10-letter words containing sa
- sandbender — [IBM] A person involved with silicon lithography and the physical design of integrated circuits. Compare ironmonger, polygon pusher.
- sandcastle — a small castlelike structure made of wet sand, as by children at a beach.
- sanderling — a common, small sandpiper, Calidris alba, inhabiting sandy beaches.
- sandgroper — a nickname for a Western Australian
- sandgrouse — any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young.
- sandinista — a member of the Nicaraguan revolutionary movement that took control of Nicaragua in 1979.
- sandlotter — a youngster who plays baseball in a sandlot.
- sandpapery — of or suggesting the grating sound of sandpaper rubbing against wood or the rough texture of sandpaper.
- sandroller — a North American fresh-water fish, Percopsis transmontana, related to the troutperch but having a deeper, more compressed body.
- sandsucker — the flatfish Platessa limandoides
- sandwiched — two or more slices of bread or the like with a layer of meat, fish, cheese, etc., between each pair.
- sandy city — a town in central Utah.
- sandy hook — a peninsula in E New Jersey, at the entrance to lower New York Bay. 6 miles (10 km) long.
- sanforized — (of a fabric) preshrunk using a patented process
- sang-froid — coolness of mind; calmness; composure: They committed the robbery with complete sang-froid.
- sangiovese — a black grape grown in the Tuscany region of Italy, used for making Chianti and other wines
- sanguinary — full of or characterized by bloodshed; bloody: a sanguinary struggle.
- sanguinely — cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident: a sanguine disposition; sanguine expectations.
- sanguinity — cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident: a sanguine disposition; sanguine expectations.
- sanitarian — sanitary; clean and wholesome.
- sanitarily — of or relating to health or the conditions affecting health, especially with reference to cleanliness, precautions against disease, etc.
- sanitarist — a sanitarian
- sanitarium — an institution for the preservation or recovery of health, especially for convalescence; health resort.
- sanitation — the development and application of sanitary measures for the sake of cleanliness, protecting health, etc.
- sanitizing — to free from dirt, germs, etc., as by cleaning or sterilizing.
- sanitorium — a facility for housing patients with long-term illnesses
- sanmicheli — Michele [mee-ke-le] /miˈkɛ lɛ/ (Show IPA), 1484–1559, Italian architect and military engineer.
- sans doute — without doubt; certainly.
- sans serif — a style of monotonal type without serifs.
- sans souci — without worry; carefree.
- sans-serif — a style of monotonal type without serifs.
- sanskritic — an Indo-European, Indic language, in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India. Abbreviation: Skt.
- santa anna — Antonio López de [ahn-taw-nyaw law-pes th e] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ ˈlɔ pɛs ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1795?–1876, Mexican general and revolutionist: dictator 1844–45; president 1833–35, 1853–55.
- santa cruz — a city on the coast of California.
- santa fean — a city in and the capital of New Mexico, in the N part: founded c1605.
- santa rosa — a city in W California, N of San Francisco.
- sao carlos — a city in São Paulo state, SE Brazil.
- sao miguel — the largest island of the Azores. 150,000. 288 sq. mi. (746 sq. km).
- sapiential — containing, exhibiting, or affording wisdom; characterized by wisdom.
- saponifier — to convert (a fat) into soap by treating with an alkali.
- sappanwood — a dyewood yielding a red color, produced by a small, East Indian tree, Caesalpinia sappan, of the legume family.
- sapperment — a German oath
- sapphirine — consisting of sapphire; like sapphire, especially in color.
- saprogenic — producing putrefaction or decay, as certain bacteria.
- saprophyte — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- saprotroph — any organism, esp a fungus or bacterium, that lives and feeds on dead organic matter
- saramaccan — an English-based creole spoken in the interior of Suriname.
- saran wrap — Saran wrap is a thin, clear, stretchy plastic which you use to cover food to keep it fresh.
- sarcocolla — a Persian medicinal gum
- sarcodines — belonging or pertaining to the protist phylum Sarcodina, comprising protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopodia.