10-letter words containing a, n, t, i, s, u
- quotidians — Plural form of quotidian.
- recusation — the act of recusing a judge
- resupinate — bent backward.
- rumfustian — a type of spiced nightcap made with beer
- rupestrian — made or found on cave walls or rocks
- 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
- saint luke — a fellow worker of Paul and a physician (Colossians 4:14). Feast day: Oct 18
- saint paul — Saint, died a.d. c67, a missionary and apostle to the gentiles: author of several of the Epistles. Compare Saul (def 2).
- saint pius — Saint (Giuseppe Sarto) 1835–1914, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1903–14.
- saint-just — Louis Antoine Léon de [lwee ahn-twan ley-awn duh] /lwi ɑ̃ˈtwan leɪˈɔ̃ də/ (Show IPA), 1767–94, French revolutionist.
- saint-ouen — a suburb of Paris in N France.
- saintsbury — George Edward Bateman [beyt-muh n] /ˈbeɪt mən/ (Show IPA), 1845–1933, English literary critic and historian.
- salutation — the act of saluting.
- sanatorium — a hospital for the treatment of chronic diseases, as tuberculosis or various nervous or mental disorders.
- sanctitude — holiness; saintliness; sanctity.
- sanguinity — cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident: a sanguine disposition; sanguine expectations.
- sanitarium — an institution for the preservation or recovery of health, especially for convalescence; health resort.
- sanitorium — a facility for housing patients with long-term illnesses
- saturation — the act or process of saturating.
- saturnalia — (sometimes used with a plural verb) the festival of Saturn, celebrated in December in ancient Rome as a time of unrestrained merrymaking.
- sauntering — to walk with a leisurely gait; stroll: sauntering through the woods.
- scaturient — gushing; overflowing.
- semi-bantu — a group of languages of W Africa, mainly SE Nigeria and Cameroon, that were not traditionally classed as Bantu but that show certain essential Bantu characteristics. They are now classed with Bantu in the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo family
- sensualist — a person given to the indulgence of the senses or appetites.
- sensuality — sensual nature: the sensuality of Keats's poetry.
- 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.
- sequential — characterized by regular sequence of parts.
- simulation — imitation or enactment, as of something anticipated or in testing.
- sinarquist — a member or advocate of an ultrareactionary, semifascist movement organized in Mexico about 1937.
- sit around — be idle, lounge about
- solutional — the act of solving a problem, question, etc.: The situation is approaching solution.
- souari nut — the large, edible, oily nut of a tall tree, Caryocar nuciferum, of tropical South America.
- souterrain — a subterranean passage or structure; grotto.
- squamation — the state of being squamate.
- square tin — a medium-sized loaf having a crusty top, baked in a tin with a square base
- squirt can — an oilcan with a flexible body that ejects oil when compressed.
- stanislaus — (Stanislaus Leszczynski) 1677–1766, king of Poland 1704–09, 1733–35.
- staudinger — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1881–1965, German chemist: Nobel prize 1953.
- stimulancy — an energizing, invigorating, or stimulating quality
- stramonium — jimson weed.
- stupration — an act of ravishing or a violation
- subcabinet — a group of advisers ranking below the cabinet level, chosen by a chief executive usually from members of the various executive departments.
- subintimal — the innermost membrane or lining of some organ or part, especially that of an artery, vein, or lymphatic.
- subintrant — having attacks or fits one after the other
- submediant — the sixth tone of a diatonic scale, being midway between the subdominant and the upper tonic.
- subnitrate — a basic salt of nitric acid.
- substation — a branch of a main post office.
- subterrain — a cave or subterranean room.
- sufflation — to inflate.
- sunbathing — to take a sunbath.