10-letter words containing a, g, u, s, t
- mangetouts — Plural form of mangetout.
- mastigures — Plural form of mastigure.
- megathrust — (geology) A sudden slip along a fault between a subducting and an overriding plate; results in a major earthquake.
- multistage — (of a rocket or guided missile) having more than one stage.
- mystagogue — someone who instructs others before initiation into religious mysteries or before participation in the sacraments.
- naughtiest — Superlative form of naughty; most naughty.
- nauseating — causing sickness of the stomach; nauseous.
- objurgates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of objurgate.
- onslaughts — Plural form of onslaught.
- orangutans — Plural form of orangutan.
- osculating — Present participle of osculate.
- outgassing — to remove (adsorbed or occluded gases), usually by heat or reduced pressure.
- outlasting — Present participle of outlast.
- outrageous — of the nature of or involving gross injury or wrong: an outrageous slander.
- outraising — Present participle of outraise.
- outsailing — Present participle of outsail.
- outstaring — Present participle of outstare.
- purgatives — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
- quantising — Present participle of quantise.
- sampaguita — (in the Philippines) an Arabian jasmine.
- sanguinity — cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident: a sanguine disposition; sanguine expectations.
- satya yuga — the first and best of the four Yugas.
- sauntering — to walk with a leisurely gait; stroll: sauntering through the woods.
- scattergun — A scattergun is a gun that fires a lot of small metal balls at the same time.
- septuagint — the oldest Greek version of the Old Testament, traditionally said to have been translated by 70 or 72 Jewish scholars at the request of Ptolemy II: most scholars believe that only the Pentateuch was completed in the early part of the 3rd century b.c. and that the remaining books were translated in the next two centuries.
- slaughtery — a slaughterhouse
- sluicegate — an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
- smart drug — a drug or other substance that is claimed to enhance memory, concentration, or other mental functions.
- soundstage — a soundproof room or building in which cinematic films are shot
- south gate — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- squeteague — an Atlantic food fish, Cynoscion regalis, of the croaker family.
- staple gun — a machine for fastening together sheets of paper or the like, with wire staples.
- staudinger — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1881–1965, German chemist: Nobel prize 1953.
- strasbourg — a department in NE France. 1848 sq. mi. (4785 sq. km). Capital: Strasbourg.
- strassburg — a city in NE France, on the Rhine: the chief French inland port; under German rule (1870–1918); university (1567); seat of the Council of Europe and of the European Parliament. Pop: 264 115 (1999)
- subglottal — of or relating to the glottis.
- subjugator — to bring under complete control or subjection; conquer; master.
- subtangent — the part of the x-axis cut off between the ordinate of a given point of a curve and the tangent at that point.
- suffragist — an advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage, especially to women.
- sugar beet — various cultivars of a beet, Beta vulgaris, of the amaranth family, having a white root, cultivated for the sugar it yields.
- sugar tree — a sugar maple.
- sugar-coat — to cover with sugar: to sugarcoat a pill.
- sunbathing — to take a sunbath.
- suntanning — the action or process of acquiring a suntan
- superagent — an expert or highly effective agent, esp of a sports player or actor
- supergiant — Astronomy. supergiant star.
- surge tank — a large surge chamber.
- surrogatum — a substitute
- sustaining — to support, hold, or bear up from below; bear the weight of, as a structure.
- t'ai tsung — (Li Shih-min) a.d. 597–649, Chinese emperor of the T'ang dynasty 627–649.