10-letter words containing a, r, i, o, u, s
- modularise — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
- mordacious — biting or given to biting.
- mortuaries — Plural form of mortuary.
- mousterian — of or relating to a Middle Paleolithic culture of Neanderthal man dating to the early upper Pleistocene Epoch (c100,000–40,000 b.c.) and consisting of five or more stone-artifact traditions in Europe whose characteristic tools are side scrapers and points.
- muciparous — muciferous.
- neurinomas — Plural form of neurinoma.
- obituaries — Plural form of obituary.
- obituarist — a notice of the death of a person, often with a biographical sketch, as in a newspaper.
- omniparous — producing or generating all things
- opium wars — a war between Great Britain and China that began in 1839 as a conflict over the opium trade and ended in 1842 with the Chinese cession of Hong Kong to the British, the opening of five Chinese ports to foreign merchants, and the grant of other commercial and diplomatic privileges in the Treaty of Nanking.
- outraising — Present participle of outraise.
- outstaring — Present participle of outstare.
- oxyuriasis — human infection with pinworms.
- panivorous — subsisting on bread; bread-eating.
- paroecious — (of certain mosses) having the male and female reproductive organs beside or near each other.
- parvovirus — Veterinary Pathology. a highly contagious, often fatal viral disease of dogs, characterized by vomiting, severe diarrhea, and depression and accompanied by high fever and loss of appetite.
- persuasion — the act of persuading or seeking to persuade.
- plesiosaur — any marine reptile of the extinct genus Plesiosaurus, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a small head, a long neck, four paddlelike limbs, and a short tail.
- popularise — to make popular: to popularize a dance.
- popularist — designed for the general public; non-specialist; non-intellectual
- praetorius — Michael (Michael Schultheiss) 1571–1621, German composer, organist, and theorist.
- precarious — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
- predacious — predatory; rapacious.
- procacious — insolent
- pupiparous — (of an insect) bearing fully developed larvae that are ready to pupate.
- quasiorder — (set theory) A preorder.
- radiculose — having small roots or rhizoids
- radius rod — (in a feathering paddle wheel) any of the rods, meeting in a hub mounted eccentrically with the paddle-wheel shaft, for feathering the paddles while in the water.
- raisonneur — a character in a play, novel, or the like who voices the central theme, philosophy, or point of view of the work.
- ranivorous — that eats frogs
- recusation — the act of recusing a judge
- riot squad — a group of police officers having special training and equipment for quelling riots and other public disturbances.
- rubiaceous — belonging to the Rubiaceae, the madder family of plants.
- rusticator — to go to the country.
- saliferous — containing or producing salt: saliferous strata.
- salubrious — favorable to or promoting health; healthful: salubrious air.
- sanatorium — a hospital for the treatment of chronic diseases, as tuberculosis or various nervous or mental disorders.
- sanitorium — a facility for housing patients with long-term illnesses
- saturation — the act or process of saturating.
- sdrucciola — (of rhymes) triple
- seaborgium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Sg; atomic number: 106.
- simulatory — to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like): to simulate crisis conditions.
- sit around — be idle, lounge about
- souari nut — the large, edible, oily nut of a tall tree, Caryocar nuciferum, of tropical South America.
- souterrain — a subterranean passage or structure; grotto.
- sporangium — the case or sac in which spores are produced.
- squamiform — shaped like a scale.
- staurolite — a mineral, basic iron aluminum silicate, Fe 2 Al 2 O 7 (SiO 4) 4 (OH), occurring in brown to black prismatic crystals, which are often twinned in the form of a cross.
- stimulator — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- stramonium — jimson weed.