10-letter words containing a, d, s, u
- gullstrand — Allvar [ahl-vahr] /ˈɑl vɑr/ (Show IPA), 1862–1930, Swedish oculist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1911.
- gynandrous — having stamens and pistils united in a column, as in orchids.
- hadrosaurs — Plural form of hadrosaur.
- happy dust — cocaine.
- happy-dust — cocaine.
- hard sauce — a mixture of butter and confectioners' sugar, often with flavoring and cream.
- hard stuff — strongly addictive drugs.
- head louse — See under louse (def 1).
- head nurse — the chief nurse in a hospital; matron
- headsquare — a scarf worn on the head
- hexandrous — (of a plant) having six stamen
- hexapodous — (zoology) Having six feet; belonging to the Hexapoda.
- hindustani — a standard language and lingua franca of northern India based on a dialect of Western Hindi spoken around Delhi. Abbreviation: Hind. Compare Hindi (def 2), Urdu.
- housemaids — Plural form of housemaid.
- hudson bay — a large inland sea in N Canada. 850 miles (1370 km) long; 600 miles (965 km) wide; 400,000 sq. mi. (1,036,000 sq. km).
- humidistat — an instrument for measuring and controlling humidity.
- husbandage — the fees and commissions of a ship's manager.
- husbanding — a married man, especially when considered in relation to his partner in marriage.
- husbandman — a farmer.
- husbandmen — Plural form of husbandman.
- hydraulics — the science that deals with the laws governing water or other liquids in motion and their applications in engineering; practical or applied hydrodynamics.
- idolatrous — worshiping idols.
- iguanodons — Plural form of iguanodon.
- immeasured — immeasurable
- impaludism — a diseased state affecting the inhabitants of marshy areas
- industrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
- infrasound — sound with frequencies below the audible range.
- insinuated — to suggest or hint slyly: He insinuated that they were lying.
- intrasquad — (sports) Within a team.
- iridaceous — belonging to the Iridaceae family of plants.
- jamshedpur — a city in SE Jharkhand, in NE India.
- janus word — a word that has opposite or nearly opposite meanings, as cleave, meaning ‘to adhere closely’ and ‘to part or split’.
- jaspideous — Jaspidean; made of jasper.
- jeopardous — perilous; dangerous; hazardous; risky.
- judas tree — a purple-flowered Eurasian tree, Cercis siliquastrum, of the legume family, supposed to be the kind upon which Judas hanged himself.
- juiceheads — Plural form of juicehead.
- jump leads — Jump leads are two thick wires that can be used to start a car when its battery does not have enough power. The jump leads are used to connect the battery to the battery of another car that is working properly.
- juxtaposed — to place close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.
- landaulets — Plural form of landaulet.
- languished — Simple past tense and past participle of languish.
- lardaceous — lardlike; fatty.
- laudations — Plural form of laudation.
- laudianism — the policies and practices of Archbishop Laud or his supporters.
- launderers — Plural form of launderer.
- lifeguards — Plural form of lifeguard.
- liquidates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of liquidate.
- 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.