10-letter words containing s, t, e, r, i, l
- short-life — not designed to last
- shrievalty — the office, term, or jurisdiction of a sheriff.
- siderolite — stony-iron meteorite.
- silentiary — someone who keeps silence in court
- silvertail — a person of affluence or influence.
- silvertone — made to resemble silver in color, sheen, etc.
- singletree — whiffletree.
- sinisterly — threatening or portending evil, harm, or trouble; ominous: a sinister remark.
- sisterless — without a sister
- sisterlike — like a sister
- sitosterol — any of five steroid alcohols having the formula C 2 2 H 5 0 O, especially the beta form, obtained from various plant sources: used in organic synthesis.
- slathering — to spread or apply thickly: to slather butter on toast.
- sleepshirt — a shirtlike garment, usually knee-length or shorter, worn for sleeping.
- slide rest — a stack of platforms that sits on a lathe saddle and carries a tool post, and is adjustable in rotation and at right angles by a lathe operator
- slipstream — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
- slithering — to slide down or along a surface, especially unsteadily, from side to side, or with some friction or noise: The box slithered down the chute.
- sortileger — a diviner
- sparkliest — tending to sparkle; animated; lively: a row of sparkly cheerleaders.
- spermatial — relating to the male reproductive cells of certain red algae and fungi
- sperrylite — a mineral, platinum arsenide, PtAs 2 , occurring in minute tin-white crystals, usually cubes: a minor ore of platinum.
- sphalerite — a very common mineral, zinc sulfide, ZnS, usually containing some iron and a little cadmium, occurring in yellow, brown, or black crystals or cleavable masses with resinous luster: the principal ore of zinc and cadmium; blackjack.
- spherulite — a rounded aggregate of radiating crystals found in obsidian and other glassy igneous rocks.
- spinsterly — relating to or resembling a spinster
- spiritless — without spirit.
- spitballer — a pitcher who is known or believed to throw spitballs.
- splintered — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
- spritelike — an elf, fairy, or goblin.
- squaretail — any of several fishes of the genus Tetragonurus, inhabiting deep waters of tropical and temperate seas, having a squarish tail and an armor of tough, bony scales.
- st. helier — a British island in the English Channel: the largest of the Channel Islands. 44 sq. mi. (116 sq. km). Capital: St. Helier.
- stabilizer — a person or thing that stabilizes.
- starkville — a town in E Mississippi.
- start life — If something starts life or begins life as a particular thing, it is that thing when it first starts to exist.
- starveling — a person, animal, or plant that is starving.
- 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.
- stealthier — done, characterized, or acting by stealth; furtive: stealthy footsteps.
- stelliform — star-shaped.
- sterically — of or relating to the spatial relationships of atoms in a molecule.
- sterilized — Something that is sterilized has been made free from bacteria or other microorganisms.
- sterilizer — to destroy microorganisms in or on, usually by bringing to a high temperature with steam, dry heat, or boiling liquid.
- sterlingly — in a sterling way or manner
- sternalgia — pain occurring in or around the sternum
- sternalgic — relating to or having sternalgia
- stillwater — a city in N Oklahoma.
- story line — plot (def 2).
- storyville — a red-light district of New Orleans known as a wellspring of jazz before World War I.
- strainedly — in a strained manner
- 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
- streamline — a teardrop line of contour offering the least possible resistance to a current of air, water, etc.
- streamling — a small stream