10-Letter Words Starting with S

See invertase .

""Any of a series of compounds of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen in which the atoms of the latter two elements are in the ratio of 2:1, especially those containing the group C 6 H 10 O 5 .""

China cares (anagram)

Sickly son fidgeting in each car

Overly sentimental

It's backing horse to muddle through most of the way

""A rare mineral having a velvetblack color and submetallic luster. It is a niobate of uranium, iron, and the yttrium and cerium metals.""

Bird soared and guns fired

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

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

Adjective meaning resembling

Lawyer finds a way to fix Irish rascal

Good-for-nothing

Black sheep.

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

SCREEN to provide with a concealing partition

The act or an instance of scrubbing.

Examine closely - runs cities (anagram)

Examine closely tailoring of nicer suits

Examine the tailoring of nicer suits

Look at critically or searchingly

Capable of being searched.

False clues crop up to sideline belief

Disengage from the faithful? Awful clues result

Make less ecclesiastical

Make worldly

SECURE to make safe or certain

""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.""

Array of trucks (wordplay)

The result of making a CD (wordplay)

Half a ring (wordplay)

""Causing, or being to cause, separation.""

Short religious talk

Televised words of inspiration

Short religious segment on old TV broadcasts

Winding, twisting; mineral

Mineral; like a snake

Where Londoners go boating in Hyde Park.

Adjective meaning resembling

SHRINK to contract or draw back

A kind of meteorite. See under Meteorite. Meteorite.

Swimmer's skill.

Relative of the crawl

Style of swimming

Joint team coming second (wordplay)

Meat for Olympic runners-up (wordplay)

Joint Argentine XI

Prizes for runners-up (wordplay)

Articles stashed by vacationers

This puzzle's theme

Bar to which traces are fastened.

Bar on a wagon

Lone family chart found with harness

Remove excess fat

Reduce in size

Final word of 1961: 'emerald-green'

Final word of 1961: "emerald-green"

""A green foliated kind of amphibole, observed in eclogite and some varietis of gabbro.""

Feature of an unrifled firearm

Kind of firearm.

Feature of a shotgun barrel

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

""A minute spherical crystalline body having a radiated structure, observed in some vitreous volcanic rocks, as obsidian and pearlstone.""

Like a spider.

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

English word

A placenta.

""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.""

""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.""

SPREAD to stretch over an area

Like some February days

Vernal

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

""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)

Eight-track player (wordplay)

Spring back (in fear)

Lead role in many a Western

Treasury given to retired lady in pickle

Those euros exchanged in treasury

Too sure he's in trouble at the treasury

""A shoreline, especially one marking an earlier and higher water level.""

STRATEGIZE

Make more efficient, perhaps

Reshape to make lean mister (wordplay)

Make more efficient

The land adjacent to a stream.

Is setter, we fancy, wily (wordplay)

Well adapted to urban life

Smart in a worldly sense

Change a result - it'd sound like cricket (wordplay)

Filth in America is up - it's past the time to be chirpy

Make some noise as cricket result tad surprising, India's opener caught

STRIPE to mark with distinct bands

Floor show perhaps and drinks in bar

Act that's taking off (wordplay)

1996 Demi Moore movie

Essay penned by school square, a killer

Rat poison

Bitter poison

AVERAGE to calculate the arithmetical mean value of

Somewhat cordate; somewhat like a heart in shape.

Group customs in U-boats (wordplay)

Hip-hop, for example

Division of society

""PRIMATE any of an advanced order of mammals, also PRIMATAL""

Programmer's reusable code

Part of a computer program

""SEIZURE the act of seizing, also SEISURE""

SURFACE to apply an outer layer to

Cunning plan(s)

Deception begs future involvement

Strategic trickery

Seeking to undermine

Revolutionary

Able to suffer or endure; patient.

Tacit permission.

Reluctant consent

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

A building in which sugar is made or refined; a sugar manufactory.

SULPHUR a non metallic element

Adjective meaning resembling

It's too hot!

Best season for adders (wordplay)

Adder having a stretch when it's warm

English word

English word

Starbursts (wordplay)

Star bursts

Exploding stars

See Peroxide. Peroxide.

English word

English word

Type of government.

Eurasia, in "Nineteen Eighty-Four"

Big stock market (wordplay)

Huge retail establishment

One-stop shopping spot

Providing help

Playful, keeping up with helpful intentions

Frisky about being at university, maintaining a loyal interest

Mathematics A function that is onto.

""Surplus; excess; overplus; as, surplusage of grain or goods beyond what is wanted. as, surplusage of grain or goods beyond what is wanted.""

SURVIVE to remain in existence

Noun (-ance)

Balance the proportions

Introduce regularity

SYNCRETISE

SYNCRETIZE