10-Letter Words Starting with S

Leave of absence.

Period of leave for university teacher

John Barth's leave

Wrecking boat, gang is wicked

Secretly ruining

Drunkard entertains sailor with a gin to force wrecking

English word

English word

Furnished with little sacs.

Lead actors dressed for the priesthood (wordplay)

Unusual actors' deal concerning priesthood

Like a priest's attire, making a lot scared unfortunately

Sackcloth

Baptism, matrimony, etc.

Are such scars meant to make for a graceful state (wordplay)

Sacristan

Church storage areas

Co-stars can (anagram)

Fresh carcass not inviolable

Across solution can't possibly be immune

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

Safelight

Sagacity

SAGITTAL resembling an arrow

SAILBOAT a boat with sails

Sailcloth

Sainthood

Saintly

Saintship

The quality or condition of being salable; salableness.

Salacity

A salt of salicylic acid.

Salinity

Showing anticipation, in a way

Licking one's chops

Anticipatory reaction

Mouth-watering mixture of oils in a vat

Mouth-watering violins at a jig

Pavlovian response

Salivator

Salometer

Lively Italian dance with a hop step

Around devotional feature promote love for dance

Advancements by leaps and bounds

Saltbush

Small table dish

Diner's sprinkler

Part of a table setting

Saltness

Niters

Condiment holder on the table (2 words)

It's turned upside down when used

Half a dinner table duo

SALUTE to greet with a sign of respect

Start of a formal letter

It may be strange to us, a Latin greeting

Victoria, say, welcoming almost everyone with posh greeting

Opening address

Salvation

Some people of old Palestine

Helpers disguised as Martians

They're good people

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

Our stamina is restored here

US animator rebuilt health farm

Hospital is on trauma scramble

Sanbenito

Consecrated

Being converted, dies in fact as a saint (wordplay)

Holy.

""One who sanctifies, or makes holy; specifically, the Holy Spirit.""

Sanctify

Affected holiness my canonist corrected

Pretended piety.

Pious hypocrisy

Permitted or penalized

Imposed punishment of a kind that's permitted

Permissible

Sanctity

Removes paint, in a way

Scours Sweden and Belgium to meet foot models

Kid who plays neighborhood baseball

Quartzite and such

Grayish-brown hues

Some countertop materials

Desert dustups (wordplay)

Desert blow-ups

Desert hazards.

The quality of being sanguine; sanguineness.

""Of or pertaining to health, or the laws of health; sanitary.""

Sanitary

Of or relating to health or the protection of health.

Is in trauma being treated in hospital

Institution to improve one's health [1938]

Sanitate

Sewers, say, an island put in place

The plumbing degenerates into a stain

Drainage and sewage disposal

Sanitise

Sanitize

English word

Santolina

Sapidity

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.""

Juneberries

All that a bag can hold

All a bag can hold

Hungary and Bulgaria to the U.S.S.R.

Moon and Telstar

Cold war propaganda weapons.

Satiation

Satinwood

Making fun of giant, sir, is silly

Lampooning

Fulfilling (a need)

Meeting (a condition)

Meeting (needs, etc)

Firefighters' activity

So a king is altogether getting to be like this

After the start of Saturday a metal G is never drying

State of total dampness

Capacity limit

Full state (first 5 + last 1; also, a literal outer planet!)

Saturator

Period of revelry

Exotic Australian festival

Ancient Roman December festival

Saturniid

Saturnism

Passive resistance, to Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi's policy of passive resistance to British rule

Norwegian group supports gay star active in non-violent resistance

Plural or third person singular

Is astir, say, unbridled in lust

Day younger goddess admits a rampant desire

Uncontrollable desire as I stray dreadfully in current state

Sauceboat

*Part of a Reuben masterpiece (wordplay)

German dish of chopped pickled cabbage

Wiener add-on option

They're in no hurry

Moving slowly

Savoury

Sawtimber

Saxitoxin

Quality condition of being scanty.

Certain timbers.

Throws around axe, starting to topple small beams

Fall guys for scandals

Relatives of fall guys.

Cousins of fall guys.

