10-letter words containing t, e, s, l, a
- 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 band — a band, native to Trinidad and common in the West Indies, using steel drums cut to various heights and tuned to specific pitches.
- steel gray — dark metallic gray with a bluish tinge.
- steel tape — a metal tape measure
- steel trap — a trap for catching animals, consisting of spring-operated steel jaws with sharp projections that clamp shut.
- steel-clad — covered with steel; steel-panelled
- steelmaker — a manufacturer of steel.
- stellulate — minutely star-shaped
- stepfamily — a family composed of a parent, a stepparent, and a child or children by a previous marriage.
- stepladder — a ladder having flat steps or treads in place of rungs.
- sterically — of or relating to the spatial relationships of atoms in a molecule.
- sternalgia — pain occurring in or around the sternum
- sternalgic — relating to or having sternalgia
- stillwater — a city in N Oklahoma.
- stimulable — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- stimulated — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- stipulated — to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of agreement (often followed by for).
- 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.
- straddlers — to walk, stand, or sit with the legs wide apart; stand or sit astride.
- stragglers — to stray from the road, course, or line of march.
- strainedly — in a strained manner
- strainless — to draw tight or taut, especially to the utmost tension; stretch to the full: to strain a rope.
- 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.
- streamflow — the water that flows in a specific stream site, especially its volume and rate of flow.
- streamless — a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- streamline — a teardrop line of contour offering the least possible resistance to a current of air, water, etc.
- streamling — a small stream
- streetlamp — light mounted on a post in street
- strelitzia — any southern African perennial herbaceous plant of the genus Strelitzia, cultivated for its showy flowers: includes the bird-of-paradise flower: family Strelitziaceae
- stridulate — to produce a shrill, grating sound, as a cricket does, by rubbing together certain parts of the body; shrill.
- strigilate — an instrument with a curved blade, used especially by the ancient Greeks and Romans for scraping the skin at the bath and in the gymnasium.
- strippable — Mining. of or relating to ore or coal that can be produced by strip mining.
- strobilate — to undergo strobilation
- suaveolent — fragrant or sweet-smelling
- subacutely — in a subacute manner
- subarticle — an article that forms part of a larger or main article
- subcentral — near or almost to the center.
- subchelate — having a claw with one pincer longer than the other
- subclavate — somewhat club-shaped.
- subdialect — a division of a larger dialect
- sublattice — a set of elements of a lattice, in which each subset of two elements has a least upper bound and a greatest lower bound contained in the given set.
- substellar — having a mass smaller than the mass needed by stars for nuclear fusion
- substernal — of or relating to the sternum.
- subsulfate — a basic salt of sulfuric acid.
- subtextual — the underlying or implicit meaning, as of a literary work.
- sucralfate — a sugar-aluminum complex, C 1 2 H 5 4 Al 1 6 O 7 5 S 8 , used for the treatment of duodenal ulcer.
- sulphatase — an enzyme of the esterase group that catalyses the hydrolysis of sulphate esters
- sulphatise — to convert into a sulfate, as by the roasting of ores.