10-Letter Words Starting with S

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

""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

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.""

Spikenard

They slop out of buckets

Spindrift

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

Made a mess, maybe

Splashed (all over the place)

Sloshed water on.

Small fern once used medicinally

Small fern that grows in rosettes on rocks and walls

Splendid

At sea, so plunders magnificent stuff

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

Great light or luster; brilliance.

Cracked lips, tender perhaps

Broke into small, sharp pieces

Fragmented

Splotchy

Splurgy

Records spinning, said remarks thus indistinct (wordplay)

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

One who splutters.

One who won't play (wordplay)

Rewards of victory, plus drink? Misery!

Troops slip over wet blanket

Spoliator

English word

Failing prison also for godparents

Pertaining to a patron.

Sponsor

Spoofery

Spookery

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

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

Spurgall

SPURIOUS not genuine

Sputterer

Celebrate outside club, jabbering

Speaking while flurried

Fitful

Leaders with intelligence (wordplay)

They run sleepers (wordplay)

Ms Principal seeing agent's coming round

They're given to spats

Contentious ones

Formed defense groups, of a sort

Played ducks and drakes with

Frittered away

Recklessly wasted

One who squanders.

""The quality of being square; as, an instrument to try the squareness of work. as, an instrument to try the squareness of work.""

SQUARISH somewhat square

Squatter

Squawroot

Squelcher

Squelchy

More wavy and twisting

""The gentlemen, or gentry, of a country, collectively.""

Squirmy

Stored up for future use Colloq.

Stored up for future use: Colloq.

Stashed (away).

Eccentric

Squooshy

STABILIZE

Playwright's skill

Theater crew's area of expertise

Skill of old coach on ship

Staggerer

Inebriate movement beyond comprehension

Incredible male with ginger snap

Rocking and rolling

English word

Transitions between stories (wordplay)

Way to declare luggage on flights

Up-down places at school.

Shafts for flights

They handle flights and landings

Certain compartments in buildings

In a steadfast way

Resolutely.

Stalworth

Involuntarily repetitious speakers

Their speech is never straightforward

Involuntary repetitious speakers

Halting in words.

Speaking with involuntary pauses

With involuntary hesitation in speech

Cattle in a panic

STANDARD an established measure of comparison

Stannary

Starboard

Smash hit - actress is most stiff

Most like pasta and potatoes

Tops in formality

Five-pointers in the sea

Southern sailor has angles on marine creatures

Plant of primrose family

Bloomer in the primrose family

Starfruit

Night watchmen (wordplay)

Fans of the sky

They're often looking up

Having astronomical vision (wordplay)

Some late-night viewing

Working at Mt. Palomar.

Starlight

Awed by leading man's pickup?

Hollywood pickup (wordplay)

Awed by leading man's pickup (wordplay)

Cost of zero fare (wordplay)

Hunger for a bible in the depot

To save, I grant, was difficult with these

Athens tailor (AMND)

Dawn's gaunt rider

Character in A Midsummer Night's Dream

Art of government? Utter spin!

Diplomacy in, say, a ship

The art of government.

Carnival quarters (wordplay)

Private cabins on ocean liners

Private cabins or railway compartments

Still, try it on as a change!

Transformed into art, say, like a statue

Train halt has a short track still

Tradesmen start and one is in chaos!

Do they have books tall by training there

Do they work on the railways periodically (wordplay)

Files, perhaps, not changing for hearing

Materials needed for writing

End of the quip

Some garden groupings

Human or animal sculptures as collectives

""A mineral of a brown to black color occurring in prismatic crystals, often twinned so as to form groups resembling a cross. It is a silicate of aluminia and iron, and is generally found imbedded in mica schist. Called also granatite, and grenatite. granatite, and grenatite.""

Southern European larkspur; at crevasse (anagram)

Less likely to be caught

The realist contrived to be more secretive

Steamer

Steamroll

→ sidérurgiste m steel mill

Factory where fishwife feeds birds

Their 1950 production was highest in history.

Birds eat fish, and worms initially, in industrial site

Scales see 'lardy' perhaps put on stone

Scales with off-center fulcrums

Old Pittsburgh work areas

Dinosaurs with bony plates

Bony-plated dinosaurs

Dinosaurs with plates

Stemmery

Certain office workers.

STENCIL to produce by means of a perforated sheet of material

Capable of living or growing only within a limited range of temperature.

Like the Herald in wartime

Booming and resonant, it exploded

(Of voice) loud and powerful

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

Picture or diagram showing items as though in 3-D

STEREO to make a type of printing plate

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.

""STERICAL pertaining to atoms in a molecule, also STERIC""

Sterigma

Sterilant

""STERILIZE To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility.""

""One that sterilizes anything; specif., an apparatus for sterilizing equipment or an organic fluid.""

Sterilize

In stellar fashion

Sternpost

Severe ward sister's first to the rear

To back the result of a martinet matron (wordplay)

Back demanding youngsters taken into custody

""Characterized by a deep snoring, which accompaines inspiration in some diseases, especially apoplexy; hence, hoarsely breathing; snoring.""

Worked the docks

Hold hands (wordplay)

Longshoremen's bosses

Ship-to-shore figures

Woman waiting up (wordplay)

Air line employe.

She provides flying courses

Steward

Stickwork

Fellow twice taken in by patrolling sentries gets drinks

Bracers

Shrill, it mutated with TB - tragic end to pregnancy

Stillborn

Stillroom

Time in training device may be encouraging man

Stingaree

Stinkhorn

Maker of terms or conditions.

Stirabout

Wild plant with small white flowers

Two chits - right? - required for the plant

Herb as son, little chap with endless merit

STOCKPILE

Stockroom

Where many heads are put together

Abilene scene

Animal enclosures