylvestral — growing, living, or occurring in a wood or beneath a tree
- targetless — an object, usually marked with concentric circles, to be aimed at in shooting practice or contests.
- tattersall — a pattern of squares formed by colored crossbars on a solid-color, usually light background.
- tear shell — tear bomb.
- tearlessly — without shedding tears
- telferages — telpher.
- telomerase — an enzyme, active chiefly in tumors and reproductive cells, that causes telomeres to lengthen: facilitates cell division and may account for the immortality of cancer cells.
- testicular — of or relating to the testes.
- tetrapolis — a conglomeration of four cities
- tetrastyle — having four columns.
- the-rivals — a comedy of manners (1775) by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
- thimerosal — a cream-colored, crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 9 H 9 HgNaO 2 S, used chiefly as an antiseptic.
- threadless — a fine cord of flax, cotton, or other fibrous material spun out to considerable length, especially when composed of two or more filaments twisted together.
- trade-last — Informal Older Use. a compliment that one has heard and that one offers to tell the person so complimented under the condition that that person will first report a compliment made about oneself. Abbreviation: T.L.
- trailerist — a person who travels in a trailer
- trans male — a person who was born female and whose gender identity is male.
- trans-late — to turn from one language into another or from a foreign language into one's own: to translate Spanish.
- transferal — transference; transfer.
- translater — translator (def 1).
- transvalue — to reestimate the value of, especially on a basis differing from accepted standards; reappraise; reevaluate.
- tree snail — any tree- or bush-living gastropod of the family Bulimulidae, inhabiting tropical and temperate regions and characterized by brightly colored shells with distinct central whorls.
- trisulcate — having three grooves or furrows
- trivialise — to make trivial; cause to appear unimportant, trifling, etc.
- trophesial — involving or relating to trophesy
- ultradense — having the component parts closely compacted together; crowded or compact: a dense forest; dense population.