10-letter words containing t, e, r, s, n
- sternboard — a backward motion of a boat
- sterno can — a small can of Sterno
- sternsheet — the part of an open boat near the stern
- sternwards — towards the stern; astern
- sternwheel — a paddle wheel at the stern of a vessel.
- sternworks — the rear of a vessel
- stewarding — a person who manages another's property or financial affairs; one who administers anything as the agent of another or others.
- stickering — a person or thing that sticks.
- stockinger — a person who knits on a stocking frame
- stockowner — stockholder (def 1).
- stone crab — an edible crab, Menippe mercenaria, of rocky shores from the southern U.S. to Mexico and certain areas of the Caribbean, prized for the meat of its claws.
- stoneborer — an animal that can bore through rocks, esp certain types of bivalve molluscs that bore into limestone
- stonebrash — a type of subsoil consisting of small or broken stones or rock
- stonebreak — any of a variety of plants in the genus Saxifraga
- stonehorse — a stallion or uncastrated male horse
- storefront — the side of a store facing a street, usually containing display windows.
- storm cone — a canvas cone hoisted as a warning of high winds
- story line — plot (def 2).
- straighten — make straight
- strainedly — in a strained manner
- strainless — to draw tight or taut, especially to the utmost tension; stretch to the full: to strain a rope.
- straitened — to put into difficulties, especially financial ones: His obligations had straitened him.
- strandline — a mark left by the high tide or a line of seaweed and other debris washed onto the beach by the tide
- stranglers — to kill by squeezing the throat in order to compress the windpipe and prevent the intake of air, as with the hands or a tightly drawn cord.
- straw wine — a usually rich or sweet wine produced from grapes partially dried on the vine or picked and dried in the sun on a bed of straw or reeds.
- streamline — a teardrop line of contour offering the least possible resistance to a current of air, water, etc.
- streamling — a small stream
- strengthen — to make stronger; give strength to.
- stresemann — Gustav [goo s-tahf] /ˈgʊs tɑf/ (Show IPA), 1878–1929, German statesman: Nobel Peace Prize 1926.
- stretching — the activity of straightening the arms and legs and tightening the muscles
- strictness — characterized by or acting in close conformity to requirements or principles: a strict observance of rituals.
- strindberg — Johan August [yoo-hahn ou-goo st] /ˈyu hɑn ˈaʊ gʊst/ (Show IPA), 1849–1912, Swedish novelist, dramatist, and essayist.
- string tie — a short, very narrow, and unflared necktie, usually tied in a bow.
- stringbean — any of various kinds of bean, as the green bean, the unripe pods of which are used as food, usually after stripping off the fibrous thread along the side.
- stringency — stringent character or condition: the stringency of poverty.
- stringendo — to be performed with increasing speed
- stringless — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- strip mine — A strip mine is a mine in which the coal, metal, or mineral is near the surface, and so underground passages are not needed.
- stripiness — the state or quality of being stripy
- strobiline — of or relating to a strobilus
- stroessner — Alfredo [al-frey-doh;; Spanish ahl-fre-th aw] /ælˈfreɪ doʊ;; Spanish ɑlˈfrɛ ðɔ/ (Show IPA), 1912–2006, Paraguayan general and statesman: president 1954–89.
- strongness — having, showing, or able to exert great bodily or muscular power; physically vigorous or robust: a strong boy.
- strychnine — Pharmacology. a colorless, crystalline poison, C 2 1 H 2 2 N 2 O 2 , obtained chiefly by extraction from the seeds of nux vomica, formerly used as a central nervous system stimulant.
- sturdiness — strongly built; stalwart; robust: sturdy young athletes.
- subcentral — near or almost to the center.
- subcurrent — a not clearly revealed or formulated direction of thought, intention, action, etc., underlying what is manifested: His words, though ostensibly friendly, betrayed a subcurrent of hostility.
- subnitrate — a basic salt of nitric acid.
- subreption — Canon Law. a concealment of the pertinent facts in a petition, as for dispensation or favor, that in certain cases nullifies the grant. Compare obreption (def 1).
- subroutine — an instruction sequence in a machine or assembly language program that can be prewritten and referred to as often as needed. Compare procedure (def 4a).
- substernal — of or relating to the sternum.