10-letter words containing t, e, l, o, s
- silent cop — a small hemispherical traffic marker at an intersection
- silhouette — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
- silvertone — made to resemble silver in color, sheen, etc.
- single out — only one in number; one only; unique; sole: a single example.
- 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.
- skeletonic — resembling a skeleton
- sleekstone — a stone used for polishing
- slide knot — a knot formed by making two half hitches on the standing part of the rope, the second hitch being next to the loop, which can be tightened.
- slingstone — a stone fired from a sling
- slop chest — a supply of clothing, boots, tobacco, and other personal goods for sale to the crew of a ship during a voyage.
- slot meter — a meter into which coins are inserted, in advance, to pay for electricity (as opposed to a meter that records the amount of electricity the customer has used, for which they are later billed, usually each quarter)
- 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 steel — mild steel.
- soft-pedal — to use the soft pedal.
- soft-shell — Also, soft-shelled. having a soft, flexible, or fragile shell, as a crab that has recently molted.
- 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
- solenocyte — a type of long, narrow, flagellated cell that functions in excretion of nitrogenous wastes and occurs in a variety of organisms, including certain annelids and mollusks.
- solicitude — the state of being solicitous; anxiety or concern.
- solonetzic — characteristic of solonetz
- somersault — an acrobatic movement, either forward or backward, in which the body rolls end over end, making a complete revolution.
- sortileger — a diviner
- soup plate — a deep, concave plate used especially for serving soup.
- south pole — the region of a magnet toward which the lines of magnetic induction converge (south pole) or from which the lines of induction diverge (north pole)
- southernly — southerly.
- southfield — a city in SE Michigan, W of Detroit.
- speculator — a person who is engaged in commercial or financial speculation.
- speleothem — a natural structure within a cave
- spellstopt — immobilized by magic
- spleenwort — any of various temperate and tropical ferns of the genera Asplenium and Diplazium, certain species of which are grown as ornamentals.
- 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
- steel wool — a tangled or matted mass of stringlike steel shavings, used for scouring, polishing, smoothing, etc.
- steelworks — an establishment where steel is made and often manufactured into girders, rails, etc.
- stelliform — star-shaped.