10-Letter Words Starting with S

Mineral lets delicate little person keep healthy

Sphenodon

English word

Sphenoid.

English word

""The quality or state of being spherial; roundness; as, the sphericity of the planets, or of a drop of water. as, the sphericity of the planets, or of a drop of water.""

Nearly globe-shaped

Resembling a globe.

Fashion from Dior's a help with a round figure

""A minute spherical crystalline body having a radiated structure, observed in some vitreous volcanic rocks, as obsidian and pearlstone.""

Muscular contractors in pub stopping cisterns juddering

Inscrutable

Inscrutable

Enigmatic

Sphygmus

Spidery

Like a spider.

Intricate designs in nature

""An American endogenous plant (Tradescantia Virginica), with long linear leaves and ephemeral blue flowers. The name is sometimes extended to other species of the same genus. Tradescantia Virginica), with long linear leaves and ephemeral blue flowers. The name is sometimes extended to other species of the same genus.""

""Spiffier , spiffiest Smart in appearance or dress; stylish.""

Spikenard

Game, also called jackstraws

Game without kids (in bed?) is engaging relations

Rejected fielders admit enjoyin' the game

They slop out of buckets

Most long, thin and frail-looking

Tell tales about duke on starter of tempura being least fat

Spindrift

Spinifex

Bellies out for sale, by the sound of them

Sails.

Spinneret

Yarn mills

Unsteadily slips with entry - like an old maid (wordplay)

Of or pertaining to a spiracle.

Spiral

In a lively manner

Spiritism

Spiritist

The universe of Blackmore and Vidal

Not at all lively without fire-water

'Medium' hopefully not so droopy

'Go Down, Moses' and others

Mahalia Jackson forte

Songs of a sort.

""Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure.""

""Any of various slender, spiral, motile bacteria of the order Spirochaetales, many of which are pathogenic, causing syphilis, relapsing fever, yaws, and other diseases.""

Spirogyra

One discovers how much inspiration there has been

The measurement of lung capacity

With malice aforethought

That's with Ma, lice

With malice

""Any of various leaping, homopterous insects of the family Cercopidae, the nymphs of which form frothy masses of liquid on plant stems. Also called froghopper , spittle insect .""

Of or pertaining to the viscera; visceral.

A drop in the ocean

Flight ending for some

Certain Apollo landing

Like the greatest show on earth (wordplay)

Made a mess, maybe

Splashed (all over the place)

Sloshed water on.

Spleeny

Small fern once used medicinally

Small fern that grows in rosettes on rocks and walls

Splendid

Magnificently

Having no children, bestow identity on couple from Lyon with much magnificence

At sea, so plunders magnificent stuff

Fork out about fifty on excursions with no time for such wonders

Great light or luster; brilliance.

Splenetic

Spleuchan

Cracked lips, tender perhaps

Broke into small, sharp pieces

Fragmented

Splotchy

Splotch

Splurgy

Records spinning, said remarks thus indistinct (wordplay)

Struggled to get words out when rushed to grasp line, say

One who splutters.

Spodumene

One who won't play (wordplay)

Rewards of victory, plus drink? Misery!

Troops slip over wet blanket

Plane for shaping curved surfaces

Tool said to have succeeded getting in

Tool said to cut closely

Spoliate

Plundering

If one ails, this potion may be the ruination of one

Spoliator

English word

Resilience.

Ability to absorb liquids comes from various openings in middle of tissue

Failing prison also for godparents

Pertaining to a patron.

Sponsor

Spoofery

Spookery

Haunted house atomosphere.

Pet notes for fliers

Ibis relatives

Kiss-and-cuddle accounts are for the birds

Hated the book, perhaps

Belly jeans, for example (wordplay)

Blushing crow, perhaps

SPORANGIA

""A spore case in the cryptogamous plants, as in ferns, etc.""

SPORICIDE

Sporicide

Sporocarp

Sporocyst

Biology ()

English word

""Reproduction by multiple fission of a spore or zygote, characteristic of many sporozoans. Sporogony results in the production of sporozoites.""

A placenta.

A leaf or leaflike organ that bears spores.

""In plants exhibiting alternation of generations, the generation which bears asexual spores; -- opposed to gametophyte. It is not clearly differentiated in the life cycle of the lower plants.gametophyte. It is not clearly differentiated in the life cycle of the lower plants.""

Sporozoan

""In certain Sporozoa, a small active, usually elongate, sickle-shaped or somewhat am\'d2boid spore, esp. one of those produced by division of the passive spores into which the zygote divides. The sporozoites reproduce asexually.""

SPORTFUL {playful=adj}

""Sportier , sportiest Appropriate for sport or participation in sports.""

