10-Letter Words Starting: ESCAL

• edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces

• thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled

• edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions

• bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top

• an act of scaling by the use of ladders (especially the walls of a fortification)

• climb up and over

• increase in extent or intensity

• someone who gains access by the use of ladders

• an increase to counteract a perceived discrepancy

• a clause in a contract that provides for an increase or a decrease in wages or prices or benefits etc. depending on certain conditions (as a change in the cost of living index)

• a stairway whose steps move continuously on a circulating belt