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}

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

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

Schmaltz

Schmalzy

* Some hypoallergenic hirsute hounds

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

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)

Slightest bits

Slightest traces

Minute particles

Flashes.

Traces

Scleroma

SCLEROTIA

Conductor's stand (wordplay)

Jazz performance display (wordplay)

Ball park feature.

Where some eagles are seen

They supply data from the Telegraph

Stadium souvenirs

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

English word

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

SCREEN to provide with a concealing partition

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

""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.

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

The act or an instance of scrubbing.

Wild expanse

Bushfire locales

A woman hired to clean.

SCRUMMAGE See Scrimmage. Scrimmage.

Scrummage

Of Praxiteles's art

SCUTELLA scutellum

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

Not new - part of watch!

Watch! It goes around (wordplay)

Used to be found on watch (wordplay)

Members of religious factions

Those insects got the second artisan beaten

Modular parlor pieces

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.""

Supreme attention to the things of the present life; worldliness.

Make less ecclesiastical

Make worldly

Laid-back quality

Tranquility

Dignity.

Seecatch

Seedeater

One coming from East Germany strangely in pieces

Segregant

Thus kept a part as one

Gets agreed damages set aside

Gets agreed alternative set aside

Sets apart

Aria from "Carmen."

Fast Spanish dance

""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.""

Adjective (-al)

Good vibrations record (wordplay)

Shocking record strikes some as grim

Is cat among horses up for the earth-shattering record (wordplay)

Selachian

SELECTA a disc jockey

SEMANTIC pertaining to {meaning=n}

""SEMAPHORE A signal telegraph; an apparatus for giving signals by the disposition of lanterns, flags, oscillating arms, etc.""

Signals at sea

Sends signals.

Semblable

Outward appearances

Aspects

Adjective (-al)

Occurring in March and September, say

Like some sales

Occurring every six months

Semidwarf

FEUDAL pertaining to an ancient political and economic system

Round for a foursome (wordplay)

Round of four

Penultimate March Madness round

Not-too-dressy wedding attire

More than casual

Like attire for some weddings

LETHAL something designed to cause death

Semimetal

Minister-to-be

Future pastor

Embryo cleric

Schools for fathers-to-be (wordplay)

Educational institutions.

Special schools

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

Seminomad

Like some gemstones

Cloudy

Stamp sold at a premium

Note house tremble

Sixteenth note

Musical note

SACRED consecrated or holy

YEARLY a once a year publication

Of a Washington group.

Like US upper assembly members

Like some biennial elections

Senatorial.

Seneschal

Senhorita

Public scandals, for example

Superstars, for example

They are felt to be very exciting people

That which can be sensed

The condition or character of one who is sensual; subjection to sensual feelings and appetite; sensuality.

Libertine

Pleasurable indulgence - sexed up element of Jane Austen work (wordplay)

""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.

""Comprising sentences; as, a sentential translation. as, a sentential translation.""

Please try a new version, one at a time

Late payers settle one by one

Individually

Divorcing pairs get an arrangement

Confess about end of marriage, moving apart thus

Dividing

One is apart (anagram)

Freedom from marital break-up (wordplay)

With apt reason I arranged for divorce

A miser's apt to become perverse, not joining in

One who advocates secession

One who would break up a union

One advocating political autonomy

""Causing, or being to cause, separation.""

Separator

""Pl. septenarii (- - ) A Latin verse used only in comedy and consisting of seven feet, especially a catalectic iambic or trochaic tetrameter.""

Like the seven-year itch (wordplay)

Like a seven year itch

Recurring every seven years

""Poison blood poisoning caused by pathogenic microorganisms and their toxic products in the bloodstream. ; septicemic, ; septicaemic,""

Dividing the partitions; said of a method of dehiscence in which a pod splits through the partitions and is divided into its component carpels.

Purcell has developed melancholy

Hollow and deep

Purcell has composed, despite being gloomy

Inclined to follow a leader; following; attendant.

Following in a logical sequence

In consecutive order

Describing 2, 4, 6, 8, etc.

Mariachis, for example

Wooers, perhaps

Singers under balconies

Playing in attempt to win hand

Playing to win hand

Romantic singing orchestrated in Eastern gardens

Top player pocketing Arab cash is in parts

Twelve-tone music does, in common with the publishers of Dickens

Serialism

Serialist

SERIALIZE

Serialize

Serigraph

SERIGRAPH An autographic device to test the strength of raw silk.

Serration

Maybe a private priest (wordplay)

Chaplain, perhaps one in Army (wordplay)

Bishop perhaps fixes the washing machine

Like Western land, to the pioneers

Cuts.

Abstract noun (-ity)

Turned blue (wordplay)

Like many pop culture images

Sexualize

Sforzando

Babs shines (anagram)

Shadbush

Shadchan

Most mysterious

In full light.

Legendary sword: may yours never grow so!

Adjective meaning resembling

It's not so neat having minced haggis by the loch!

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

Thug's threats

Extortions through blackmail

Extortions

Shallow

Losing depth

Shamanism

Shamanist

Very modest, bashful

Showing guilty embarrassment

Red, perhaps