10-letter words containing a, d, n, u, s
- janus word — a word that has opposite or nearly opposite meanings, as cleave, meaning ‘to adhere closely’ and ‘to part or split’.
- landaulets — Plural form of landaulet.
- languished — Simple past tense and past participle of languish.
- laudations — Plural form of laudation.
- laudianism — the policies and practices of Archbishop Laud or his supporters.
- launderers — Plural form of launderer.
- lotus land — the land of the lotus-eaters, or any fabulous, dreamlike setting
- low sunday — the first Sunday after Easter.
- lughnasadh — an ancient Celtic festival held on Aug 1. It is also celebrated by modern pagans
- magnitudes — Plural form of magnitude.
- mandamuses — Plural form of mandamus.
- mansuetude — mildness; gentleness: the mansuetude of Christian love.
- maudlinism — A maudlin condition.
- mendacious — telling lies, especially habitually; dishonest; lying; untruthful: a mendacious person.
- misandrous — Exhibiting or pertaining to misandry: hating or prejudiced against men.
- monandrous — of, relating to, or characterized by monandry.
- muscadines — Plural form of muscadine.
- muscardine — any of several fungi which cause disease in silkworms
- nautiloids — Plural form of nautiloid.
- nondualism — The belief that dualism or dichotomy are illusory phenomena; that things such as mind and body may remain distinct while not actually being separate.
- nondualist — One who rejects dualism.
- nordhausen — a city in central Germany: site of a former Nazi concentration camp.
- nose guard — middle guard.
- noseguards — Plural form of noseguard.
- nursemaids — Plural form of nursemaid.
- nuyts land — early name of a region on the southern coast in S Australia, discovered by the Dutch in 1626–27.
- outlanders — Plural form of outlander.
- outlandish — freakishly or grotesquely strange or odd, as appearance, dress, objects, ideas, or practices; bizarre: outlandish clothes; outlandish questions.
- pantsuited — wearing a pantsuit
- pasquinade — a satire or lampoon, especially one posted in a public place.
- port sudan — a seaport in the NE Sudan, on the Red Sea.
- quandaries — Plural form of quandary.
- queensland — a state in NE Australia. 670,500 sq. mi. (1,736,595 sq. km). Capital: Brisbane.
- quotidians — Plural form of quotidian.
- run scared — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- saint jude — the author of this, stated to be the brother of James (Jude 1) and almost certainly identical with Thaddaeus (Matthew 10:2–4). Feast day: Oct 28 or June 19
- salmagundi — a mixed dish consisting usually of cubed poultry or fish, chopped meat, anchovies, eggs, onions, oil, etc., often served as a salad.
- sanctitude — holiness; saintliness; sanctity.
- sandgrouse — any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young.
- sandsucker — the flatfish Platessa limandoides
- sans doute — without doubt; certainly.
- scandalous — disgraceful; shameful or shocking; improper: scandalous behavior in public.
- scindapsus — any plant of the tropical Asiatic climbing genus Scindapsus, typically stem rooting, esp S. aureus and S. pictus, grown as greenhouse or house plants for their leathery heart-shaped variegated leaves: family Araceae
- seleucidan — Seleucid.
- shin guard — a protective covering, usually of leather or plastic and often padded, for the shins and sometimes the knees, worn chiefly by catchers in baseball and goalkeepers in ice hockey.
- sinusoidal — Mathematics. of or relating to a sinusoid.
- sit around — be idle, lounge about
- slanderous — defamation; calumny: rumors full of slander.
- snare drum — a small double-headed drum, carried at the side or placed on a stationary stand, having snares across the lower head to produce a rattling or reverberating effect.
- sound head — a mechanism through which film passes in a projector for conversion of the soundtrack into audio-frequency signals that can be amplified and reproduced.