10-Letter Words Starting with S

Rigour

Rigor

Hastening time makes train stop at nothing

Defective grindstone gradually getting faster

One's racehorses finish with nothing; need order to go faster!

""An habitual sudden twitching of the hinder leg of a horse, or an involuntary or convulsive contraction of the muscles that raise the hock.""

Stringy

Stringing

Lingo almost unrecognisable in accent, unable to tie anything up (wordplay)

Youths multiplying within seconds

Fish cut into narrow pieces for youngsters

Heather undresses without seeing the youths

A gas-filled cathode-ray tube that produces bright flashes of light for a stroboscope.

Keep firm grip

Defensive position taken by a wrestler

Fastness of dogs left North exhausted

Strongyle

Strontium

Strouding

Fighting

Essay penned by school square, a killer

Rat poison

Bitter poison

With unbending will

Lack of fresh air; narrow-mindedness

Overindulge one's head in pedantry

Narrow-mindedness; lack of fresh air

With knockout effect

Superhero who flips out (wordplay)

Bonsai gardener's other job (wordplay)

She's a daredevil in movies

Some action film employees

Stupefy

Amazing send-up, to us transforming

Adman's adjective

Staggering the imagination.

""STUPID a dull, foolish person""

Strength, solidity

Unyielding spirit.

Strength of support arranged inside unopened truss

S-speaking, tense inside (wordplay)

Talking, by the way, of bumbling!

Speaking with initial difficulty

Officers change name in requirement for membership

CABINET a piece of furniture with shelves and drawers

CEILING the overhead lining of a room

Subcenter

Under the center.

""Situated under the clavicle, or collar bone; as, the subclavian arteries. as, the subclavian arteries.""

Subcool

Low-ranking clergy officials

Subduct

The act of subducting or taking away.

ECONOMY {thrift=n}

Working on newspaper and fitting sleep in

Subentry

Suberise

Suberize

Subgenus

Sonar datum (wordplay)

Subindex

Subindex

Located beneath or below; underlying.

Subject

Buccaneering

Subjoin

""One of the several primary divisions of either the animal, or vegetable kingdom, as, in zo\'94logy, the Vertebrata, Tunicata, Mollusca, Articulata, Molluscoidea, Echinodermata, C\'d2lentera, and the Protozoa; in botany, the Phanerogamia, and the Cryptogamia.""

Sublation

Sublease

Sublet

""LICENSE to issue or grant authoritative permission to, also LICENCE""

Kind of TV ad technique

Below the conscious level

Like underhanded advertising

""Situated under the tongue; as, the sublingual gland. as, the sublingual gland.""

Deputy grabbed by Tuareg, an ambush backfired

""SUBMARINE Being, acting, or growing, under water in the sea; as, submarine navigators; submarine plants. as, submarine navigators; submarine plants.""

Member of the U.S.N.

Member of the navy

One's business is taking a dive

Quartet in Battleships puzzles

Products of Holland's imagination

Sea Wolf and Nautilus.

""The sixth tone of the scale; the under mediant, or third below the keynote; the superdominant.""

Submerge

Submerse

Action of putting under water

Maneuver for the Nautilus

MINIMAL an element of a mathematical set that precedes all others

U-boat assignment (wordplay)

Oceanaut's journey (wordplay)

Undersea job (wordplay)

Submit

NETWORK to form a structure like a net

NUCLEAR pertaining to a {nucleus=n}

OCEANIC pertaining to the ocean

Subpena

Summoned as a witness

POTENCY the quality of being potent

Subregion

""The act of obtaining a favor by surprise, or by unfair representation through suppression or fraudulent concealment of facts.""

Programmer's reusable code

Part of a computer program

SCIENCE knowledge obtained by observation and experiment

SECTION to divide into distinct parts

SEGMENT to divide into sections

Succeeding

Later

Subserve

Sinking of land, maybe due to mining

Settling loans, I get spoken of as thick

Settling down with advance team, getting directions to capture castle, initially

Loans 'is temporary accommodation? Managing to survive!

Inherent

Subsist

Subsoil

Drugs (illegal)

Elements, for example

Holding uniform, tailor scans best materials

Branch office, perhaps

Post office branch, perhaps

Delicatessen (wordplay)

""TENANCY the temporary occupancy of something that belongs to another, also TENANTRY""

Subtenant

Subtend

An extracellular enzyme produced by certain strains of a soil bacterium (Bacillus amyloliquefaciens) that catalyzes the breakdown of proteins into polypeptides and resembles trypsin in its action.

