10-Letter Words Starting with S

Land situated on the edge of a body of water.

Places where land meets sea

Land edges

Lapping locales

Shoreward

Bobby's favorite snack (wordplay)

Rich crumbly biscuit

Lorna Doone makeup

Items in a pastry shop

Strawberry or peach concoctions

Desserts often served with strawberries

Hem fixers, at times

Cutting down fat

Reducing fat used for cooking

Pie baker's need

Not enough money for most of the briefs and slips

Deficiencies

Shorthair

Shorthand

Neat bugles (wordplay)

Rosters for finalists

Rivals' venues

Groups of hopefuls making provisions for minor shopping sprees (wordplay)

Reese, Marion et al.

I Don't Care et al.

Miranda and Dark.

Shortwave

Shotgun

SHOTGUN to shoot with a type of gun

Took on (a burden)

Took, as with a burden

Shovelful

Shoveller

Put pitch on the outside of shed, using a particular tool

Fish with a useful proboscis (wordplay)

Fish with a useful proboscis?

SHOVELS shovel

SHOWBIZ show business

Showboat

Showbread

Displaying, exhibiting

Who's mess jacket for exhibition (wordplay)

Highlighting

Perforated part of a bathroom fitting

Certain water dispenser

Bathtub fixture

Rainless; freo from showers.

Showpiece

Theatres (wordplay)

Properties on display

Group of apes

Clever business sense

Yankee trait.

SHREWISH ill-tempered

Shrieky

Office of a sheriff

Piercing quality (of sound)

Shrimpy

Adjective meaning resembling

SHRINK to contract or draw back

Shrinkage

SHRIVEL to contract into wrinkles

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

Shrubby

His drug den is shaky!

The source of the milk in the inside of the shake

Shunpiker

Shunpike

One on a shooting spree (wordplay)

One who's constantly snapping (wordplay)

One who's constantly snapping

Closing tightly

Shylock

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

Tops in lovely views

What New York is full of.

Vacationers on a grand tour.

Groups often conducted

Side line for the artist (wordplay)

Dark art (wordplay)

It can be a relief

Bug found in metal perch (wordplay)

Mirrored tarpon (wordplay)

Long John Dory (wordplay)

Women with similar habits (wordplay)

Kinship between women

Community of nuns

They show up in January through June

Fractions.

Semiquavers

*Art class supply

Artist's vade mecum

Artist's pad

Least helpful, as a description

Most scanty? Stick with these pants

Engaged in a minor conflict

Light infantry member

Male wearing item of clothing mostly seen on female causes scuffles

Nervously.

Skreegh

Skreigh

SKYLIGHT a window in the ceiling

Slapdash

SLASHING the act of one that {slashes=v}

Slather

They're killingly funny in the ship

Dispatches produce merriment on board

The giggles of the South are enough to kill them

One nodding off (2 words)

Yawning child (wordplay)

Slacker ground he'd ply with ease

""The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.""

Armed weapons (wordplay)

Hurl some bar orders (wordplay)

Fling some whiskey (wordplay)

Moving like a mamba

SLOTHFUL {sluggish=adj}

Slouchy

Sloughy

Without vigor

Slungshot

Partially melted snow or ice.

SLUTTISH {slovenly=adj}

English word

Very, very well

Smithery

Farm outbuilding

Outbuilding that usually has vents but no windows

Feature of an unrifled firearm

Kind of firearm.

Feature of a shotgun barrel

Eliminated rough edges

Quality or state of being smooth.

More than just doting on

Stifling Mama's kept in Carol

Concealing and disguising things more

Smutchy

SNAPPISH tending to behave in an impatient or irritable manner

Snatchy

SNIFFISH {haughty=adj}

SNOBBISH characteristic of a snob

Snowbush

Snowshoer

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

Simpleminded or lamebrained

Simpleminded

Softshell

Solonchak

In an undetermined place, in dialect

Songsmith

SONOGRAPH

In a soothing manner.

One who sees the future

One who warned Caesar

Expert on the future

American students appear more posh so dressed

Pertaining to a second-year student (US)

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

Afflicted with migraine.

Veteran inhabitants of Alaska.

San Francisco thoroughbreads

Gold Rush prospectors

Marching-band instrument

March king's namesake, in a way

Relative of a helicon

Going from the Bronx to Brooklyn

Headed to Dixie - or stuck there (wordplay)

Southeast

Southland

How this entry appears in the grid

Southwest

Sci-fi crafts

Sci-fi staples

Modern transportation

Spaghetti

See Spatulate. Spatulate.

Asparagus tips? They're in the van!

The points of savage attacks

Leads attack as hare sped off

Unable to say anything

Dumbfounded, say

Dumbfounded (wordplay)

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

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

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)

Spleuchan

Splotchy

Splotch

Plane for shaping curved surfaces

Tool said to have succeeded getting in

Tool said to cut closely

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.""

Focuses on insults about belly

Stage illuminators

Strong beams

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

A fountain or source.

SQUARISH somewhat square

Squashy

Squelcher

Squelchy

Squelch

Squinch

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

Squishy

Squooshy

Squoosh

Stablish

Stablish

Transport for drama teacher (wordplay)

Member of the drama faculty (wordplay)

Old transport at RADA (wordplay)

Some Broadway employees

They have properties, can't sell

Play assisters

Staghound

Stalworth

Supporters chant and son is going wild

Velvet rope holders

Upright supports

Standish

Smash hit - actress is most stiff

Most like pasta and potatoes

Tops in formality

Five-pointers in the sea

Southern sailor has angles on marine creatures

Starlight

Statehood

Legislature's place

Where politicians aren't "fed"

Where some bills are created

Statolith

True to the max

Models' sunhats, etc., can be the most unwavering

Staunch

Less likely to be caught

The realist contrived to be more secretive

How to return after curfew, say

In a covert manner

Cautiously, surreptitiously

Vessels with funnels

Some commercial vessels

Veronica, the cup-bearer

Rainbow trout

Stenchy

Capable of living or growing only within a limited range of temperature.

Faux pa (wordplay)

Onassis to Caroline Kennedy

Mother's new husband

Non-blood relation

A relation by marriage

Stereotypically wicked member of 3

Beggar's ticks.

Shrill, it mutated with TB - tragic end to pregnancy

Stinkhorn

Wild plant with small white flowers

Two chits - right? - required for the plant

Herb as son, little chap with endless merit

Skillful in guessing or conjecturing.

Stokehold

Stomacher

Stomachic

Just barely tolerant of

Oliver talks to the birds (wordplay)

Stonish

Motor vehicle features

They turn at busy intersections

Controllers of traffic flow

Treasury given to retired lady in pickle

Those euros exchanged in treasury

Too sure he's in trouble at the treasury

Storeship

Straight

Eliminate all crooks!

Remove bends from (something)

Tidy up after shattering into pieces

This grater works better!

Mad Hatter's rig is more respectable

Second rat reported and more in order

In a right line; not crookedly.

Stramash

Holds on in a vehicle

Slow Scottish dance

Scot. country dance

Dance with shyster apt to twist

Make something more powerful

Make more effective.

Get NHS rent reviewed and grow stronger

Litters street with those being sick

Ambulance accessories

Handheld transports