10-letter words containing t, e, n, o, i, s
- sextillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 21 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 36 zeros.
- sextonship — the office of a sexton
- shoestring — a shoelace.
- short line — a bus or rail route covering only a limited distance.
- shortening — butter, lard, or other fat, used to make pastry, bread, etc., short.
- shot noise — random fluctuations in the emission of electrons from a hot cathode, causing a hissing or sputtering sound (shot noise) in an audio amplifier and causing snow on a television screen.
- sideration — sudden paralysis of a part of the body
- signposted — A place or route that is signposted has signposts beside the road to show the way.
- silent cop — a small hemispherical traffic marker at an intersection
- silvertone — made to resemble silver in color, sheen, etc.
- single out — only one in number; one only; unique; sole: a single example.
- skeletonic — resembling a skeleton
- skimmerton — shivaree (def 1).
- 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
- smothering — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
- snootiness — snobbish.
- snottiness — Vulgar. of or relating to snot.
- snow-white — white as snow.
- soda niter — a white or transparent mineral, sodium nitrate, NaNO 3 , used chiefly as a fertilizer and in the manufacture of sulfuric and nitric acids and potassium nitrate.
- solonetzic — characteristic of solonetz
- somethings — Informal. a person or thing of some value or consequence: He is really something! This writer has something to say and she says it well.
- songwriter — a person who writes the words or music, or both, for popular songs.
- soricident — having shrewlike teeth
- sorrentino — Gilbert, 1929–2006, U.S. poet and novelist.
- sound bite — a brief, striking remark or statement excerpted from an audiotape or videotape for insertion in a broadcast news story.
- souterrain — a subterranean passage or structure; grotto.
- spearpoint — the point at the end of a spearhead.
- speciation — the formation of new species as a result of geographic, physiological, anatomical, or behavioral factors that prevent previously interbreeding populations from breeding with each other.
- sportiness — flashy; showy.
- stationery — writing paper.
- steam iron — an electric iron with a water chamber, which emits steam onto the fabric or garment being ironed.
- stenopaeic — pertaining to or containing a narrow slit or minute opening: a stenopeic device to aid vision after eye surgery.
- stenotopic — (of an animal or plant) able to tolerate only small environmental changes.
- stentorian — very loud or powerful in sound: a stentorian voice.
- step on it — a movement made by lifting the foot and setting it down again in a new position, accompanied by a shifting of the weight of the body in the direction of the new position, as in walking, running, or dancing.
- stinkstone — any of various limestones that emit an unpleasant odor when scratched or struck.
- stockiness — the quality of being stocky
- stockinged — a close-fitting covering for the foot and part of the leg, usually knitted, of wool, cotton, nylon, silk, or similar material.
- stockinger — a person who knits on a stocking frame
- stodginess — heavy, dull, or uninteresting; tediously commonplace; boring: a stodgy Victorian novel.
- stolenwise — in a stealthy or secretive manner
- stolidness — not easily stirred or moved mentally; unemotional; impassive.
- stone lily — a fossil crinoid.
- stone mint — dittany (def 2).
- stone pine — Also called umbrella pine, parasol pine. a tree, Pinus pinea, native to southern Europe, having branches forming an umbrellalike crown and bearing edible, nutlike seeds.
- stone-lily — a fossil crinoid.
- story line — plot (def 2).
- stringendo — to be performed with increasing speed
- strobiline — of or relating to a strobilus