10-Letter Words Starting with S

Mexican plants.

""Any of a series of compounds of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen in which the atoms of the latter two elements are in the ratio of 2:1, especially those containing the group C 6 H 10 O 5 .""

Furnished with little sacs.

Lead actors dressed for the priesthood (wordplay)

Unusual actors' deal concerning priesthood

Like a priest's attire, making a lot scared unfortunately

Holiness

Given up for the greater good

Acted unselfishly

Gave up

They hold a biker's stuff

Horseman's gear.

Pony-express pouches

Saddlebow

SADDLE to put a leather seat for a rider on a horse

SADDLE to put a leather seat for a rider on a horse

Saddlery

It's backing horse to muddle through most of the way

Tested watch's seconds machinery in case something goes wrong

Sailboard

SAILPLANE

Sainthood

Tailed amphibian related to the newt

Lizard-like amphibian

Mythical fire lizard

Mixed salad prepared in island (Guam)

Amusing lad playing medley

Grand mixed salad

Salmonoid

Consecrated

Being converted, dies in fact as a saint (wordplay)

Holy.

Permitted or penalized

Imposed punishment of a kind that's permitted

Permissible

Sandal

Clog material (wordplay)

Huarache material (wordplay)

Tree used for making footwear (wordplay)

Played down, say

Used crude force

Obstructed, outmanoeuvred

One gaining an edge by deceit

Deceitful one

Gangs bred a mongrel as surprise attacker

Removes paint, in a way

Scours Sweden and Belgium to meet foot models

Rubber plant found by the shore

Defamation gets student sent down for flier

Sandfish

Bird soared and guns fired

Kid who plays neighborhood baseball

Takes the edge off (wordplay)

""SANDPAPER A tube of vitrified sand, produced by a stroke of lightning; a fulgurite""

Gritty flutists (wordplay)

Gritty flutists?

Eleven shore birds

Quartzite and such

Grayish-brown hues

Some countertop materials

Desert dustups (wordplay)

Desert blow-ups

Desert hazards.

Inserted between.

Was hidden plastic, encasing canine opening, like a filling (wordplay)

Some culinary heroes (wordplay)

Lunch-counter orders

Heroes, for example

Sangfroid

Sapidity

Sapodilla

Converted (a fat) into soap

Sarabande

Sardonyx

Satinwood

Saturniid

Scabbard

(Of a building) encased for repairs in a temporary framework

SCANDAL to {defame=v}

Shock as canal sides crumble

Shock by impropriety

View Surrealist works by European producing shock

Shock.

Scandal

Shocking Prince "Batman" song (wordplay)

Describing a school at play (wordplay)

Shocking and offensive

Words in 48-point type

Front page phenomena.

Sensational front-page items.

Scheduler

Schedule

Playfully, on a music score

Jokingly, in musical terminology

Playfully, in music

REVILED

SCIENTIZE

Scombroid

Conductor's stand (wordplay)

Jazz performance display (wordplay)

Ball park feature.

Where some eagles are seen

They supply data from the Telegraph

Stadium souvenirs

""Of or belonging to the suborder Scorpaenoidei, which includes the scorpion fishes and rockfishes.""

Consummate cads

Heels

Scouther

Scowder

The movie industry; Hollywood.

""SCRIMMAGE Formerly, a skirmish; now, a general row or confused fight or struggle.""

Scrootch

Wild expanse

Bushfire locales

SCRUMMAGE See Scrimmage. Scrimmage.

With fine and regular features, son grew to assume power

Carved

Chiseled

Seastrand

SECLUDED seclude

Not new - part of watch!

Watch! It goes around (wordplay)

Used to be found on watch (wordplay)

Laid-back quality

Tranquility

Dignity.

Deposited into a bank

The act of seducing.

Seduction

She may have dresses cut beguilingly

Woman who leads astray

Salome, for example

Sedulity

Diligently, painstakingly

Seedeater

Thus kept a part as one

Gets agreed damages set aside

Gets agreed alternative set aside

Aria from "Carmen."

Fast Spanish dance

""SEMAPHORE A signal telegraph; an apparatus for giving signals by the disposition of lanterns, flags, oscillating arms, etc.""

Rather arid region

Area of limited growth

Habitat for some scorpions

Somewhat angelic

DRYING the act of drying

Semidwarf

FEUDAL pertaining to an ancient political and economic system

FITTED fit

Semifluid

Half liquid; semifluid.

Seminomad

NUDITY the state of being {nude=adj}

SACRED consecrated or holy

Semisolid

SENSITISE

Made more aware

Sentinel

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

""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.""

