10-letter words containing t, e, s, l, a
- side-table — a table intended to be placed against a wall.
- signalment — a detailed description, especially of distinctive features, of a person for identification, usually for police purposes.
- silentiary — someone who keeps silence in court
- silvertail — a person of affluence or influence.
- similative — implying likeness
- simulative — to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like): to simulate crisis conditions.
- single tax — a tax, as on land, that constitutes the sole source of public revenue.
- skaithless — without injury or damage
- sketchable — suitable for being sketched.
- slant-eyed — having eyes with epicanthic folds.
- slate blue — a moderate to dark grayish blue.
- slate-blue — of a dark greyish-blue colour
- slate-grey — of a dark grey colour
- slathering — to spread or apply thickly: to slather butter on toast.
- slatternly — slovenly and untidy.
- slaughtery — a slaughterhouse
- slipstream — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
- slot racer — slot car.
- sloth bear — a coarse-haired, long-snouted bear, Ursus ursinus, of India and Indochina: now rare.
- sluicegate — an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
- small-time — of modest or insignificant size, importance, or influence: a small-time politician.
- smart alec — smart aleck.
- smart well — A smart well is a well which has equipment that can be controlled either automatically or by an operator at a remote location.
- smart-alec — smart aleck.
- snail kite — a bird of prey, Rostrhamus sociabilis, that travels in flocks in the American tropics and feeds on snails.
- 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.
- sparkliest — tending to sparkle; animated; lively: a row of sparkly cheerleaders.
- spathulate — spatulate.
- specialist — a person who devotes himself or herself to one subject or to one particular branch of a subject or pursuit.
- speciality — specialty.
- spectacled — wearing spectacles.
- spectacles — anything presented to the sight or view, especially something of a striking or impressive kind: The stars make a fine spectacle tonight.
- spectrally — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
- speculated — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- speculator — a person who is engaged in commercial or financial speculation.
- spermatial — relating to the male reproductive cells of certain red algae and fungi
- sphacelate — affected with gangrene
- sphalerite — a very common mineral, zinc sulfide, ZnS, usually containing some iron and a little cadmium, occurring in yellow, brown, or black crystals or cleavable masses with resinous luster: the principal ore of zinc and cadmium; blackjack.
- spiculated — covered with spicules or needle-like
- spiflicate — to destroy; annihilate
- spitballer — a pitcher who is known or believed to throw spitballs.