10-Letter Words Starting with S

Wild expanse

Bushfire locales

A woman hired to clean.

A woman hired to clean.

Most unkempt

SCRUMMAGE See Scrimmage. Scrimmage.

Scrummage

Squeezing (together)

Conscientious to a carpenter (wordplay)

Honest or careful

*Guided by strict principles

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

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

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

Singer's employer (wordplay)

Betsy Ross, for example

Dorcas, for example

Capable of being searched.

Impossible to be searched; inscrutable; impenetrable.

Seastrand

Seborrhea

""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.""

Hidden atomic particles (wordplay)

Discharges

Members of religious factions

Those insects got the second artisan beaten

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

Act of acquiring.

The condition or quality of being secure; exemption from fear; want of vigilance; security.

Stocks, treasury bonds, etc.

Valuable holdings

SECURE to make safe or certain

She may have dresses cut beguilingly

Woman who leads astray

Salome, for example

Seedeater

Fortune teller's lollipop (wordplay)

Someone looking a fool at the draper's

Cloth that's small for top of beer mug

One coming from East Germany strangely in pieces

Segregant

Thus kept a part as one

Gets agreed damages set aside

Gets agreed alternative set aside

Sets apart

""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

Good vibrations record (wordplay)

Shocking record strikes some as grim

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

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

Signals at sea

Sends signals.

Adjective (-al)

Semibreve

Array of trucks (wordplay)

The result of making a CD (wordplay)

Half a ring (wordplay)

Rather arid region

Area of limited growth

Habitat for some scorpions

DRYING the act of drying

Semidwarf

Not-too-dressy wedding attire

More than casual

Like attire for some weddings

Semigroup

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.""

Note house tremble

Sixteenth note

Musical note

SACRED consecrated or holy

SECRET something that is kept from the knowledge of others

Like Paraguay's climate

YEARLY a once a year publication

A seamstress.

Of a Washington group.

Like US upper assembly members

Like some biennial elections

Senatorial.

Senhorita

An agent that sensitizes.

Sensorium

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

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

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

Sequencer

Withdraws into solitude.

Isolates, hides away

Sets apart

""A portion of dead bone which becomes separated from the sound portion, as in necrosis.""

Mariachis, for example

Wooers, perhaps

Singers under balconies

Playing in attempt to win hand

Playing to win hand

Romantic singing orchestrated in Eastern gardens

Quality of a Monegasque monarch, per title

Tranquillity

Tranquility

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

Short religious talk

Televised words of inspiration

Short religious segment on old TV broadcasts

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

A relay apparatus;

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

Cuts.

Austerity

Severity

Sforzando

Head of salon put rollers in baskets for the juniors

Impresser of seamen

Sharecrop

Shareware

Smooth fabrics

Office equipment.

Office equipment

They'll give an edge for writer accommodated by flatmates

Sharpen

Revised 'the ratings' (wordplay)

Revised "the ratings" (wordplay)

Breaking up the ratings going berserk

Shearling

Petrel's cousin

Cropper takes Tyler for a seabird

Long-winged bird that skims the ocean

Honeysuckle's kin

Sheldrake

Capable of resisting bombs or other shells; bombproof.

Shellwork

Shelterer

Giving refuge to.

Giving protection to

Protecting

Emulated Bo-Peep

Tended sheep

Escorted

""SHERIFF a law-enforcement officer of a county, also SHIREMAN, SHIRRA""

Shewbread

Shikar

With a flickery glow

Shinnery

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

A dress tailored like a shirt with a collar and buttons down the front. Also called shirtwaist .

English word

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Short additions to newspaper articles.

American word for a woman's blouse

""SHMALTZ excessive sentimentality, also SCHMALTZ, SCHMALZ""

Protected, in a way

Resistant to violent impact

Like some timepieces

Squeezed (into)

Dekker's holiday? Cobblers

Proverbially, those too busy to provide their kids with footwear

Cheaply produced lace (wordplay)

Small sum of money Slang.

Minimal amount of money

E.g. newsagent

Irish operator is such a person in trade

Little Nell's Grandfather, for example

Robber holding up store (wordplay)

One needing a fence (wordplay)

Criminal (in a retail context)

Shorebird

Land situated on the edge of a body of water.

Places where land meets sea

Land edges

Lapping locales

Shoreward

Bobby's favorite snack (wordplay)

Rich crumbly biscuit

Lorna Doone makeup

Items in a pastry shop

Strawberry or peach concoctions

Desserts often served with strawberries

Hem fixers, at times

Cutting down fat

Reducing fat used for cooking

Pie baker's need

Not enough money for most of the briefs and slips

Deficiencies

Shorthair

Shorthand

Neat bugles (wordplay)

Rosters for finalists

Rivals' venues

Groups of hopefuls making provisions for minor shopping sprees (wordplay)

Reese, Marion et al.

I Don't Care et al.

Miranda and Dark.

Shortwave

SHOTGUN to shoot with a type of gun

Took on (a burden)

Took, as with a burden

Shoveller

Showbread

Perforated part of a bathroom fitting

Certain water dispenser

Bathtub fixture

Rainless; freo from showers.

Group of apes

Clever business sense

Yankee trait.

SHREWISH ill-tempered

Shrieky

Office of a sheriff

Piercing quality (of sound)

Shrimpy

Adjective meaning resembling

SHRINK to contract or draw back

Shrinkage

SHRIVEL to contract into wrinkles

I have two lines in small part as an old man (wordplay)