10-letter words containing s, t, e, r, i, l
- 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.
- strifeless — without strife
- 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.
- strike oil — any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
- stringless — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- stripeless — without stripes
- strippable — Mining. of or relating to ore or coal that can be produced by strip mining.
- strobilate — to undergo strobilation
- strobiline — of or relating to a strobilus
- strophiole — a small growth on some plants' seeds
- subarticle — an article that forms part of a larger or main article
- subfertile — less than normally fertile
- sultriness — oppressively hot and close or moist; sweltering: a sultry day.
- superelite — (often used with a plural verb) the choice or best of anything considered collectively, as of a group or class of persons.
- superlight — extremely light
- supertitle — (especially in opera production) a translation of a segment of the libretto or other text or sometimes a brief summary of the plot projected onto a screen above the stage during a performance.
- 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.
- sweltering — suffering oppressive heat.
- swiveltree — swingletree.
- telescript — A communications-oriented programming language using "active software agents", released by General Magic in 1994. What PostScript did for cross-platform, device-independent documents, Telescript aims to do for cross-platform, network-independent messaging. Telescript protects programmers from many of the complexities of network protocols.
- teliospore — a spore of certain rust fungi, which carries the fungus through the winter and which, on germination, produces the promycelium.
- tendrilous — a threadlike, leafless organ of climbing plants, often growing in spiral form, which attaches itself to or twines round some other body, so as to support the plant.
- test-drill — to drill a test hole (in)
- testicular — of or relating to the testes.
- tetrapolis — a conglomeration of four cities
- 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.
- thirstless — lacking thirst; not driven by thirst
- thriftless — without thrift; improvident; wasteful.
- thriveless — not thriving, flourishing or prospering
- tirelessly — untiring; indefatigable: a tireless worker.
- toiletries — any article or preparation used in cleaning or grooming oneself, as soap or deodorant.
- tolu resin — tolu.
- toric lens — a lens used to correct astigmatism, having one of its surfaces shaped like part of a torus so that its focal lengths are different in different meridians
- trailerist — a person who travels in a trailer
- 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.
- triple sec — a type of curaçao liqueur.
- triskelion — a symbolic figure consisting of three legs, arms, or branches radiating from a common center, as the device of Sicily and the Isle of Man.
- trisulcate — having three grooves or furrows
- trisulfide — a sulfide containing three sulfur atoms.
- trivialise — to make trivial; cause to appear unimportant, trifling, etc.
- trophesial — involving or relating to trophesy
- uncloister — to free from confinement of any kind
- unpriestly — not befitting a priest
- unsisterly — not sisterly
- ureotelism — the state or quality of being ureotelic
- ventricles — Zoology. any of various hollow organs or parts in an animal body.
- vestibular — of, relating to, or resembling a vestibule.