10-Letter Words Starting with S

Feature of an unrifled firearm

Kind of firearm.

Feature of a shotgun barrel

Eliminated rough edges

Quality or state of being smooth.

More than just doting on

Stifling Mama's kept in Carol

Concealing and disguising things more

Smutchy

A bit of blue as sunset mist dispersed

Mild indecency

*Hazards for herpetologists

Some require an antidote

Drinks made from cider and Harp lager

Snakeroot

Snatchy

Snippety

Hoity-toity attitude

SNOTTIE a midshipman

Deposits frozen in banks

Winter storm occurrences ... and a hint to the theme of this puzzle

Currently meaning to board ship, they pile up after a heavy fall

Winter effects (wordplay)

Small present wife returns, about to end in acrimonious, bitter blows

Snuffly

Rocks that contain mostly talc

Soft rocks composed of talc

Talcs

Sobriety

Criminal robs quite special handles

Fanciful names.

Nicknames.

Britain's political leaders.

Party for winner of last trials left politicians

Anyway, about this secretive government group's itemized documents... (wordplay)

Ones at debutante balls

SOCIETAL pertaining to a {society=n}

""Mankind the measurement of social attitudes within a group by sampling expressions of social acceptance or rejection. ; sociometrist, ; sociometrie,""

*The girls in "Gone Girl" and "Girl, Interrupted," for two

Associations or brotherhoods

Orders from FA reduced international matches

Men willing for tilling

SOFTBALL a type of ball

Beach books, often

Simpleminded or lamebrained

Simpleminded

Softness

Softshell

Comfort to one in grief

Unschooled

Flatiron parts

Solfatara

One who solicits.

Touting for work (as a prostitute)

Lawyers, to Brits

Unwelcome doorbell ringers, often

Dodson and Fogg, in "Pickwick Papers."

Lobby around America showing concern

Showing concerned attention

Concerned over America, therefore allowed to go first

Expressed concern about idiot's clue!

Concern of many in a lonely place

Care, concern

SOLIDARE a small coin

Team spirit is adroitly created

Part one of a Labour anthem

Mutual support within a group

Solidity

Solipsist

Diamond settings

Some diamonds

Rings.

Thus illuminated sign for people living alone

Separately, singly

Solonets

Solonetz

""SOLONETZ a type of soil, also SOLONETS""

Of or pertaining to a solstice.

""The quality, condition, or degree of being soluble or solvable; as, the solubility of a salt; the solubility of a problem or intricate difficulty. as, the solubility of a salt; the solubility of a problem or intricate difficulty.""

Solvation

A chemical reaction in which the solute and solvent react to form a new compound.

The dictrine or the science of the general properties of material substances; somatics.

""The structure or build of a person, especially to the extent to which it exhibits the characteristics of an ectomorph, an endomorph, or a mesomorph.""

Turnover from two seasons, say

Gymnast's specialty, perhaps

Gymnast's specialty

Somerset

Songsmith

Child has good accent, one warbles

Anita Baker debut album, with "The"

Emmy winner Dinah.

She's decomposed (wordplay)

Porter, perhaps, bending strong wire

Producer of music/lyrics

Sonicate

SONICATE to disrupt with sound waves

Shakespeare and fellow souls.

Viewers should hold on to catch 'The Poets'

Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Edna St. Vincent Millay, notably

Sonnet

Sonority

In a soothing manner.

One who sees the future

One who warned Caesar

Expert on the future

Some quad tenants

Clubs for college girls.

Alpha Phi, Delta Zeta, Phi Mu.

Sortilege

Sortition

Sostenuto

Operetta roles

Fancy nickname

Nickname that could make bishop quite sour (wordplay)

Nickname

Reliable platform (wordplay)

Solid way to travel (wordplay)

TV shooting set.

Going from the Bronx to Brooklyn

Headed to Dixie - or stuck there (wordplay)

Southeast

Southland

How this entry appears in the grid

Southwest

Sovietism

SOVIETIZE

Sovietize

Sovranty

Room for skill with shuttle, perhaps

*Mars Pathfinder, for one

Discoverer, for one.

Milieu for astronauts.

Places to go out to launch

Spaghetti

SPALLE the shoulder

Spangly

Sparkly

Sparsity

Sparteine

A state of spasm.

See Spatulate. Spatulate.

""SPATIAL pertaining to space, also SPACIAL""

Strewing about in little drops

Splashing

Plants used for flavoring.

Herbs used for flavouring chewing gum

Spearwort

Special

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

Speciate

Evolutionary process

The quality or state of being specious; speciousness.

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.

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.

Fast craft

Hydroplanes.

Speedster

Waxy substance from whales

Oily stuff: it's about to keep hairdo wonderful

Once-valuable substance harvested from certain whales' heads

SPERMATIA

Spermatid

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

""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

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.""

""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

""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.""

Most long, thin and frail-looking

Tell tales about duke on starter of tempura being least fat

Spindrift

Spinneret

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

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.""

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 .""

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

Splenetic

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.

One who won't play (wordplay)

Rewards of victory, plus drink? Misery!

Troops slip over wet blanket

Spoliate

Plundering

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

Spoliator

Sporocyst

""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.""

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

Sprattle

Sprawly

Spriggy

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

Elastic persisting, most flexible

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

Spritsail

Sputterer

Celebrate outside club, jabbering

Speaking while flurried

Fitful

Leaders with intelligence (wordplay)

They run sleepers (wordplay)

Ms Principal seeing agent's coming round

Squabby

Squalid

Squally

SQUAMATE covered with scales

Squashy

Squatter

Squatty

Squawroot

Squeaky

Gray trout

Squiffy

Squinny

Squinty

Squirmy

Squishy

STABILIZE

STABILIZE

Stabilize

One to horse around with (wordplay)

Reliable spouse (wordplay)

Level-headed groom?