10-letter words containing t, e, l, o, a
- sevastopol — a fortified seaport in the S Crimea, in S Ukraine: famous for its heroic resistance during sieges of 349 days in 1854–55, and 245 days in 1941–42.
- shackleton — Sir Ernest Henry, 1874–1922, English explorer of the Antarctic.
- shallowest — of little depth; not deep: shallow water.
- shapetools — (tool, programming) A code management system for Unix from The Technical University of Berlin.
- shellycoat — a mythical creature dressed in shells who haunts rivers and streams
- short sale — an act or instance of selling short.
- shot angle — the angle from which a shot is taken
- shot metal — lead hardened with antimony and arsenic, used to manufacture shot for cartridges.
- shovel hat — a hat with a broad brim turned up at the sides and projecting with a shovellike curve in front and behind; worn by some ecclesiastics, chiefly in England.
- slot racer — slot car.
- sloth bear — a coarse-haired, long-snouted bear, Ursus ursinus, of India and Indochina: now rare.
- societally — noting or pertaining to large social groups, or to their activities, customs, etc.
- sodertalje — a city in SE Sweden: suburb of Stockholm.
- soft scale — any of numerous homopterous insect pests of the family Coccidae, as leafhoppers, aphids, and whiteflies, that are destructive to crops, shade and fruit trees, and various houseplants.
- soft-pedal — to use the soft pedal.
- softballer — a person who plays or is an enthusiast of softball.
- solacement — a comfort or consolation
- solar-heat — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
- sole agent — the only appointed agent or representative
- somersault — an acrobatic movement, either forward or backward, in which the body rolls end over end, making a complete revolution.
- soup plate — a deep, concave plate used especially for serving soup.
- speculator — a person who is engaged in commercial or financial speculation.
- spoliative — blood-diminishing
- spot plate — a flat ceramic or plastic plate containing small wells on which spot tests are made.
- stable boy — A stable boy is a young man who works in a stable looking after the horses.
- stableford — a scoring system in which points are awarded according to the number of strokes taken at each hole, whereby a hole completed in one stroke over par counts as one point, a hole completed in level par counts as two points, etc
- stadholder — the chief magistrate of the former republic of the United Provinces of the Netherlands.
- standalone — self-contained and able to operate without other hardware or software.
- starflower — any of several plants having starlike flowers, as the star-of-Bethlehem or a plant belonging to the genus Trientalis of the primrose family.
- 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.
- stay loose — free or released from fastening or attachment: a loose end.
- steam coal — coal with relatively high sulfur content, suited for generating steam but not for coking.
- steatocele — a fatty tumour located in the scrotum
- stove coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 1 5/8 to 2 7/16 (about 4 to 6 cm), intermediate between egg coal and chestnut coal.
- streamflow — the water that flows in a specific stream site, especially its volume and rate of flow.
- strobilate — to undergo strobilation
- suaveolent — fragrant or sweet-smelling
- sulphonate — a salt or ester of any sulphonic acid containing the ion RSO2O– or the group RSO2O–, R being an organic group
- table corn — Chiefly Eastern U.S. sweet corn.
- tablecloth — a cloth for covering the top of a table, especially during a meal.
- tablemount — guyot
- tablespoon — a spoon larger than a teaspoon or a dessert spoon, used in serving food at the table and as a standard measuring unit in recipes.
- tailcoated — wearing a tailcoat
- tailorable — capable of being made into clothing: tailorable fabrics.
- take-along — intended or suitable for taking along, as on a trip: take-along snacks for long car trips.
- talked out — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- tall order — an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
- tanglefoot — a potent alcoholic drink
- tanglesome — tangled
- tanglewood — a town in W Massachusetts, in the Berkshire Hills: a former estate (Tanglewood) in the area is the site of annual summer music festivals.