10-letter words containing s, y, r, o
- roma gypsy — a member of a people scattered throughout Europe and North America, who maintain a nomadic way of life in industrialized societies
- rosary pea — a woody tropical vine, Abrus precatorius , of the legume family, having extremely poisonous scarlet and black seeds that are used for beads and a root used as a substitute for licorice.
- rosy finch — any of several finches of the genus Leucosticte, of Asia and western North America, having dark brown plumage with a pinkish wash on the wings and rump.
- roy rogers — a nonalcoholic cocktail of ginger ale and grenadine, garnished with a maraschino cherry: a child's drink, served especially to a boy.
- royal mast — a mast situated immediately above, and generally formed as a single spar with, a topgallant mast.
- royalistic — relating to a royalist
- roystering — roister.
- roysterous — boisterous
- rusty iron — (jargon, hardware) Synonym tired iron. It has been claimed that this is the inevitable fate of water MIPS.
- sally port — a gateway permitting the passage of a large number of troops at a time.
- salutatory — pertaining to or of the nature of a salutation.
- saprophyte — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- schoolyard — a playground or sports field near a school.
- sclerotomy — incision into the sclera, as to extract foreign bodies.
- scornfully — full of scorn; derisive; contemptuous: He smiled in a scornful way.
- scyphiform — shaped like a cup or goblet.
- sentry box — a small structure for sheltering a sentry from bad weather.
- separatory — serving to separate.
- set theory — the branch of mathematics that deals with relations between sets.
- short-stay — available or valid for a limited time
- sibilatory — characterized by hissing or whistling
- siderocyte — an erythrocyte that contains iron in forms other than hematin.
- simulatory — to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like): to simulate crisis conditions.
- six-storey — having six floors or storeys
- sixty-four — a cardinal number, 60 plus 4.
- skytrooper — a paratrooper.
- slavocracy — the rule or domination of slaveholders: the slavocracy of the old plantations.
- snobocracy — a social class of snobs
- sociocracy — a theoretical system of government in which the interests of all members of society are served equally.
- sociometry — the measurement of attitudes of social acceptance or rejection through expressed preferences among members of a social grouping.
- solar myth — a myth explaining or allegorizing the origin or movement of the sun
- solar year — year (def 4b).
- solar-year — a period of 365 or 366 days, in the Gregorian calendar, divided into 12 calendar months, now reckoned as beginning Jan. 1 and ending Dec. 31 (calendar year or civil year) Compare common year, leap year.
- solidarily — characterized by or involving community of responsibilities and interests.
- solidarity — union or fellowship arising from common responsibilities and interests, as between members of a group or between classes, peoples, etc.: to promote solidarity among union members.
- solitarily — alone; without companions; unattended: a solitary passer-by.
- sonography — the medical diagnostic imaging technique used to see internal organs, muscles, etc
- sonorously — giving out or capable of giving out a sound, especially a deep, resonant sound, as a thing or place: a sonorous cavern.
- soothsayer — a person who professes to foretell events.
- sooty tern — a black and white tern, Sterna fuscata, of small tropical islands.
- sophrosyne — moderation; discretion; prudence.
- southernly — southerly.
- soya flour — flour made from soya beans
- spherocyte — an abnormal blood cell
- spirometry — an instrument for determining the capacity of the lungs.
- sporocytes — a diploid cell in certain spore-bearing plants, as liverworts, that produces four haploid spores through meiosis; a spore mother cell.
- sporophyll — a modified leaf that bears sporangia.
- sporophyte — the form of a plant in the alternation of generations that produces asexual spores.
- sportingly — engaging in, disposed to, or interested in open-air or athletic sports: a rugged, sporting man.
- sports day — In British schools, sports day is a day or an afternoon when pupils compete in athletics contests such as races and the high jump. Parents are often invited to come and watch the events.