10-Letter Words Starting with S

Slather

(Of a woman) dirty and untidy

They're killingly funny in the ship

Dispatches produce merriment on board

The giggles of the South are enough to kill them

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

Sleazebag

Base man (wordplay)

Contemptible sort, in slang

Despicable sort

Quality of being sleazy.

Making smooth

Common drug side effect

Sandman's gift.

Tired state

Weekend night events, usually

Some kids' parties

Pajama parties

Is out and about (wordplay)

Emulates Lady Macbeth

Somnambulates.

One nodding off (2 words)

Yawning child (wordplay)

Slacker ground he'd ply with ease

Un-armed (wordplay)

Like certain dresses.

Type of sweater.

Sleevelet

Most tenuous.

Most willowy

Remove excess fat

Reduce in size

Slickrock

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

Odious ones

Slimness

Slimpsy

Armed weapons (wordplay)

Hurl some bar orders (wordplay)

Fling some whiskey (wordplay)

""Slinkier , slinkiest Stealthy, furtive, and sneaking.""

They're fitted for furniture

Upholsterer's project

They may be on your chairs

Slipform

Slippery

Lams priest (anagram)

Wake up at the back (wordplay)

Air driven back by a propeller

Moving like a mamba

Slivovic

Slobberer

Slobber

Campaign-placard writers

SLOGANIZE

Sloganize

Casual attitude to trees in waste

SLOTHFUL {sluggish=adj}

Slouchy

Sloughy

Slovenly

Slowness

Slubber

SLUGGARD a habitually lazy person

Without vigor

Sluiceway

They're in the arms of Morpheus

Out like a light

Being inattentive, leaving junk in grass

Sawing logs, so to speak

Inviting slumber; soporiferous.

Slungshot

Partially melted snow or ice.

SLUTTISH {slovenly=adj}

English word

Smallpox

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

Very, very well

Smeltery

Like some fires

Like the eyes of a Casanova

Society decayed and harboured bad emotions

SNAPPISH tending to behave in an impatient or irritable manner

SNEAKING sneak

SNIFFISH {haughty=adj}

Snivel

SNOBBISH characteristic of a snob

They're hooked up to breathing tubes

SNORKEL a mouthpiece used by an underwater swimmer

Got out of hand

Got out of control

Expanded rapidly.

Successor to the shovel.

Winter road machine

Blizzard cleanup machine

Snowfield

Breakfast cereal for skiers (wordplay)

They come down to Earth

2001 Toni Braxton Christmas album

Vehicle with skilike runners

Vehicle with runners

Sleigh for today's grandma

Snowplow

Snowslide

Snuffly

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}

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

Associations or brotherhoods

Orders from FA reduced international matches

SOFTBALL a type of ball

Softshell

Comfort to one in grief

Solarise

Solarize

Soldiery

Soldier

Solecise

Unschooled

Solecize

Dignified

Solemnize

Gravity

Soleness

Of a conductor

Flatiron parts

Solfatara

Solfeggio

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

SOLIDARE a small coin

SOLIDARE a small coin

Team spirit is adroitly created

Part one of a Labour anthem

Mutual support within a group

Went hard

Solidify

Solidity

Solipsism

Solipsist

Diamond settings

Some diamonds

Rings.

Thus illuminated sign for people living alone

Separately, singly

Solonchak

Solonets

Solonetz

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

Of or pertaining to a solstice.

SOLUBILISE

""The quality, condition, or degree of being soluble or solvable; as, the solubility of a salt; the solubility of a problem or intricate difficulty. as, the solubility of a salt; the solubility of a problem or intricate difficulty.""

SOLUBILIZE

Solvation

Solvency

Plural or third person singular

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

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

The dictrine or the science of the general properties of material substances; somatics.

Turnover from two seasons, say

Gymnast's specialty, perhaps

Gymnast's specialty

Port authorities (wordplay)

Wine service managers

Wine stewards

Dropping off lemon scone that's cooked

Sleepiness comes on Len unexpectedly

Drowsiness.

SONGLESS without songs

In ringing fashion

In a soothing manner.

""A crisp, puffy, deep-fried pastry often served with honey or syrup.""

Sopapilla

Sortilege

In a soulless manner.

Musical impersonator at MoMA (wordplay)

What homonyms do

SOUNDING the action of determining depth of water

SOURCE to originate from

Southland

Souvlakia

Sowbelly

Certain tethered strolls

SPACIOUS ample in extent

SPALLE the shoulder

SPANCEL to bind with a rope

Spancel

Spangly

Sparkly

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V-8's octet

They fire the spirit of motorists

See Spatulate. Spatulate.

""SPATIAL pertaining to space, also SPACIAL""

Special

Train in a particular area requiring less pace, one twice derailed

Concentrate on expertise in unique island with endless sunshine finally

Strong subject

Circling island, misplaces cultivated field

Place-kicker, for example

Cracking pace is set by heel, an expert

Expert of a sort

Expert's skill or interest

Particular work to be done in a field

Person's particular skill

Work in a limited field.

Major in

""SPECIOUS plausible, but inaccurate""

Marked beast, much loved, taken round Britain on display

Sights for sore eyes (wordplay)

De Mille specialties

Eyewear for Grandpa

In the form or manner of a specter.

SPECULAR relating to a speculum

Put one's thinking cap on

Took risks

Considered options, then played the market

Theorises; takes financial risks

Conjectures

Guesses

Risky market trader, ponderous type

Second embezzler is better

Adirondack ski center.

Unable to say anything

Dumbfounded, say

Dumbfounded (wordplay)

Speedball

Plants make water to live on board

Hurry to small city to see flowering plants

Science of cave exploring

Study of caves

Scientific study of caves

Entrances

B..O..U..N..D (wordplay)

Give the letters a leap - how enchanted!

Absorbed by B-O-U-N-D, perhaps

Cave men, of sorts

Cave men of today.

Underground hobby (wordplay)

Tell about gym bumbler exploring caves

Exploration of caves as a hobby

SPERMATIA

""An arsenide of platinum occuring in grains and minute isometric crystals of tinwhite color. It is found near Sudbury, Ontario Canada, and is the only known compound of platinum occuring in nature.""

Mineral lets delicate little person keep healthy

Sphenoid.

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.""

Inscrutable

Inscrutable

Enigmatic

Like a spider.

Game, also called jackstraws

Game without kids (in bed?) is engaging relations

Rejected fielders admit enjoyin' the game

They slop out of buckets

Most long, thin and frail-looking

Tell tales about duke on starter of tempura being least fat

Unsteadily slips with entry - like an old maid (wordplay)

Of or pertaining to a spiracle.

Spiral

In a lively manner

The universe of Blackmore and Vidal

Not at all lively without fire-water

'Medium' hopefully not so droopy

'Go Down, Moses' and others

Mahalia Jackson forte

Songs of a sort.

With malice aforethought

That's with Ma, lice

With malice

""Any of various leaping, homopterous insects of the family Cercopidae, the nymphs of which form frothy masses of liquid on plant stems. Also called froghopper , spittle insect .""

Of or pertaining to the viscera; visceral.

A drop in the ocean

Flight ending for some

Certain Apollo landing