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10-letter words containing a, g, u, s

  • 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)
  • subangular — fairly angular
  • subaverage — a quantity, rating, or the like that represents or approximates an arithmetic mean: Her golf average is in the 90s. My average in science has gone from B to C this semester.
  • subglacial — beneath a glacier: a subglacial stream.
  • subglossal — of or relating to the tongue.
  • subglottal — of or relating to the glottis.
  • subheading — a subordinate division of a title or heading.
  • subjugator — to bring under complete control or subjection; conquer; master.
  • sublingual — situated under the tongue, or on the underside of the tongue.
  • submanager — a secondary or assistant manager
  • subprogram — procedure (def 4b).
  • 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 bird — any of various honeycreepers that feed on nectar.
  • sugar bowl — a small bowl, usually having a cover, for serving granulated sugar or sugar cubes.
  • sugar bush — an evergreen shrub, Rhus ovata, of the cashew family, native to the desert regions of the southwestern U.S., having light yellow flowers in short, dense spikes and hairy, dark-red fruit.
  • sugar camp — a grove of sugar maples.
  • sugar cane — a tall grass, Saccharum officinarum, of tropical and warm regions, having a stout, jointed stalk, and constituting the chief source of sugar.
  • sugar corn — sweet corn.
  • sugar cube — small block of sugar
  • sugar loaf — resembling a sugar-loaf.
  • sugar lump — cube of sugar for coffee or tea
  • sugar palm — gomuti (def 1).
  • sugar pine — a tall pine, Pinus lambertiana, of California, Oregon, etc., having cones 20 inches (51 cm) long.
  • sugar soap — an alkaline compound used for cleaning or stripping paint
  • sugar tree — a sugar maple.
  • sugar-coat — to cover with sugar: to sugarcoat a pill.
  • sugar-free — containing no sugar: a sugar-free cola.
  • sugar-loaf — resembling a sugar-loaf.
  • sugar-plum — a small sweetmeat made of sugar with various flavoring and coloring ingredients; a bonbon.
  • sugarallie — liquorice
  • sugarberry — a hackberry, Celtis laevigata, of the southern U.S.
  • sugarhouse — a shed or other building where maple syrup or maple sugar is made.
  • sulfa drug — any of a group of drugs closely related in chemical structure to sulfanilamide, having a bacteriostatic rather than a bacteriocidal effect: used in the treatment of various wounds, burns, and infections.
  • sunbathing — to take a sunbath.
  • sungchiang — Older Spelling. Songjiang.
  • sunglasses — burning glass.
  • suntanning — the action or process of acquiring a suntan
  • superagent — an expert or highly effective agent, esp of a sports player or actor
  • supercargo — a merchant-ship officer who is in charge of the cargo and the commercial concerns of the voyage.
  • supergiant — Astronomy. supergiant star.
  • supergrade — a high-level rank, Grade 16, 17, or 18, in the federal civil service.
  • supergrass — criminal informant
  • superlarge — extremely large
  • supragenic — beyond the limits or above the level of genes.
  • surge tank — a large surge chamber.
  • surgically — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
  • surpassing — of a large amount or high degree; exceeding, excelling, or extraordinary: structures of surpassing magnificence.
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