Scapolite

Shortages damage urban areas

Shortages briefly alarm conurbations

Wound reminder + urban areas

Mark on tongue seen before a fever

Injure tongue with a complaint

Disease is to disfigure Roman Adonis, initially

SCATHE to criticize severely

In a bitterly severe way

Alligator or snake? (Hint: Read letters 4-8 last!)

Rough, entertaining article using bitter remarks

Strewers

With which to shoot gnu (wordplay)

Firearm with an unfocused shot

Distribute piece that's a bit haphazard

Throwing in various directions

Tedder's chore

Small number

Screenwriters from Tehran (wordplay)

Writers in Hollywood.

Screenplay writers

Scepter

A certain reluctance to give credit

State one's in before one knows it

Doubt whether philosopher is Frenchman

Scheelite

Plans for circulating catechisms

Plans redraft of catechisms

Circuit diagrams

Combination of the aspects of heavenly bodies.

To form a scheme or schemes.

Causing division in the RC Church

Favouring separation from a church

Singular elegance about theory volunteers rejected being fractious (wordplay)

Schizzy

Schmaltz

Some breaded cutlets

Veal cutlets

Head's unwelcome visitors after school: without enthusiasm, one leaves cutlets

Relating to education

Pedant and stoic clash violently

Clash with stoic could be academic

Commentators, muddled as Holst (sic)

Medieval glossographers lash stoics indiscriminately

He's too calm, maybe, for a young peer

Bus-seat sharer, perhaps

Dolphin's friend (wordplay)

English word

Of physics or biology perhaps

Part of UNESCO.

Methodical but not artistic presumably

Scientism

Insects sit (anagram)

Eg, physicists, biologists

Many Nobel Prize winners

SCIENTIZE

Scientize

Slightest bits

Slightest traces

Minute particles

Flashes.

Traces

Showing only surface knowledge.

Scleroma

SCLEROTIA

Sclerotic

Sclerotin

""A hardened body formed by certain fungi, as by the Claviceps purpurea, which produced ergot. Claviceps purpurea, which produced ergot.""

Scolecite

English word

Scouther

Most rough, as cliffs

Roughest

Most argumentative

Most quarrelsome

Rubbish heaps left out in street that's extremely messy

DJs, at times

Scratchy

SCRATCHIE

Companion of beat juggling

Tearing with the nails

Purpose of a pet post

Scrawly

Most waif-like, as a runway model

Most undernourished, unprepared to bite into dodgy insects

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

Scroggy

Scrootch

Scrootch

Scrubby

Most unkempt

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

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

""The quality or state of being scurrile or scurrilous; mean, vile, or obscene jocularity.""

Scutcheon

SCUTELLA scutellum

Scutter

Singer's employer (wordplay)

Betsy Ross, for example

Dorcas, for example

Seastrand

Hidden atomic particles (wordplay)

Discharges

Members of religious factions

Those insects got the second artisan beaten

Modular parlor pieces

The eccentric got in, since causing division

""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.

Act of acquiring.

Stocks, treasury bonds, etc.

Valuable holdings

SECURE to make safe or certain

Laid-back quality

Tranquility

Dignity.

Deposited into a bank

The act of seducing.

Seduction

She may have dresses cut beguilingly

Woman who leads astray

Salome, for example

Sedulity

Seecatch

Seedeater

One coming from East Germany strangely in pieces

Separating English and US agents participating in swindle

Segregant

Thus kept a part as one

Gets agreed damages set aside

Gets agreed alternative set aside

Sets apart

""SEISMIC pertaining to an earthquake, also SEISMAL""

SELECTA a disc jockey

Concert program listing

Sommelier's stock

Results of voting

Discrimination

SEMANTIC pertaining to {meaning=n}

Semeiotic

Adjective (-al)

Rather arid region

Area of limited growth

Habitat for some scorpions

FITTED fit

LETHAL something designed to cause death

Semimetal

""A member of, or one educated in, a seminary; specifically, an ecclesiastic educated for the priesthood in a seminary.""

NUDITY the state of being {nude=adj}

Stamp sold at a premium