10-letter words containing t, e, s, l, a
- sulphonate — a salt or ester of any sulphonic acid containing the ion RSO2O– or the group RSO2O–, R being an organic group
- sulphurate — to combine or treat with sulphur or a sulphur compound
- sunset law — a statute that includes provision for automatic termination of a government program, agency, etc., at the end of a specified time period unless it is reauthorized by the legislature.
- superaltar — a consecrated portable stone slab for use on an unconsecrated altar
- superexalt — to exalt further; to exalt or raise above others or above a previous position
- supplanted — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
- supplanter — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
- supplicate — to pray humbly; make humble and earnest entreaty or petition.
- surrealist — a style of art and literature developed principally in the 20th century, stressing the subconscious or nonrational significance of imagery arrived at by automatism or the exploitation of chance effects, unexpected juxtapositions, etc.
- surreality — of, relating to, or characteristic of surrealism, an artistic and literary style; surrealistic.
- sutherland — Earl Wilbur, Jr. 1915–74, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1971.
- sweet flag — an aroid marsh plant, Acorus calamus, having swordlike leaves, small greenish flowers, and aromatic roots
- sweet gale — a shrub, Myrica gale, of northern swamp regions, having yellow catkin-like flowers and aromatic leaves: family Myricaceae
- sweet talk — cajolery, persuasion by flattery
- sweet-talk — to use cajoling words.
- switchable — a slender, flexible shoot, rod, etc., used especially in whipping or disciplining.
- sylvestral — growing, living, or occurring in a wood or beneath a tree
- table salt — salt1 (def 1).
- table-side — the area around or beside a table.
- tablespoon — a spoon larger than a teaspoon or a dessert spoon, used in serving food at the table and as a standard measuring unit in recipes.
- tactlessly — lacking tact; showing no tact; undiplomatic; offendingly blunt: a tactless remark.
- talentless — not having any talent or special gift or ability
- talk sense — If you say that someone talks sense, you mean that what they say is sensible.
- tanglesome — tangled
- tantalised — to torment with, or as if with, the sight of something desired but out of reach; tease by arousing expectations that are repeatedly disappointed.
- targetless — an object, usually marked with concentric circles, to be aimed at in shooting practice or contests.
- tattersall — a pattern of squares formed by colored crossbars on a solid-color, usually light background.
- tear shell — tear bomb.
- tearlessly — without shedding tears
- telecasted — a television broadcast.
- telemachus — the son of Odysseus and Penelope who helped Odysseus to kill the suitors of Penelope.
- telematics — the branch of science concerned with the use of technological devices to transmit information over long distances
- teleostean — a fish of the order Teleostei
- telesmatic — relating to a telesm
- televisual — Televisual means broadcast on or related to television.
- telferages — telpher.
- tell tales — a person who heedlessly or maliciously reveals private or confidential matters; tattler; talebearer.
- telomerase — an enzyme, active chiefly in tumors and reproductive cells, that causes telomeres to lengthen: facilitates cell division and may account for the immortality of cancer cells.
- telsontail — any of several minute, wingless, primitive insects of the order Protura, having a cone-shaped head with sucking and piercing mouthparts and no eyes or antennae, inhabiting damp soil or decaying organic matter.
- tenantless — a person or group that rents and occupies land, a house, an office, or the like, from another for a period of time; lessee.
- tesla coil — an air-core transformer used to produce high voltages of high-frequency alternating currents.
- tesselated — of, relating to, or like a mosaic.
- tessellate — to form of small squares or blocks, as floors or pavements; form or arrange in a checkered or mosaic pattern.
- test blank — a typed or printed test form containing questions or tasks to be responded to.
- testicular — of or relating to the testes.
- testudinal — pertaining to or resembling a tortoise or tortoise shell.
- tetrapolis — a conglomeration of four cities
- tetrastyle — having four columns.
- textualism — strict adherence to a text, especially of the Scriptures.
- textualist — a person who adheres closely to a text, especially of the Scriptures.