10-Letter Words Starting with S

Strewing about in little drops

Splashing

Asparagus tips? They're in the van!

The points of savage attacks

Leads attack as hare sped off

Plants used for flavoring.

Herbs used for flavouring chewing gum

Spearwort

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

Speciate

Evolutionary process

Belief in human supremacy

Bias favoring humans over every other animal

Specifier

Clearly identifying

The quality or state of being specious; speciousness.

""SPECIOUS plausible, but inaccurate""

Marked beast, much loved, taken round Britain on display

Sights for sore eyes (wordplay)

De Mille specialties

Eyewear for Grandpa

Watching

They watch sport etc. as a change

People on the sidelines.

People looking on as Prescott dances

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

Fast craft

Hydroplanes.

Haste

Rapidity

Speedster

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

Waxy substance from whales

Oily stuff: it's about to keep hairdo wonderful

Once-valuable substance harvested from certain whales' heads

Spermary

SPERMATIA

Spermatid

One of the motionless spermatozoids in the conceptacles of certain fungi.

Team swallowing one short, misguided empiric's contraceptive

""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

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

Spidery

Like a spider.

Intricate designs in nature

""An American endogenous plant (Tradescantia Virginica), with long linear leaves and ephemeral blue flowers. The name is sometimes extended to other species of the same genus. Tradescantia Virginica), with long linear leaves and ephemeral blue flowers. The name is sometimes extended to other species of the same genus.""

""Spiffier , spiffiest Smart in appearance or dress; stylish.""

Spikenard

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

Spindrift

Spinifex

Bellies out for sale, by the sound of them

Sails.

Spinneret

Yarn mills

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

Of or pertaining to a spiracle.

Spiral

In a lively manner

Spiritism

Spiritist

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.

""Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure.""

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

Spirogyra

One discovers how much inspiration there has been

The measurement of lung capacity

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

Like the greatest show on earth (wordplay)

Made a mess, maybe

Splashed (all over the place)

Sloshed water on.

Spleeny

Small fern once used medicinally

Small fern that grows in rosettes on rocks and walls

Splendid

Magnificently

Having no children, bestow identity on couple from Lyon with much magnificence

At sea, so plunders magnificent stuff

Fork out about fifty on excursions with no time for such wonders

Great light or luster; brilliance.

Splenetic

Spleuchan

Cracked lips, tender perhaps

Broke into small, sharp pieces

Fragmented

Splotchy

Splotch

Splurgy

Records spinning, said remarks thus indistinct (wordplay)

Struggled to get words out when rushed to grasp line, say

One who splutters.

Spodumene

One who won't play (wordplay)

Rewards of victory, plus drink? Misery!

Troops slip over wet blanket

Plane for shaping curved surfaces

Tool said to have succeeded getting in

Tool said to cut closely

Spoliate

Plundering

If one ails, this potion may be the ruination of one

Spoliator

English word

Resilience.

Ability to absorb liquids comes from various openings in middle of tissue

Failing prison also for godparents

Pertaining to a patron.

Sponsor

Spoofery

Spookery

Haunted house atomosphere.

Pet notes for fliers

Ibis relatives

Kiss-and-cuddle accounts are for the birds

Hated the book, perhaps

Belly jeans, for example (wordplay)

Blushing crow, perhaps

SPORANGIA

""A spore case in the cryptogamous plants, as in ferns, etc.""

SPORICIDE

Sporicide

Sporocarp

Sporocyst

Biology ()

English word

""Reproduction by multiple fission of a spore or zygote, characteristic of many sporozoans. Sporogony results in the production of sporozoites.""

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.""

Sporozoan

""In certain Sporozoa, a small active, usually elongate, sickle-shaped or somewhat am\'d2boid spore, esp. one of those produced by division of the passive spores into which the zygote divides. The sporozoites reproduce asexually.""

SPORTFUL {playful=adj}

""Sportier , sportiest Appropriate for sport or participation in sports.""

In sport; sportively.

In fun

Football on TV, say

Warner Wolf specialty

Prime-time fare

Strip for action!

Tracksuit perhaps fits uphill runner

Exhibits flower with spikes, say

SPORULATE

Sporulate

SPOTLESS {clean=adj}

Focuses on insults about belly

Stage illuminators

Strong beams

Feature of bad cell-phone reception

Uncertainty

Irregularity

Spraddle

Sprattle

Sprawly

SPREAD to stretch over an area

Spriggy

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

Springald

Seasonal hamper expressly for rugby team

Small gazelles

Graceful gazelles

Springe

A fountain or source.

Elastic persisting, most flexible

Leaps and bounds

Like some February days

Vernal

Primitive jumping insect

Tiny, jumpy insect

Small 18 ac

Dregs in pit (anagram)

Skip and diet perhaps early in the year

It occurs at new and full moon

Season well with herb, say

The highlight of a leap year (wordplay)

Name invoking fascism

""Young, usually soft wood that lies directly beneath the bark and develops in early spring.""

High level fire fighters (wordplay)

Kids might run through them

Lawn gear.

Occasionally super idea shows dash

Cast about to dress up and dash

A little shy around groom

Spritsail

Smart quality.

Spryness

Past tense or past participle

Spirit of revolutionary beasts? Extremely serious!

Spurgall

SPURIOUS not genuine

Sputterer

Celebrate outside club, jabbering

Speaking while flurried

Fitful

*Hand-held telescopes

Crow's-nest instruments

Crow's-nest telescopes

Leaders with intelligence (wordplay)

They run sleepers (wordplay)

Ms Principal seeing agent's coming round

English word

Cattle in a panic

Surging like stallions

Start to put your foot down to be getting away with it

Standpipe

Attitude (towards an issue)

Attitude towards a particular issue

Position on a subject.

A barometer for recording small variations in atmospheric pressure.

Vessels with funnels

Some commercial vessels

Veronica, the cup-bearer

Getting a higher grade, in a way

New blade flipped in deception's getting sharper

Having poor ecological adaptability

STENOTYPE

Phonogram recorders

Rough playtimes involving female relatives

Those inherited after a break-up in my past life

Faux pa (wordplay)

Onassis to Caroline Kennedy

Mother's new husband

Domestic climbing aid

Decorator's platform

Ceiling painter's need

Non-blood relation

A relation by marriage

Stereotypically wicked member of 3

Mike Brady, for one

Pater's new woman? Pater spent freely!

Cinderella's nemesis, for example

Fairy tale meanie

Fairy tale meany

One of Cinderella's taunters

STEREO to make a type of printing plate

Three-dimensional vision

Eight-track player (wordplay)

Spring back (in fear)

Lead role in many a Western

The art or process of making stereotype plates.

Sternpost

Required platitudes to be inventive!

Details put out as specified

Specified as a condition

Specifies

Maker of terms or conditions.

Put away in reserve

Put away for a rainy day

Spoilt deck shuffled and put in store

STOCKPILE

Reserves farm animals on lots

Stores for future use

Reserve stores.