10-Letter Words Starting with S

English word

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 salt of salicylic acid.

""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

""Small, thinly sliced pieces of meat, especially veal, dredged in flour, sautéed, and served in a sauce.""

Shock as canal sides crumble

Shock by impropriety

View Surrealist works by European producing shock

Shock.

Lawyer finds a way to fix Irish rascal

Good-for-nothing

Black sheep.

To form a scheme or schemes.

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

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

Bus-seat sharer, perhaps

Dolphin's friend (wordplay)

English word

Slightest bits

Slightest traces

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

SCUTELLA scutellum

Having or showing the skill of a practical seaman.

Capable of being searched.

AB, perhaps, right for a time

Appropriate for the time of year

Like unsurprising temperatures

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

Seecatch

""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.""

SELECTA a disc jockey

Array of trucks (wordplay)

The result of making a CD (wordplay)

Half a ring (wordplay)

Somewhat angelic

Like some gemstones

Cloudy

The physical process of ageing

Process of aging

Quality of the superannuated

""To make sensual; to subject to the love of sensual pleasure; to debase by carnal gratifications; to carnalize; as, sensualized by pleasure. as, sensualized by pleasure.""

Pl. sententiae (-sh - ) An adage or aphorism.

""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.

Like Western land, to the pioneers

Adjective meaning resembling

An edible inky cap mushroom (Coprinus comatus) having shaggy scales covering the cap. Also called shaggy cap .

An arch support inserted into the shank of a shoe.

Fish with a useful proboscis (wordplay)

Fish with a useful proboscis?

Adjective meaning resembling

SHRINK to contract or draw back

A drug or other agent that increases the flow of saliva.

A kind of meteorite. See under Meteorite. Meteorite.

Like a lady up but not over (wordplay)

One way to ride a horse.

Teams go off riding in unorthodox manner

Swimmer's skill.

Relative of the crawl

Style of swimming

Side line for the artist (wordplay)

Dark art (wordplay)

It can be a relief

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

Nearly identical quality

Resemblance or semblance

Lack of distinction limited us, I recollected

Assuming an appearance.

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.""

Farm outbuilding

Outbuilding that usually has vents but no windows

Feature of an unrifled firearm

Kind of firearm.

Feature of a shotgun barrel

Vehicle with skilike runners

Vehicle with runners

Sleigh for today's grandma

Expressed concern about idiot's clue!

Concern of many in a lonely place

Care, concern

SOLUBILISE

SOLUBILIZE

""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.""

Dropping off lemon scone that's cooked

Sleepiness comes on Len unexpectedly

Drowsiness.

Musical impersonator at MoMA (wordplay)

What homonyms do

Reliable platform (wordplay)

Solid way to travel (wordplay)

TV shooting set.

Marching-band instrument

March king's namesake, in a way

Relative of a helicon

See Spatulate. Spatulate.

Train in a particular area requiring less pace, one twice derailed

Concentrate on expertise in unique island with endless sunshine finally

Work in a limited field.

Major in

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.""

Inscrutable

Inscrutable

Enigmatic

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.""

Plane for shaping curved surfaces

Tool said to have succeeded getting in

Tool said to cut closely

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

Having little scales; squamellate; squamulate.

Squishy, as paper towels

Compressible object inviting a hug (wordplay)

Gray trout

One to horse around with (wordplay)

Reliable spouse (wordplay)

Level-headed groom?

Overhead projection (wordplay)

A hanging for a caveman (wordplay)

Structure deposited on cave roof

A prison-camp child that is growing up!

A certain point underground (wordplay)

Cave floor growth

Legislature's place

Where politicians aren't "fed"

Where some bills are created

A barometer for recording small variations in atmospheric pressure.

They knew the Power Of A Woman

Tall and well-proportioned

Striking what little Stewart equates to

""Made or introduced by statute; proceeding from an act of the legistature; as, a statutable provision or remedy. as, a statutable provision or remedy.""

""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

Brand negatively

Malign

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

AUDIBLE able to be heard

AVERAGE to calculate the arithmetical mean value of

COLLEGE a school of higher learning

Somewhat cordate; somewhat like a heart in shape.

Group customs in U-boats (wordplay)

Hip-hop, for example

Division of society

Of or pertaining to a subject.

""LICENSE to issue or grant authoritative permission to, also LICENCE""

Capable of being sublimed or sublimated.

Meekly obedient

Writing 'Yours obediently' under a letter (wordplay)

Communication on warship that's prepared to surrender

MUCOSAE mucosa

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

Programmer's reusable code

Part of a computer program

SCIENCE knowledge obtained by observation and experiment

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

Sinking of land, maybe due to mining

Settling loans, I get spoken of as thick

Settling down with advance team, getting directions to capture castle, initially

Fill in (for)

Go in (for)

Put in place of another

Capable of being subsumed.

SURFACE to apply an outer layer to

Cunning plan(s)

Deception begs future involvement

Strategic trickery

Seeking to undermine

Revolutionary

VISIBLE something that can be seen

Win I have running

Hit I have in a regular series

Following one another

Tasty juiciness

Juiciness

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.

Tending to imply

Implying something rude

hinting at something indecent

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

SUMMON to order to appear

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

SUPPLE to make {pliant=adj}

In earnest, praying for special pun to be concocted

Beg kitty to lie about with wild pups

Sue being agile, catching one pet (wordplay)

Pray humbly

Providing help

Playful, keeping up with helpful intentions

Frisky about being at university, maintaining a loyal interest

""Capable of being supposed, or imagined to exist; as, that is not a supposable case. as, that is not a supposable case.""

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)

Susceptible.

""Tending to suspend, or to keep in suspense; causing interruption or delay; uncertain; doubtful.""

Unseen cats desperate for nourishment

Food and drink

What one needs to get by

SWITCH to beat with a flexible rod

See Sweepstake. Sweepstake.

Balance the proportions

Introduce regularity

Offer condolences to poor Amish types

Express fellow feeling

Show concern for leaders of Scotland Yard made to quickly touch on his point

""To have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain.""

SYNCRETISE

SYNCRETIZE

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

Oh! Decency's different with eg 'New faces'

Use of 'Midas' for 'wealthy person,' for example

To express by a synonym or synonyms; to give the synonym or synonyms corresponding to.

Combine into a complex whole.

Form by combining elements

Put together said evil article on weak glue

See ligase .