10-Letter Words Starting with S

Ivory carvings

""Pl. scriptoriums or scriptoria (-tôr - , -t r -) A room in a monastery set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts and records.""

From the law and the prophets, say

From the Bible

Second vault addressed Russia's range of writing

One suffering an attack by Saul Bellow

The Gospels

Sacred writings

Professional copyists

Pen wielders.

Archaic term for "clerks."

Diseased flour cooked and eaten by Liverpudlian missing drug

Scroggy

Ornamental designs

Ornamentation.

Scrooch

Scrootch

Scrootch

They treat urges to work with scorn

Scroungy

Scrounge

The act or an instance of scrubbing.

Scrubby

Wild expanse

Bushfire locales

A woman hired to clean.

A woman hired to clean.

Most unkempt

SCRUMMAGE See Scrimmage. Scrimmage.

Scrummage

Squeezing (together)

Conscientious to a carpenter (wordplay)

Honest or careful

*Guided by strict principles

Cross-examiner (wordplay)

Someone who checks electoral votes

Current head of English is new examiner

Close examinations

Examine closely - runs cities (anagram)

Examine closely tailoring of nicer suits

Examine the tailoring of nicer suits

Look at critically or searchingly

Rooms for cleaning pots and pans

She could find work a relief

Fates ring the Navy, stretching from pole to pole

Female artist's anxiety about line in cup

Of Praxiteles's art

With fine and regular features, son grew to assume power

Carved

Chiseled

Some Bernini creations

Carver's masterpieces

Define statutes

Scungilli

Scunner

Sin, king, on purpose

""The quality or state of being scurrile or scurrilous; mean, vile, or obscene jocularity.""

Unjustifiably defamatory

Grossly insulting

Obscenely slanderous

No such infamy for limeys (wordplay)

Contemptibility

Scutcheon

SCUTELLA scutellum

Scutter

Of or belonging to the class Scyphozoa.

Seabeach

Capable of being searched.

Impossible to be searched; inscrutable; impenetrable.

""A disease of the sebaceous glands characterized by excessive secretion of sebum or an alteration in its quality, resulting in an oily coating, crusts, or scales on the skin.""

Secession

SECLUDED seclude

Seclusion

Not new - part of watch!

Watch! It goes around (wordplay)

Used to be found on watch (wordplay)

Hidden atomic particles (wordplay)

Discharges

Members of religious factions

Those insects got the second artisan beaten

Modular parlor pieces

The eccentric got in, since causing division

False clues crop up to sideline belief

Disengage from the faithful? Awful clues result

Doctrine bothering aimless cur

Profane belief in Lear's music melody

A religious school of thought in Church's place

""One who theoretically rejects every form of religious faith, and every kind of religious worship, and accepts only the facts and influences which are derived from the present life; also, one who believes that education and other matters of civil policy should be managed without the introduction of a religious element.""

Supreme attention to the things of the present life; worldliness.

Make less ecclesiastical

Make worldly

Act of acquiring.

The condition or quality of being secure; exemption from fear; want of vigilance; security.

Stocks, treasury bonds, etc.

Valuable holdings

SECURE to make safe or certain

The act of seducing.

Seduction

She may have dresses cut beguilingly

Woman who leads astray

Salome, for example

Seecatch

Fortune teller's lollipop (wordplay)

Someone looking a fool at the draper's

Cloth that's small for top of beer mug

""SEISMIC pertaining to an earthquake, also SEISMAL""

Selachian

SELECTA a disc jockey

Concert program listing

Sommelier's stock

Results of voting

Discrimination

SEMANTIC pertaining to {meaning=n}

Outward appearances

Aspects

Semeiotic

Array of trucks (wordplay)

The result of making a CD (wordplay)

Half a ring (wordplay)

; ;

COLONY a settlement of emigrants in a new land

PUBLIC people as a whole

SACRED consecrated or holy

SECRET something that is kept from the knowledge of others

Like Paraguay's climate

The physical process of ageing

Process of aging

Quality of the superannuated

Seneschal

Declaring punishment for offender

Judge's job, at times

Part of some trials

Sentience

""Poison blood poisoning caused by pathogenic microorganisms and their toxic products in the bloodstream. ; septicemic, ; septicaemic,""

SEPTIC an agent producing sepsis

Dividing the partitions; said of a method of dehiscence in which a pod splits through the partitions and is divided into its component carpels.

Sepulcher

Purcell has developed melancholy

Hollow and deep

Purcell has composed, despite being gloomy

""SEPULCHRE The place in which the dead body of a human being is interred, or a place set apart for that purpose; a grave; a tomb.""

