10-letter words containing sa
- costa mesa — city in SW Calif., near Long Beach: pop. 109,000
- cotylosaur — any of various members of the extinct order of primitive and massive reptiles known as Cotylosauria, which lived between the Carboniferous and Triassic ages
- courtesans — Plural form of courtesan.
- croissants — Plural form of croissant.
- crossandra — any shrub of the free-flowering mostly African genus Crossandra, grown in greenhouses for their large yellow, lilac, or orange flowers: family Acanthaceae
- cul-de-sac — A cul-de-sac is a short road which is closed off at one end.
- cutty sark — a three-masted merchant clipper built in Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869, now kept as a museum ship at Greenwich, London; badly damaged by a fire in 2007; restored then reopened in 2012
- cyclosarin — Cyclohexyl methylphosphonofluoridate, an extremely toxic substance used as a chemical weapon.
- day sailer — a small sailboat without sleeping accommodations, suitable for short trips.
- decussated — Simple past tense and past participle of decussate.
- defeasance — the act or process of rendering null and void; annulment
- delsartian — of, relating to, or characteristic of François Delsarte or the Delsarte method.
- denasality — The quality of being denasal.
- denasalize — to diminish the nasal resonance of (speech or a speech sound).
- depressant — able to diminish or reduce nervous or functional activity
- desalinate — to remove the salt from (esp from sea water)
- desalinize — desalt.
- desalivate — to arrest the flow of saliva in (a human or other animal).
- desaturase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of single to double bonds, especially in the production of essential fatty acids.
- desaturate — to cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance, through solution, chemical combination, or the like.
- despisable — deserving of being despised; despicable
- dessalines — Jean-Jacques (ʒɑ̃ ʒɑk). ?1758–1806, emperor of Haiti (1804–06) after driving out the French; assassinated
- diflunisal — a substance, C 13 H 8 F 2 O 3 , used as an analgesic, antipyretic, and anti-inflammatory drug in the treatment of rheumatoid diseases and other musculoskeletal disorders.
- dinosauric — Of or pertaining to dinosaurs.
- disability — lack of adequate power, strength, or physical or mental ability; incapacity.
- disabusing — Present participle of disabuse.
- disaccords — Plural form of disaccord.
- disadvance — to stop or cause to stop advancing
- disaffects — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disaffect.
- disallowed — Forbidden.
- disamenity — The unpleasant quality or character of something.
- disanalogy — A lack or failure of analogy.
- disanimate — to deprive (a person or thing) of vigour or spirit
- disapparel — to remove the clothing from (a person)
- disappears — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disappear.
- disapplied — Simple past tense and past participle of disapply.
- disappoint — to fail to fulfill the expectations or wishes of: His gross ingratitude disappointed us.
- disapprove — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
- disarrange — to disturb the arrangement of; disorder; unsettle.
- disarrayed — Simple past tense and past participle of disarray.
- disastrous — causing great distress or injury; ruinous; very unfortunate; calamitous: The rain and cold proved disastrous to his health.
- disavowing — Present participle of disavow.
- discoursal — of or relating to discourse
- discussant — a person who participates in a formal discussion or symposium and is responsible for a specific topic.
- dismissals — Plural form of dismissal.
- dispensary — a place where something is dispensed, especially medicines.
- dispersals — Plural form of dispersal.
- dispersant — something that disperses.
- disposable — designed for or capable of being thrown away after being used or used up: disposable plastic spoons; a disposable cigarette lighter.
- dissatisfy — to cause to be displeased, especially by failing to provide something expected or desired.