Subtitle

Quality of making fine distinctions

It's taken away from rough brute's hand

The act of coming under.

Subject of current controversy.

Design of a navy vessel with different features (wordplay)

Undermining

Overthrowing

Pl. succedanea (-n - ) A substitute.

Winning, or following (wordplay)

Line of people coming after one another

I did it for one broadcast and then another and another!

Its no failure to find charged item in chain

Succinate

Succinct

Without wasting a word

To the point

(Expressed) clearly and briefly

Succour

Tasty juiciness

Juiciness

Fleshy-leaved plants

Succumb

Succuss

Suchness

Suction

Suctorian

SUDDEN an occurrence without warning

Tacit permission.

Reluctant consent

Offer it up perhaps to put up with political party in Africa contacting Spain

Ordeals of following lines in petition on phones

Enough of 16 down (wordplay)

Enough, adequate

Similar to 16 down - is that enough (wordplay)

Sufflate

Suffragan

Suffusion

Sugarcane

Alluding to

Receptacle seen outside of HR offices

Guessing to uncover clue

Idea put forward for consideration

SULFONATE

Sulfonate

Sulfonium

Change of lens unless needed for moody feeling

Sulphate

Sulphur

Brunei and others

Brunei and Oman, for example

The quality or state of being sultry.

Compilations

Aggregates.

Lasting three hot months

SUMMON to order to appear

Summons

People often in the 80's

Prone forms on beaches.

Those getting a tan

Cruise activity by the pool

Soaking up some rays

Using dishwashing liquid in the shower (wordplay)

Face-shading headwear

Ladies' headwear

Headgear

Sunburn

Drinks now mixed in sections

Drifters, down under

August attire

Summer attire

Symbols of happiness, to Van Gogh

Repeated bloomers by Van Gogh

Van Gogh still-life series

Wildebeest put up with girls in shades!

They reduce glare

Aids to anonymity for celebrated girls

Many-windowed places

Lifeguards wear them

Lifeguards slather them on

Protective lotions

Sunseeker

Sunstroke

English word

Superbank

SUPERB of excellent quality

English word

Superfund

Supergene

Very large star

Betelgeuse, for example

Heavenly monster

Beyond a normal person's power

One with powers over the rest of us

He has power over the rest of us

SUPERLIE to lie above

Celestial; heavenly

Present participle or gerund

Supermind

Supermini

SUPERNAL pertaining to the sky

Starbursts (wordplay)

Star bursts

Exploding stars

Fireworks in the sky make Penny nervous, excited - even gassy

English word

Very fast - 11 (anagram)

Boom-causing, perhaps

*Anthropocentric jet type (wordplay)

Inspector cunningly concealing university second degree in music

SUPERVENE To come as something additional or extraneous; to occur with reference or relation to something else; to happen upon or after something else; to be added; to take place; to happen.

Follows

Extremely able female

Alter ego of Kristin Wells

Gifted female.

""A woman who performs all the duties typically associated with several different full-time roles, such as wage earner, graduate student, mother, and wife.""

Supinate

""The act of turning the hand palm upward; also, position of the hand with the palm upward.""

Supinator

SUPINE a Latin verbal noun

Supplant

One who supplants.

Add to (something)

Flexible workers start to teach addition

Add to time given to flexible workforce

Flexibility

SUPPLE to make {pliant=adj}

In earnest, praying for special pun to be concocted

One coming in ousts beggars

Praying insect (wordplay)

Praying insect?

One petitions to paint, sculp, design

Fair as player, holding up pro

and 26: Those apart from leads trip up with songs and act poorly

""Situated above, or anterior to, the kidneys.""

Surcease

Surcingle

Sureness

Surfacing

Tension reducer

Surfeit

Mathematics A function that is onto.

Overcame (an obstacle)

Overcame

Being better than

Surprint

Mildly astonishing

Causing astonishment

Small rebellion keeps Republican staggering

Surprize

Gives up with rerun, dress needing adjustment

Gives in

Dour nurse working for department is besieged by her enemies

Encircled

Surveying

Noun (-ance)

Believing guilty without proof

Narrow passage of water

Garters, to Brits

Larry King trademark

Uncle Sam's braces

Confused puss dying by being hanged, perhaps

Swinging time for shaggy cat before closing

Putting off carrying out capital punishment

Suspenser