10-letter words starting with s
- sea ranger — a senior Guide training in seamanship
- sea return — radar signals that are reflected by a body of water and hamper target identification.
- sea robber — a pirate.
- sea rocket — any of several plants of the related genus Cakile, esp C. maritima, which grow along the seashores of Europe and North America and have mauve, pink, or white flowers
- sea slater — a large (2.5 cm or 1 in.) nocturnal isopod, Ligea oceanica, that lives in cracks in rocks or walls around the high-water mark
- sea spider — any member of the arthropod class Pycnogonida, marine invertebrates with eight long walking legs attached to a small body consisting of a cephalothorax and vestigial abdomen.
- sea squill — sea onion (def 1).
- sea squirt — any tunicate, especially a sessile ascidian, so called from its habit of contracting its body and ejecting streams of water when disturbed.
- sea tangle — any of various seaweeds, especially of the genus Laminaria.
- sea trials — a series of trial runs to test the performance of a new ship.
- sea turtle — any of several large turtles of the families Cheloniidae and Dermochelyidae, widely distributed in tropical and subtropical seas, having the limbs modified into paddlelike flippers: all sea turtles are either threatened or endangered through most of their range because of ocean pollution.
- sea urchin — any echinoderm of the class Echinoidea, having a somewhat globular or discoid form, and a shell composed of many calcareous plates covered with projecting spines.
- sea walnut — a comb jelly, as of the genus Mnemiopsis, shaped like a walnut.
- sea-breeze — a thermally produced wind blowing from a cool ocean surface onto adjoining warm land.
- seaborgium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Sg; atomic number: 106.
- seakeeping — the ability of a vessel to endure rough conditions at sea and navigate safely during long storms.
- seal beach — a town in S California.
- seal brown — a rich, dark brown suggestive of dressed and dyed sealskin.
- seal point — a Siamese cat having a fawn-colored body and dark-brown points.
- seal-point — a Siamese cat having a fawn-colored body and dark-brown points.
- seamanlike — like or befitting a seaman; showing good seamanship.
- seamanship — knowledge and skill pertaining to the operation, navigation, management, safety, and maintenance of a ship.
- seamlessly — having no seams: seamless stockings.
- seamstress — a woman whose occupation is sewing.
- seannachie — a Gaelic storyteller in the Scottish Highlands or in Ireland
- seaquarium — an area of salt water where sea animals are kept so people can look at them
- search dog — a dog trained to assist rescue workers in finding people buried under rubble by detection by smell
- search out — hunt for, seek
- searchable — to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter.
- searchless — unsearchable; inscrutable.
- searedness — the state of being seared or unfeeling
- seasonable — suitable to or characteristic of the season: seasonable weather.
- seasonally — pertaining to, dependent on, or accompanying the seasons of the year or some particular season; periodical: seasonal work.
- seasonless — one of the four periods of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, but geographically at different dates in different climates.
- seat cover — a cover for a seat
- sebastopol — Sevastopol.
- sebiferous — producing or carrying a fatty, oily, or waxlike substance
- seborrheic — an excessive and abnormal discharge from the sebaceous glands.
- seborrhoea — an excessive and abnormal discharge from the sebaceous glands.
- second man — a person who assists the driver in crewing a locomotive
- second row — the forwards in the second row of a scrum
- second sex — one sex considered as secondary or subordinate in role to the other, especially women in a male-dominated society.
- second-run — designating or of:
- secondhand — not directly known or experienced; obtained from others or from books: Most of our knowledge is secondhand.
- secondment — the transfer of a military officer or corporate executive to another post for temporary duty.
- secretaire — any writing desk resembling a secretary.
- secretness — secrecy
- sectioning — a part that is cut off or separated.
- sectionize — to form or divide into sections
- secularism — secular spirit or tendency, especially a system of political or social philosophy that rejects all forms of religious faith and worship.