10-Letter Words Starting with S

Staid

He's hardly a comedian

Sedate aspects of a serious man

Sedate type is troubled with bedsores

Sobriety

Criminal robs quite special handles

Fanciful names.

Nicknames.

SOCIALISE

Socialise

Socialism

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

Converted to public ownership

SOCIALIZE To render social.

Socialize

SOCIETAL pertaining to a {society=n}

Sociogram

""The study of human social behavior, especially the study of the origins, organization, institutions, and development of human society.""

""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

SODDEN to make {soggy=adj}

Sodomize

SOFTBALL a type of ball

Beach books, often

Simpleminded or lamebrained

Simpleminded

Softness

Softshell

In due course endless tour run finally stops for temporary residents

Visitors

Sojourn

Comfort to one in grief

Solarise

Solarize

Soldiery

Soldier

Solecise

Unschooled

Solecize

Dignified

Solemnize

Gravity

Soleness

Of a conductor

Flatiron parts

Solfatara

Solfeggio

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

SOLIDARE a small coin

Team spirit is adroitly created

Part one of a Labour anthem

Mutual support within a group

Went hard

Solidify

Solidity

Solipsism

Solipsist

Diamond settings

Some diamonds

Rings.

Thus illuminated sign for people living alone

Separately, singly

Solonchak

Solonets

Solonetz

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

Of or pertaining to a solstice.

SOLUBILISE

""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.""

SOLUBILIZE

Solvation

Solvency

Plural or third person singular

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

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.""

SOMBER to make {dismal=adj}

Important people

Important individuals

Big shots

Turnover from two seasons, say

Gymnast's specialty, perhaps

Gymnast's specialty

Somerset

In an undetermined place, in dialect

Port authorities (wordplay)

Wine service managers

Wine stewards

Dropping off lemon scone that's cooked

Sleepiness comes on Len unexpectedly

Drowsiness.

SONGLESS without songs

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

SONOGRAPH

Sonority

In ringing fashion

In a soothing manner.

One who sees the future

One who warned Caesar

Expert on the future

""A crisp, puffy, deep-fried pastry often served with honey or syrup.""

Sopapilla

American students appear more posh so dressed

Pertaining to a second-year student (US)

Like a lot of humor in this puzzle, maturity-wise, admittedly

Long-winded speeches, for example

Sleep-inducing medicaments

Sopranino

Squalor.

Afflicted with migraine.

Soreness

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

In a soulless manner.

Musical impersonator at MoMA (wordplay)

What homonyms do

A soundingboard.

They support diaphragms in healthy chests

Resonating chambers in musical instruments

SOUNDING the action of determining depth of water

Impervious, in a way

Kind of room

Like recording booths

Reliable platform (wordplay)

Solid way to travel (wordplay)

TV shooting set.

Utensils used before entrees are served

Utensils from the second half

Chowder-eating aids

Volume of original documents for study

SOURCE to originate from

Veteran inhabitants of Alaska.

San Francisco thoroughbreads

Gold Rush prospectors

Sourness

Grouches

Marching-band instrument

March king's namesake, in a way

Relative of a helicon

Going from the Bronx to Brooklyn

Headed to Dixie - or stuck there (wordplay)

Southeast

Southland

How this entry appears in the grid

Southwest

Souvlakia

Old gold coins

Kings, but not aces

Kings and queens

Sovietism

SOVIETIZE

Sovietize

Sovranty

Sowbelly

Spaceband

Room for skill with shuttle, perhaps

*Mars Pathfinder, for one

Discoverer, for one.

Milieu for astronauts.

Places to go out to launch

Sci-fi crafts

Sci-fi staples

Modern transportation

Certain tethered strolls

SPACIOUS ample in extent

Spadework

Spaghetti

SPALLE the shoulder

SPANCEL to bind with a rope

Spancel

Spangly

Sparkly

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V-8's octet

They fire the spirit of motorists

Characteristic of desert vegetation

Boondocks quality

Boondocks feature

Sparsity

Sparteine

A state of spasm.

See Spatulate. Spatulate.

""SPATIAL pertaining to space, also SPACIAL""

Strewing about in little drops

Splashing

Asparagus tips? They're in the van!

The points of savage attacks

Leads attack as hare sped off

Plants used for flavoring.

Herbs used for flavouring chewing gum

Spearwort

Special

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

Concentrate on expertise in unique island with endless sunshine finally

Strong subject

Circling island, misplaces cultivated field

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

Work in a limited field.

Major in

Speciate

Evolutionary process

Belief in human supremacy

Bias favoring humans over every other animal

Specifier

Clearly identifying

The quality or state of being specious; speciousness.

""SPECIOUS plausible, but inaccurate""

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.

SPECULAR relating to a speculum

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.

Unable to say anything

Dumbfounded, say

Dumbfounded (wordplay)

Speedball

Fast craft

Hydroplanes.

Haste

Rapidity

Speedster

Plants make water to live on board

Hurry to small city to see flowering plants

Science of cave exploring

Study of caves

Scientific study of caves

Entrances

B..O..U..N..D (wordplay)

Give the letters a leap - how enchanted!

Absorbed by B-O-U-N-D, perhaps

Cave men, of sorts

Cave men of today.

Underground hobby (wordplay)

Tell about gym bumbler exploring caves

Exploration of caves as a hobby

Waxy substance from whales

Oily stuff: it's about to keep hairdo wonderful

Once-valuable substance harvested from certain whales' heads

Spermary

SPERMATIA

Spermatid

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

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.""