In sport; sportively.

In fun

Football on TV, say

Warner Wolf specialty

Prime-time fare

Strip for action!

Tracksuit perhaps fits uphill runner

Exhibits flower with spikes, say

SPORULATE

Sporulate

SPOTLESS {clean=adj}

Focuses on insults about belly

Stage illuminators

Strong beams

Feature of bad cell-phone reception

Uncertainty

Irregularity

Spraddle

Sprattle

Sprawly

SPREAD to stretch over an area

Spriggy

Full of spirit or of life; earnest; vivacious; lively; brisk; nimble; gay.

Springald

Seasonal hamper expressly for rugby team

Small gazelles

Graceful gazelles

Springe

A fountain or source.

Elastic persisting, most flexible

Leaps and bounds

Like some February days

Vernal

Primitive jumping insect

Tiny, jumpy insect

Small 18 ac

Dregs in pit (anagram)

Skip and diet perhaps early in the year

It occurs at new and full moon

Season well with herb, say

The highlight of a leap year (wordplay)

Name invoking fascism

""Young, usually soft wood that lies directly beneath the bark and develops in early spring.""

High level fire fighters (wordplay)

Kids might run through them

Lawn gear.

Occasionally super idea shows dash

Cast about to dress up and dash

A little shy around groom

Spritsail

Smart quality.

Spryness

Past tense or past participle

Spirit of revolutionary beasts? Extremely serious!

Spurgall

SPURIOUS not genuine

Sputterer

Celebrate outside club, jabbering

Speaking while flurried

Fitful

*Hand-held telescopes

Crow's-nest instruments

Crow's-nest telescopes

Leaders with intelligence (wordplay)

They run sleepers (wordplay)

Ms Principal seeing agent's coming round

Squabby

They're given to spats

Contentious ones

Pigeon's adornment (wordplay)

Young bird, showy and argumentative

Bickering

Formed defense groups, of a sort

Squalid

Squally

SQUAMATE covered with scales

Squamosal

Having little scales; squamellate; squamulate.

Played ducks and drakes with

Frittered away

Recklessly wasted

One who squanders.

""The quality of being square; as, an instrument to try the squareness of work. as, an instrument to try the squareness of work.""

SQUARISH somewhat square

Squashy

Squatter

Squatty

Squawroot

Squeaky

Squishy, as paper towels

Compressible object inviting a hug (wordplay)

Squelcher

Squelchy

Squelch

Gray trout

Squiffy

More wavy and twisting

Squiggle

Squinch

Squinny

Squinny

Squinty

""The gentlemen, or gentry, of a country, collectively.""

Squirmy

Stored up for future use Colloq.

Stored up for future use: Colloq.

Stashed (away).

Eccentric

Squishy

Squooshy

Squoosh

STABILIZE

STABILIZE

Stabilize

One to horse around with (wordplay)

Reliable spouse (wordplay)

Level-headed groom?

""The quality or state of being stable, or firmly established; stability.""

Stablish

Stablish

Transport for drama teacher (wordplay)

Member of the drama faculty (wordplay)

Old transport at RADA (wordplay)

Playwright's skill

Theater crew's area of expertise

Skill of old coach on ship

Some Broadway employees

They have properties, can't sell

Play assisters

Staggerer

Inebriate movement beyond comprehension

Incredible male with ginger snap

Rocking and rolling

Staghound

In a stagnant manner.

Stagnate

Race to support investor's inactivity!

Result of standing too long, maybe

Deer country (wordplay)

English word

Transitions between stories (wordplay)

Way to declare luggage on flights

Up-down places at school.

Shafts for flights

They handle flights and landings

Certain compartments in buildings

Overhead projection (wordplay)

A hanging for a caveman (wordplay)

Structure deposited on cave roof

A prison-camp child that is growing up!

A certain point underground (wordplay)

Cave floor growth

Took Tal to a tie

Brought to a standstill.

At an impasse

Old married folks (wordplay)

Boring partners (wordplay)

Boring partners?

In a steadfast way

Resolutely.

Stalworth

""Pl. staminodes also staminodia (-n d - ) A sterile stamen, sometimes resembling a petal, as in the canna.""

Involuntarily repetitious speakers

Their speech is never straightforward

Involuntary repetitious speakers

Halting in words.

Speaking with involuntary pauses

With involuntary hesitation in speech

Cattle in a panic

Surging like stallions

Start to put your foot down to be getting away with it

Supporters chant and son is going wild

Velvet rope holders

Upright supports

STANDARD an established measure of comparison

Standish

Standpipe

Attitude (towards an issue)

Attitude towards a particular issue

Position on a subject.