10-Letter Words Starting with S

Certain timbers.

Throws around axe, starting to topple small beams

Fall guys for scandals

Relatives of fall guys.

Cousins of fall guys.

Lawyer finds a way to fix Irish rascal

Good-for-nothing

Black sheep.

Scapolite

Egyptian symbol.

Rascal, from Italian farce

Boastful coward in drama

Stock character in Italian farce

State that's rarely encountered scenes with cars crashing

Lack

Shortages damage urban areas

Shortages briefly alarm conurbations

Wound reminder + urban areas

Stuffed shirts (wordplay)

Field agents (wordplay)

They keep birds away from crops

Words in 48-point type

Front page phenomena.

Sensational front-page items.

Scarfskin

Soil breakers, one passing through common, cutting marks

Scarify

Mark on tongue seen before a fever

Injure tongue with a complaint

Disease is to disfigure Roman Adonis, initially

Scarper

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

Collectors of a sort

Those who delight in filth, namely TV characters

Is counsel after justice or just bits of it (wordplay)

Screenwriters from Tehran (wordplay)

Writers in Hollywood.

Screenplay writers

SCENICAL {scenic=adj}

Scepter

A certain reluctance to give credit

State one's in before one knows it

Doubt whether philosopher is Frenchman

Scheduler

Schedule

Scheelite

Plans for circulating catechisms

Plans redraft of catechisms

Circuit diagrams

Combination of the aspects of heavenly bodies.

To form a scheme or schemes.

Playfully, on a music score

Jokingly, in musical terminology

Playfully, in music

Old money useless ultimately, horrifying society

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

Causing division in the RC Church

Favouring separation from a church

Singular elegance about theory volunteers rejected being fractious (wordplay)

Dry fruit that splits into several one-seeded portions

""SCHIZO a person affected with a type of psychotic disorder, also SCHIZOID""

Schizzy

Inept ones: Slang

Inept ones Slang

Yiddish chumps

Schlep

Schlump

Schmaltz

Schmalzy

Schmeer

Schmoos

Schmooze

* Some hypoallergenic hirsute hounds

Some breaded cutlets

Veal cutlets

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

Schnorkel

Schnorrer

Schnozzle

Relating to education

Pedant and stoic clash violently

Clash with stoic could be academic

Commentators, muddled as Holst (sic)

Medieval glossographers lash stoics indiscriminately

Schoolbag

Volume of students (wordplay)

Student's text

Teaching aid

All Eton students

They have a lot of ties to their classes

Train ophthalmologist, initially, to cut next to small pupils

In form miss (wordplay)

Metaphorically giddy one

She may learn a thing or two

Schooling

REVILED

Old-style word for a teacher

Teacher, old style.

Any prude or pedant

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

Bus-seat sharer, perhaps

Dolphin's friend (wordplay)

Classy place (wordplay)

Teaching space (wordplay)

This has class

English word

Student's chore.

Taking notes, studying, etc

Taking notes, studying, etc.

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.

Scirrhus

Cutting I sign with cross, perhaps

Eliminating from a text

Cutting along dotted lines

Scleroma

Sclerose

SCLEROTIA

Sclerotic

Sclerotin

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

Scolecite

Scollop

Scombroid

Conductor's stand (wordplay)

Jazz performance display (wordplay)

Ball park feature.

Where some eagles are seen

They supply data from the Telegraph

Stadium souvenirs

Scorify

SCORNFUL expressing contempt

""Of or belonging to the suborder Scorpaenoidei, which includes the scorpion fishes and rockfishes.""

Consummate cads

Heels

English word

Scouther

Scowder

In a disapproving manner

Scrabbler

Scrabbly

Desperately trying to get a handhold

Most rough, as cliffs

Roughest

Scraggly

Scraich

Scraigh

Scrambler

Break-up gift (wordplay)

Get out jewellery for outdoor pursuit

Off-road racing that is circuitous

Trash some novels (wordplay)

Fight with reserves for albums

Scrappage

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

""The picarian birds, as distinguished from the singing birds.""

Screechy

Noise from boobooks

SCREEN to provide with a concealing partition

Movie presentations

The movie industry; Hollywood.

Work on project for film

Script of film with directions

Work that may win an Oscar

What snooker players do, mad folk!

Eccentric fellows Slang.

Eccentric fellows: Slang.

Screwbean

""Screwier , screwiest Slang Eccentric; crazy.""

Screwworm

Junk drawers (wordplay)

Scribble

""SCRIMMAGE Formerly, a skirmish; now, a general row or confused fight or struggle.""

""SCRIMMAGE Formerly, a skirmish; now, a general row or confused fight or struggle.""

Football squad warm-ups

Pre-preseason games

Football plays.

Scrimpy

Ivory carvings

""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

Professional copyists

Pen wielders.

Archaic term for "clerks."

Diseased flour cooked and eaten by Liverpudlian missing drug

Scroggy

Ornamental designs

Ornamentation.

Scrooch

Scrootch

Scrootch

They treat urges to work with scorn

Scroungy

Scrounge

The act or an instance of scrubbing.

Scrubby

Wild expanse

Bushfire locales

A woman hired to clean.

A woman hired to clean.

Most unkempt

SCRUMMAGE See Scrimmage. Scrimmage.

Scrummage

Squeezing (together)

Conscientious to a carpenter (wordplay)

Honest or careful

*Guided by strict principles

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

Rooms for cleaning pots and pans

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

Scungilli

Scunner

Sin, king, on purpose

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

Unjustifiably defamatory

Grossly insulting

Obscenely slanderous

No such infamy for limeys (wordplay)

Contemptibility

Scutcheon

SCUTELLA scutellum

Scutter

Of or belonging to the class Scyphozoa.

Seabeach

Element 106

Element #106

Seafaring

Having or showing the skill of a practical seaman.

Quality shown by good ratings (wordplay)

Mariner's skill.

Skill of a sailor

Smoothly made as a one-piece (wordplay)

In an unbroken, flowing way

Singer's employer (wordplay)

Betsy Ross, for example

Dorcas, for example

Capable of being searched.

Impossible to be searched; inscrutable; impenetrable.

AB, perhaps, right for a time

Appropriate for the time of year

Like unsurprising temperatures

SEASON to improve flavour

Get the sailor boy on your side from time to time

For the time there's a sailor on your side

Boy and friend going under water at a certain time of the year

'Tasteful saltations, perhaps (10)'

Elements of cuisine I note in shanties

Salt and pepper

Without succession of the seasons.

Seastrand

Seborrhea

""A disease of the sebaceous glands characterized by excessive secretion of sebum or an alteration in its quality, resulting in an oily coating, crusts, or scales on the skin.""

Secession

SECLUDED seclude

Seclusion

Not new - part of watch!

Watch! It goes around (wordplay)

Used to be found on watch (wordplay)

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

False clues crop up to sideline belief

Disengage from the faithful? Awful clues result

Doctrine bothering aimless cur

Profane belief in Lear's music melody

A religious school of thought in Church's place

""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.""