10-letter words containing s, y, r, o
- spun rayon — yarn produced by spinning short, uniform lengths of rayon filaments into a continuous strand.
- spuriosity — something spurious
- spuriously — not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit.
- stationary — standing still; not moving.
- stationery — writing paper.
- statolatry — the act or practice of idolizing the state
- stenotyper — a machine with a keyboard for recording speeches or dictation in phonetic shorthand
- stercorary — a weatherproof place where dung is stored
- stereology — a branch of science dealing with the determination of the three-dimensional structure of objects based on two-dimensional views of them.
- stereotaxy — brain surgery that makes use of measurement in three dimensions for positioning an electrode, needle, etc. precisely
- stereotomy — the technique of cutting solids, as stones, to specified forms and dimensions.
- stereotype — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
- stereotypy — the stereotype process.
- stillatory — a still or distillery where liquid is distilled
- store away — keep
- storiology — the study of the origins and development of folk narratives and legends
- stormfully — in a stormful manner
- story line — plot (def 2).
- storyboard — a panel or panels on which a sequence of sketches depict the significant changes of action and scene in a planned film, as for a movie, television show, or advertisement.
- storyville — a red-light district of New Orleans known as a wellspring of jazz before World War I.
- strabotomy — the operation of cutting one or more of the muscles of the eye to correct strabismus.
- stubbornly — unreasonably obstinate; obstinately unmoving: a stubborn child.
- study room — a room, esp in a boarding school, used for studying
- study tour — a trip or tour taken by a group of people in order to study something, such as a language
- stylograph — a fountain pen in which the writing point is a fine, hollow tube instead of a nib.
- stylometry — the study of the style of something such as a written text so as to determine the author
- subsultory — moving in starts or twitches; relating to subsultus
- sumerology — the study of the history, language, and culture of the Sumerians.
- superalloy — an alloy, often with a nickel, nickel-iron, or cobalt base, capable of withstanding very high temperatures, used in jet engines, rockets, etc.
- superiorly — higher in station, rank, degree, importance, etc.: a superior officer.
- suppletory — supplying a deficiency.
- suspensory — a supporting bandage, muscle, ligament, etc.
- sword lily — a gladiolus.
- symbolizer — a person or thing that symbolizes something else
- synandrous — with united stamens
- synaxarion — a summary of the life of a saint or of the particulars of a feast, read at the orthros.
- syncarpous — of the nature of or pertaining to a syncarp.
- synchronal — synchronous.
- synchronic — having reference to the facts of a linguistic system as it exists at one point in time without reference to its history: synchronic analysis; synchronic dialectology.
- syndicator — a person who establishes a syndicate
- synthronus — a combined throne for a bishop and his presbyters
- szymborska — Wislawa [vis-lah-vah] /vɪsˈlɑ vɑ/ (Show IPA), 1923–2012, Polish poet: Nobel prize 1996.
- tall story — far-fetched account
- temerously — in a temerous manner
- tom sawyer — (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)a novel (1876) by Mark Twain.
- tortuosity — the state of being tortuous; twisted form or course; crookedness.
- tortuously — full of twists, turns, or bends; twisting, winding, or crooked: a tortuous path.
- transitory — not lasting, enduring, permanent, or eternal.
- trichocyst — an organ of offense and defense embedded in the outer cytoplasm of certain protozoans, consisting of a small elongated sac containing a fine, hairlike filament capable of being ejected.
- trisomy 13 — a syndrome associated with the presence of an extra chromosome 13, characterized by mental retardation, cardiac problems, and multiple deformities.