10-letter words starting with so
- sophrosyne — moderation; discretion; prudence.
- sordamente — (of a piece of music) to be played softly or gently
- soricident — having shrewlike teeth
- sororicide — a person who kills his or her sister.
- sorrentino — Gilbert, 1929–2006, U.S. poet and novelist.
- sorrowless — having no sorrow
- sortileger — a diviner
- sotto voce — in a low, soft voice so as not to be overheard.
- sou marque — a billon coin of France, issued in the 18th century for circulation in the colonies.
- sou'wester — a waterproof hat, often of oilskin, having the brim very broad behind and slanted, worn especially by seamen.
- souari nut — the large, edible, oily nut of a tall tree, Caryocar nuciferum, of tropical South America.
- soubresaut — a jump performed with the legs held together and the body erect but slightly curved to the side.
- soubriquet — sobriquet.
- soul music — a fervent type of popular music developed in the late 1950s by black Americans as a secularized form of gospel music, with rhythm-and-blues influences, and distinctive for its earthy expressiveness, variously plaintive or raucous vocals, and often passionate romanticism or sensuality.
- soul patch — a small patch of facial hair below the centre of the lower lip and above the chin
- sound bite — a brief, striking remark or statement excerpted from an audiotape or videotape for insertion in a broadcast news story.
- sound file — an audio file that can be played by a computer or other electronic device
- sound film — a film on which sound has been or is to be recorded, as for the soundtrack of a motion picture.
- sound head — a mechanism through which film passes in a projector for conversion of the soundtrack into audio-frequency signals that can be amplified and reproduced.
- sound hole — an opening in the soundboard of a musical stringed instrument, as a violin or lute, for increasing the soundboard's capacity for vibration.
- sound line — a line fastened to a harpoon and carried down into the water by a whale when sounding
- sound wave — a longitudinal wave in an elastic medium, especially a wave producing an audible sensation.
- soundalike — a person or thing that sounds like another, especially a better known or more famous prototype: a whole spate of Elvis Presley soundalikes.
- soundboard — sounding board.
- soundproof — impervious to sound.
- soundscape — the component sounds of an environment.
- soundstage — a soundproof room or building in which cinematic films are shot
- soundtrack — the narrow band on one or both sides of a motion-picture film on which sound is recorded.
- soup plate — a deep, concave plate used especially for serving soup.
- soup spoon — A soup spoon is a spoon used for eating soup. The bowl-like part at the end of it is round.
- sour cream — cream soured by the lactic acid produced by a ferment.
- sour crude — Sour crude is crude oil with a high sulfur content.
- sour gourd — the acid fruit of any of several African or Australian trees belonging to the genus Adansonia, of the bombax family, as the baobab, A. digitata.
- sour-faced — bad-tempered and unfriendly
- sourcebook — a book which contains sources of information on a particular subject
- sourceless — any thing or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; origin: Which foods are sources of calcium?
- sourdeline — a type of bagpipe
- sousaphone — a form of bass tuba, similar to the helicon, used in brass bands.
- souterrain — a subterranean passage or structure; grotto.
- south asia — the countries and land area of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, India, the Maldives, Nepal, and Pakistan.
- south bend — a city in N Indiana.
- south gate — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- south node — the descending node of the moon.
- south pass — a mountain pass in SW Wyoming, cutting through the Rocky Mountains at the S of the Wind River range: part of the Oregon Trail.
- south pole — the region of a magnet toward which the lines of magnetic induction converge (south pole) or from which the lines of induction diverge (north pole)
- south seas — the seas south of the equator
- south-east — The south-east is the direction which is halfway between south and east.
- south-west — The south-west is the direction which is halfway between south and west.
- southbound — traveling southward.
- southerner — a native or inhabitant of the south.