Mariachis, for example

Wooers, perhaps

Singers under balconies

Playing in attempt to win hand

Playing to win hand

Romantic singing orchestrated in Eastern gardens

Top player pocketing Arab cash is in parts

SERIALIZE

Spoke from the pulpit

Preached

Servitude

Turned blue (wordplay)

Like many pop culture images

Sforzando

Shadbush

Shadchan

Most mysterious

In full light.

Legendary sword: may yours never grow so!

Adjective meaning resembling

Thug's threats

Extortions through blackmail

Extortions

Very modest, bashful

Showing guilty embarrassment

Red, perhaps

Ginger ale and beer

Mixture of beverages.

Pub order

Impressed a sailor without his knowing!

Eastern city editor may be impressed

Coerced into crewmanship

Sheepfold

""A large and valuable sparoid food fish (Archosargus, ∨ Diplodus, probatocephalus) found on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It often weighs from ten to twelve pounds. Archosargus, ∨ Diplodus, probatocephalus) found on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It often weighs from ten to twelve pounds.""

Sheikhdom

Sheldrake

Finished, in a way

High-speed option on the East Coast

Defeated soundly

Emulated Bo-Peep

Tended sheep

Escorted

""SHERIFF a law-enforcement officer of a county, also SHIREMAN, SHIRRA""

Shewbread

Shipboard

A dress tailored like a shirt with a collar and buttons down the front. Also called shirtwaist .

Run-down state.

Slapdash result

Poor quality footwear worn by clergyman in earliest of services

Squeezed (into)

Stole

Place for a mannequin

It shows what's in store for outsiders

Where things are shown to advantage

Shorebird

Shoreward

Bobby's favorite snack (wordplay)

Rich crumbly biscuit

Lorna Doone makeup

Shorthand

Shotgun

Took on (a burden)

Took, as with a burden

Showboat

Showbread

Perforated part of a bathroom fitting

Certain water dispenser

Bathtub fixture

Group of apes

Clever business sense

Yankee trait.

I have two lines in small part as an old man (wordplay)

His drug den is shaky!

The source of the milk in the inside of the shake

Go with many directors and face growth

Furniture with whiskers

Team gets on to produce furniture items in dining rooms

Past tense or past participle

Certain windows

Bits of extra information ... and a hint to this puzzle's circles

Bits of extra information... and a hint to this puzzle's circles

Sideliner

Sideline

Parts of eyeglasses.

A kind of meteorite. See under Meteorite. Meteorite.

Like a lady up but not over (wordplay)

One way to ride a horse.

Teams go off riding in unorthodox manner

English word

Swimmer's skill.

Relative of the crawl

Style of swimming

Went door to door (wordplay)

Struck a glancing blow

Hits, as a car.

Hits with a glancing blow

Glancing bows

Gets off the point

Diverts team and follows

Diverts

See title (wordplay)

Rattlesnake or missile

Rattlesnake - air-to-air missile

SIGNALISE

SIGNALIZE To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish.

Signboard

Signified

Marked with roadside pointers

Silicify

Joint team coming second (wordplay)

Meat for Olympic runners-up (wordplay)

Joint Argentine XI

A perennial rosaceous herb (Potentilla Anserina) having the leaves silvery white beneath. Potentilla Anserina) having the leaves silvery white beneath.

Nearly identical quality

Resemblance or semblance

Lack of distinction limited us, I recollected

Made plain.

Made easier

Made easy

Oscillating (wave form)

Like alternating current

Like some waves in turbulent sound I sail

Women with similar habits (wordplay)

Kinship between women

Community of nuns

Participate in the X Games, perhaps

Teen's transportation, perhaps

Rage created in "Back to the Future"

Made oneself scarce

Ran off hurriedly

Hightailed it

""SKEDADDLE To betake one's self to flight, as if in a panic; to flee; to run away.""

Takes flight desk shifts, adds getting the French on board

Scrams

Skiddoo

Engaged in a minor conflict

Skydiving

SKYLIGHT a window in the ceiling

Slanderer

Slander

Done as slur (anagram)

Defamatory? Ronald sues anyway

Soil inside grave I removed? That's defamatory

Slapdash

One nodding off (2 words)

Yawning child (wordplay)

Slacker ground he'd ply with ease

Most tenuous.

Most willowy

Remove excess fat

Reduce in size

Slipform

SLOGANIZE

SLUGGARD a habitually lazy person

""A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.""

Final word of 1961: 'emerald-green'

Final word of 1961: "emerald-green"

""A green foliated kind of amphibole, observed in eclogite and some varietis of gabbro.""

Smartweed

Like some fires

Like the eyes of a Casanova

Eliminated rough edges

Society decayed and harboured bad emotions

""The quality or state of being smudged, soiled, or blurred.""

Snakebird

Snakeweed

Break to stretch out - such a bloomer!

St. George's bloomer (wordplay)

Photograph a monitor lizard (wordplay)