Sepulchre

Inclined to follow a leader; following; attendant.

Sequencer

Sequency

Determining the order of most of the dancing in middle of night

Like some plays.

Half-and-half kind of drama

Maybe a private priest (wordplay)

Chaplain, perhaps one in Army (wordplay)

Bishop perhaps fixes the washing machine

People in the armed forces

Members of armed forces

Members of the armed forces.

Cuts.

Shadchan

Very modest, bashful

Showing guilty embarrassment

Red, perhaps

An arch support inserted into the shank of a shoe.

Sharecrop

Shashlick

Sheepcote

Finished, in a way

High-speed option on the East Coast

Defeated soundly

Shellback

Some contain treasure

Such as 5 down lost 9 down

Hatteras occurrences

SHOCKING shock

Protected, in a way

Resistant to violent impact

Like some timepieces

Shoeblack

Items in a pastry shop

Strawberry or peach concoctions

Desserts often served with strawberries

Displaying, exhibiting

Who's mess jacket for exhibition (wordplay)

Highlighting

Showpiece

Theatres (wordplay)

Properties on display

Shylock

Sibilance

Sicklemia

State of ill-health

Sickness

Parts of eyeglasses.

Gets off the point

Diverts team and follows

Diverts

Silicify

Silicify

Silicotic

Primate needing two seconds (wordplay)

Head gorilla, with distinctive coloring

Adult male gorilla

Of the crime of traffic in sacred things

SIMPLICIA simplex

Couldn't be easier!

Lack of affectation

Start of a quip

Ignoring real complexity

Not recognising true complexity

Naive; ignoring complexities

Simulacre

Semblance, superficial likeness

Image; effigy

Some radio productions

Airs on many stations

Games on radio and TV at the same time, e.g

Of or pertaining to the sinciput; being in the region of the sinciput.

Sinicize

SKELETON the supporting bone structure of a body

Show me state (wordplay)

"Show me" state (wordplay)

Doubt about the truth of something

*Art class supply

Artist's vade mecum

Artist's pad

Least helpful, as a description

Most scanty? Stick with these pants

Aerial menaces

Act of illegally diverting an aircraft

Rises rapidly: Colloq.

Rises rapidly Colloq.

Goes up very fast.

Picture on a big-city postcard, perhaps

High-rise building (wordplay)

*Chicago's Sears Tower, for one

Slowing

Loosening

Slapstick

""The persons or interest formerly representing slavery politically, or wielding political power for the preservation or advancement of slavery.""

Slickrock

They're fitted for furniture

Upholsterer's project

They may be on your chairs

Slivovic

Slouchy

Sluiceway

Smearcase

Smiercase

Smokejack

A fuming column (wordplay)

Steam locomotive feature

Ship's funnel

Smutchy

Snatchy

Snickerer

Snicker

Like some tall mountains

Like a white peak

Tired about absence of throne, like some in high places (wordplay)

Snowscape

SOCIALISE

Socialise

Socialism

Britain's political leaders.

Party for winner of last trials left politicians

Anyway, about this secretive government group's itemized documents... (wordplay)

Ones at debutante balls

Converted to public ownership

SOCIALIZE To render social.

Socialize

SOCIETAL pertaining to a {society=n}

Sociogram

""The study of human social behavior, especially the study of the origins, organization, institutions, and development of human society.""

""Mankind the measurement of social attitudes within a group by sampling expressions of social acceptance or rejection. ; sociometrist, ; sociometrie,""

*The girls in "Gone Girl" and "Girl, Interrupted," for two

Beach books, often

Comfort to one in grief

Solecise

Unschooled

Solecize

One who solicits.

Touting for work (as a prostitute)

Lawyers, to Brits

Unwelcome doorbell ringers, often

Dodson and Fogg, in "Pickwick Papers."

Lobby around America showing concern

Showing concerned attention

Concerned over America, therefore allowed to go first

Expressed concern about idiot's clue!

Concern of many in a lonely place

Care, concern

Solonchak

""SOLONETZ a type of soil, also SOLONETS""

Solvency

A chemical reaction in which the solute and solvent react to form a new compound.

Dropping off lemon scone that's cooked

Sleepiness comes on Len unexpectedly

Drowsiness.

Sonicate

SONICATE to disrupt with sound waves

Pertaining to a second-year student (US)

Like a lot of humor in this puzzle, maturity-wise, admittedly

Long-winded speeches, for example

Sleep-inducing medicaments

Volume of original documents for study

SOURCE to originate from

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