10-Letter Words Starting with S

Screechy

Noise from boobooks

Movie presentations

""Screwier , screwiest Slang Eccentric; crazy.""

Junk drawers (wordplay)

Scribble

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

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

Football squad warm-ups

Pre-preseason games

Football plays.

Scrimpy

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."

Scroggy

Scrooch

Scroungy

Scrounge

Scrubby

Most unkempt

Squeezing (together)

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

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

Scutter

Element 106

Element #106

Seafaring

Having or showing the skill of a practical seaman.

Quality shown by good ratings (wordplay)

Mariner's skill.

Skill of a sailor

'Tasteful saltations, perhaps (10)'

Elements of cuisine I note in shanties

Salt and pepper

""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

Seclusion

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

Stocks, treasury bonds, etc.

Valuable holdings

SECURE to make safe or certain

Deposited into a bank

Seduction

Sedulity

Seecatch

Appears to accept poetry generating good taste

What's suitable punishment for schoolboy breaking in is apparent

Propriety

Separating English and US agents participating in swindle

Aria from "Carmen."

Fast Spanish dance

""Revenue or a profit taken from the minting of coins, usually the difference between the value of the bullion used and the face value of the coin.""

Adjective (-al)

Seignory

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

Good vibrations record (wordplay)

Shocking record strikes some as grim

Is cat among horses up for the earth-shattering record (wordplay)

The science of earthquakes.

Selachian

Concert program listing

Sommelier's stock

Results of voting

SEMANTIC pertaining to {meaning=n}

Variant of semiology .

Semeiotic

Adjective (-al)

Occurring in March and September, say

Like some sales

Occurring every six months

Semibreve

Array of trucks (wordplay)

The result of making a CD (wordplay)

Half a ring (wordplay)

; ;

COLONY a settlement of emigrants in a new land

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

Round for a foursome (wordplay)

Round of four

Penultimate March Madness round

FITTED fit

Semifluid

Not-too-dressy wedding attire

More than casual

Like attire for some weddings

Semigroup

HOBOES hobo

LETHAL something designed to cause death

Half liquid; semifluid.

Semimetal

Minister-to-be

Future pastor

Embryo cleric

Schools for fathers-to-be (wordplay)

Educational institutions.

Special schools

""A member of, or one educated in, a seminary; specifically, an ecclesiastic educated for the priesthood in a seminary.""

Seminomad

NUDITY the state of being {nude=adj}

Like some gemstones

Cloudy

Stamp sold at a premium

PUBLIC people as a whole

Note house tremble

Sixteenth note

Musical note

SACRED consecrated or holy

SECRET something that is kept from the knowledge of others

Semisolid

Like Paraguay's climate

Semivowel

""Coming, or made, or done, once every half week; as, a semiweekly newspaper; a semiweekly trip. as, a semiweekly newspaper; a semiweekly trip.""

YEARLY a once a year publication

Of a Washington group.

Like US upper assembly members

Like some biennial elections

Senatorial.

Senhorita

Senility

Public scandals, for example

Superstars, for example

They are felt to be very exciting people

That which can be sensed

Sensible

SENSITISE

Prepares for a reaction when sit-ins fail to split the dioceses...

Clairvoyants

Made more aware

An agent that sensitizes.

Sensitize

Sensorium

The condition or character of one who is sensual; subjection to sensual feelings and appetite; sensuality.

Libertine

Pleasurable indulgence - sexed up element of Jane Austen work (wordplay)

""To make sensual; to subject to the love of sensual pleasure; to debase by carnal gratifications; to carnalize; as, sensualized by pleasure. as, sensualized by pleasure.""

The quality or state of being sensuous; sensuousness.

Declaring punishment for offender

Judge's job, at times

Part of some trials

Pl. sententiae (-sh - ) An adage or aphorism.

""Comprising sentences; as, a sentential translation. as, a sentential translation.""

Sentience

With feeling thrilled, one books into cathedral city

Hallmark hallmarks (wordplay)

Hallmarks of Hallmark

Pride and joy

Sentinel

Divorcing pairs get an arrangement

Confess about end of marriage, moving apart thus

Dividing

One is apart (anagram)

Freedom from marital break-up (wordplay)

With apt reason I arranged for divorce

A miser's apt to become perverse, not joining in

One who advocates secession

One who would break up a union

One advocating political autonomy

""Causing, or being to cause, separation.""

Sepiolite

""Pl. septenarii (- - ) A Latin verse used only in comedy and consisting of seven feet, especially a catalectic iambic or trochaic tetrameter.""

Like the seven-year itch (wordplay)

Like a seven year itch

Recurring every seven years

""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.

One followed by 24 zeros

25-figure figure

Septuple

Inclined to follow a leader; following; attendant.

Sequency

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

Following in a logical sequence

In consecutive order

Describing 2, 4, 6, 8, etc.

Playing in attempt to win hand

Playing to win hand

Romantic singing orchestrated in Eastern gardens

Unflustered states

Top player pocketing Arab cash is in parts

Twelve-tone music does, in common with the publishers of Dickens

Serialism

Serialist

SERIALIZE

Serialize

Serigraph

SERIGRAPH An autographic device to test the strength of raw silk.

Like some plays.

Half-and-half kind of drama

Spoke from the pulpit

Preached

He exhorts

Sermonize

Serology

""Pl. serologies The science that deals with the properties and reactions of serums, especially blood serum.""

Serosity

Appearing or blossoming later in the season than is customary with allied species.

Serotonin

Winding, twisting; mineral

Mineral; like a snake

Where Londoners go boating in Hyde Park.

Serpigo

Serration

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.

Hand cleaners at the dinner table

Roughly revise unfamiliar test items from table

These protect against spills in streets I've repaired

Servitude

""Pl. sestertia (-sh , -sh - ) A monetary unit of ancient Rome equivalent to 1,000 sesterces.""

Here the event is by no means the first

Ordinal number

Bumbling thieves net a small fraction of whole

Severity

Abstract noun (-ity)

Sexiness

Sexology

Masters or Johnson

Masters, say

One followed by 21 zeros

One thousand raised to the seventh power

1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Sextuple

Turned blue (wordplay)

Like many pop culture images

Sexualize

Babs shines (anagram)

Shadchan

Most mysterious

Adjective meaning resembling

It's not so neat having minced haggis by the loch!

Losing depth

Shamanism

Shamanist

Shammes

Cleaning mess - what's humiliating about that (wordplay)

Using bathroom product, soap on him foaming and popping at last

Impressed a sailor without his knowing!

Eastern city editor may be impressed

Coerced into crewmanship

Impresser of seamen

An arch support inserted into the shank of a shoe.