10-Letter Words Starting with S

Leave of absence.

Period of leave for university teacher

John Barth's leave

""Either one of two species of birds composing the genus Chionis, and family Chionid\'91, native of the islands of the Antarctic.seas. Chionis, and family Chionid\'91, native of the islands of the Antarctic.seas.""

Base man (wordplay)

Contemptible sort, in slang

Despicable sort

Bloomer haunts 28, they say

Baby-carrier found in the garden

Delivery charge for a flowering plant (wordplay)

Under the center.

CRUSTAL pertaining to the earth's crust

""Pertaining or belonging to the under side of a glacier; being beneath a glacier; as, subglacial streams. as, subglacial streams.""

Kind of TV ad technique

Below the conscious level

Like underhanded advertising

""Situated under the tongue; as, the sublingual gland. as, the sublingual gland.""

MAXIMAL an element of a mathematical set that is followed by no other

MINIMAL an element of a mathematical set that precedes all others

MUCOSAL resembling a {mucosa=n}

*Middling or worse

Ballesteros, initially 1 up, almost shot under par

ORBITAL a subdivision of a nuclear shell

TEXTUAL pertaining to a {text=n}

""Of or pertaining to a symbol or symbols; of the nature of a symbol; exhibiting or expressing by resemblance or signs; representative; as, the figure of an eye is symbolic of sight and knowledge.as, the figure of an eye is symbolic of sight and knowledge.""