10-letter words starting with s
- salmanaser — a large wine bottle containing 2.10 gallons
- salmanazar — a wine bottle holding from 10 to 12 quarts (9.5 to 11.4 liters).
- salmonella — any of several rod-shaped, facultatively anaerobic bacteria of the genus Salmonella, as S. typhosa, that may enter the digestive tract of humans and other mammals in contaminated food and cause abdominal pains and violent diarrhea.
- saloon car — Also, saloon carriage. a railway sleeping, dining, or parlor car similar to a U.S. Pullman.
- salopettes — a garment worn for skiing, consisting of quilted trousers reaching to the chest and held up by shoulder straps
- salpingian — a trumpet-shaped tube, as a Fallopian or Eustachian tube.
- salt chuck — the ocean.
- salt gland — a gland, located in the head of seabirds and various marine mammals and reptiles, that secretes into the nasal passages the excess salt imbibed or ingested.
- salt glaze — a ceramic glaze on stoneware produced by the chemical reaction that occurs when salt is thrown into a kiln during firing.
- salt grass — any of several grasses, as Distichlis spicata, that grow in salt marshes or meadows or in alkali soil.
- salt horse — salted beef; salt junk.
- salt marsh — a marshy tract that is wet with salt water or flooded by the sea.
- salt mines — Dense quarters housing large numbers of programmers working long hours on grungy projects, with some hope of seeing the end of the tunnel in N years. Noted for their absence of sunshine. Compare playpen, sandbox.
- salt river — a river flowing W from E Arizona to the Gila River near Phoenix: Roosevelt Dam. 200 miles (322 km) long.
- salt shake — a salt shaker.
- salt spoon — a small spoon with which to take salt at the table.
- salt stick — a crusty bread roll sprinkled with salt crystals, made in the shape of a cylinder.
- salt water — water containing a large amount of salt.
- saltarello — a lively Italian dance for one person or a couple.
- saltcellar — a shaker or dish for salt.
- saltigrade — moving by leaping.
- salting-in — Salting-in is the effect when adding a salt to a solvent containing an organic solute increases the solubility of that solute.
- salton sea — a shallow saline lake in S California, in the Imperial Valley, formed by the diversion of water from the Colorado River into a salt-covered depression (Salton Sink) 236 feet (72 meters) below sea level.
- saltshaker — table-salt dispenser
- salubrious — favorable to or promoting health; healthful: salubrious air.
- salutation — the act of saluting.
- salutatory — pertaining to or of the nature of a salutation.
- salvadoran — of El Salvador or its people or culture
- salverform — (of the corolla of the phlox and certain other flowers) consisting of a narrow tube with flat spreading terminal petals
- salvifical — saving
- salzgitter — a city in Lower Saxony, in central Germany, SE of Hanover.
- samana cay — a small, uninhabited island in the central Bahamas: now believed to be first land in the New World seen by Christopher Columbus 1492. 9 miles (14 km) long.
- samariform — having the form of a samara.
- samarskite — a velvet-black mineral, a complex columbate-tantalate of uranium, cerium, etc., occurring in masses: a minor source of uranium, thorium, and rare-earth oxides.
- same again — You say 'same again' when you want to order another drink of the same kind as the one you have just had.
- sammartini — Giovanni Battista [jaw-vahn-nee baht-tee-stah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni bɑtˈti stɑ/ (Show IPA), 1698–1775, Italian composer and organist.
- samothrace — a Greek island in the NE Aegean.
- sampaguita — (in the Philippines) an Arabian jasmine.
- san angelo — a city in W Texas.
- san benito — a city in S Texas.
- san carlos — a city in W California, S of San Francisco.
- san felipe — a city in NE Venezuela, on the Orinoco River.
- san german — a city in SW Puerto Rico.
- san manuel — a town in S Arizona.
- san marcos — a city in S central Texas.
- san marino — a small republic in E Italy: the oldest independent country in Europe. 38 sq. mi. (98 sq. km). Capital: San Marino.
- san martin — José de [haw-se th e] /hɔˈsɛ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1778–1850, South American general and statesman, born in Argentina: leader in winning independence for Argentina, Peru, and Chile; protector of Peru 1821–22.
- san miguel — a city in E El Salvador.
- san rafael — a city in W Argentina.
- sanatorium — a hospital for the treatment of chronic diseases, as tuberculosis or various nervous or mental disorders.