10-Letter Words Starting with S

SAILPLANE

SAILPLANE

Sailplane

Saintship

Niters

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

Sapidity

Sapiency

Sapodilla

Sapogenin

Converted (a fat) into soap

That which saponifies; any reagent used to cause saponification.

Saponify

""Resembling sapphire; made of sapphire; having the color, or any quality of sapphire.""

""Of, producing, or resulting from putrefaction.""

Saprolite

""Any plant growing on dacayed animal or vegetable matter, as most fungi and some flowering plants with no green color, as the Indian pipe.""

Fool fools American birds

A cargo ship transported old boxes

Stone tombs

Ancient caskets in wreckage of a cargo ship

The cytoplasm of a striated muscle fiber.

Big-band section

Instruments for Getz and Parker

Some reeds

""SAXOPHONE A wind instrument of brass, containing a reed, and partaking of the qualities both of a brass instrument and of a clarinet.""

Scalloper

Scallop

One way to serve veal

Italian dish consisting of breaded and fried meat in light sauce

""Small, thinly sliced pieces of meat, especially veal, dredged in flour, sautéed, and served in a sauce.""

Running or skipping about briskly

Carol goes round van, scurrying

Like kids in a playground

Fall guys for scandals

Relatives of fall guys.

Cousins of fall guys.

Lawyer finds a way to fix Irish rascal

Good-for-nothing

Black sheep.

Scapolite

Scarper

Scepter

A certain reluctance to give credit

State one's in before one knows it

Doubt whether philosopher is Frenchman

Dog for lively king in Kent

Small, black watchdog from Belgium

Small black tailless dog of a breed with a ruff of fur round its neck

Dry fruit that splits into several one-seeded portions

Schlep

Schlump

Scollop

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

Trash some novels (wordplay)

Fight with reserves for albums

Scrappage

Most argumentative

Most quarrelsome

Rubbish heaps left out in street that's extremely messy

Work on project for film

Script of film with directions

Work that may win an Oscar

Scrimpy

""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

Conscientious to a carpenter (wordplay)

Honest or careful

*Guided by strict principles

She could find work a relief

Fates ring the Navy, stretching from pole to pole

Female artist's anxiety about line in cup

Of Praxiteles's art

With fine and regular features, son grew to assume power

Carved

Chiseled

Some Bernini creations

Carver's masterpieces

Define statutes

Sin, king, on purpose

Of or belonging to the class Scyphozoa.

Quality shown by good ratings (wordplay)

Mariner's skill.

Skill of a sailor

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

Signals at sea

Sends signals.

Semigroup

Like some gemstones

Cloudy

Stamp sold at a premium

PUBLIC people as a whole

Like Paraguay's climate

A seamstress.

Please try a new version, one at a time

Late payers settle one by one

Individually

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.""

Separator

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

Sepulcher

Purcell has developed melancholy

Hollow and deep

Purcell has composed, despite being gloomy

""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.""

Sepulchre

Sepulture

Serigraph

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

Winding, twisting; mineral

Mineral; like a snake

Where Londoners go boating in Hyde Park.

Serpigo

Sextuplet

Sextuple

Head of salon put rollers in baskets for the juniors

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

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

An arch support inserted into the shank of a shoe.

Most curve-laden

Most curvaceous

Sharecrop

Office equipment.

Office equipment

They'll give an edge for writer accommodated by flatmates

Sharpen

Honeysuckle's kin

Sheepcote

Sheepfold

Woman begins episcopate, nothing less than perfect, as if unsure of her welcome

Conformist's tee shot (wordplay)

What a stringy leg of mutton!

Knot used to shorten a rope temporarily

""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.""

Grad's grants

College goals

Diplomas, informally

Capable of resisting bombs or other shells; bombproof.

Emulated Bo-Peep

Tended sheep

Escorted

Shipboard

Comparative adjective or agent noun

A man in control of his craft (wordplay)

One i/c vessel - tramp is she, perhaps (wordplay)

Skipper

Shipowner

Some contain treasure

Such as 5 down lost 9 down

Hatteras occurrences

Skilled craftsman (wordplay)

A worker who knows his craft (wordplay)

Craftsman cracking whip's not mistaken

Protected, in a way

Resistant to violent impact

Like some timepieces

E.g. newsagent

Irish operator is such a person in trade

Little Nell's Grandfather, for example

Stole

Robber holding up store (wordplay)

One needing a fence (wordplay)

Criminal (in a retail context)

Place for a mannequin

It shows what's in store for outsiders

Where things are shown to advantage

Reese, Marion et al.

I Don't Care et al.

Miranda and Dark.

Showpiece

Theatres (wordplay)

Properties on display

Shrimpy

Adjective meaning resembling

Shunpiker

Shunpike

Parts of eyeglasses.

Went door to door (wordplay)

Struck a glancing blow

Hits, as a car.

Hits with a glancing blow

Glancing bows

Marked with roadside pointers

The quality or state of being simple; simplicity.

Dunderheads

Saps

SIMPLICIA simplex

Couldn't be easier!

Lack of affectation

Start of a quip

Made plain.

Made easier

Made easy

SIMPLE to gather medicinal plants

Makes less complex

Ignoring real complexity

Not recognising true complexity

Naive; ignoring complexities

Of or pertaining to the sinciput; being in the region of the sinciput.

Singspiel

Show me state (wordplay)

"Show me" state (wordplay)

Doubt about the truth of something

Aboard ship, girl longs for 16 11 character

Want Christmas trees covered with treats in a superficial way

Almost missed call, being captain

Acting as captain

Being leader, having to hide hesitation, prancing around

Picture on a big-city postcard, perhaps

High-rise building (wordplay)

*Chicago's Sears Tower, for one

Slapdash

Slapstick

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

Slimpsy

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

Casual attitude to trees in waste

Smallpox

Break to stretch out - such a bloomer!

St. George's bloomer (wordplay)

Photograph a monitor lizard (wordplay)

Brisk quality

SNAPPISH tending to behave in an impatient or irritable manner

Snippety

Like some tall mountains

Like a white peak

Tired about absence of throne, like some in high places (wordplay)

Snowplow

Snowscape

Rocks that contain mostly talc

Soft rocks composed of talc

Talcs

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

Flatiron parts

Solipsism

Solipsist

""The structure or build of a person, especially to the extent to which it exhibits the characteristics of an ectomorph, an endomorph, or a mesomorph.""

SONOGRAPH

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

Sopapilla

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

Long-winded speeches, for example

Sleep-inducing medicaments

Sopranino

Impervious, in a way

Kind of room

Like recording booths

Utensils used before entrees are served

Utensils from the second half

Chowder-eating aids

Grouches

Marching-band instrument

March king's namesake, in a way

Relative of a helicon

Spaceband

Room for skill with shuttle, perhaps

*Mars Pathfinder, for one

Discoverer, for one.

Milieu for astronauts.

Places to go out to launch

Sci-fi crafts

Sci-fi staples

Modern transportation

Certain tethered strolls

SPACIOUS ample in extent

Spadework

Spaghetti

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

Characteristic of desert vegetation

Boondocks quality

Boondocks feature

Sparsity

Sparteine

A state of spasm.

See Spatulate. Spatulate.

""SPATIAL pertaining to space, also SPACIAL""