10-letter words containing a, r, i, s, t
- ringmaster — a person in charge of the performances in a circus ring.
- riot squad — a group of police officers having special training and equipment for quelling riots and other public disturbances.
- ritschlian — of or relating to the theology of Albrecht Ritschl (1822–89), who developed a liberal Christian theology and maintained that religious faith is based on value judgments.
- ritualised — to practice ritualism.
- royalistic — relating to a royalist
- rumfustian — a type of spiced nightcap made with beer
- rupestrian — made or found on cave walls or rocks
- rusticator — to go to the country.
- safari hat — brimmed hat worn on wildlife tours
- sailboater — a person who sails a boat
- sailor hat — a hat with a flat round crown and fairly broad brim that is rolled upwards
- saint mary — Christian holy figure
- saintsbury — George Edward Bateman [beyt-muh n] /ˈbeɪt mən/ (Show IPA), 1845–1933, English literary critic and historian.
- salt river — a river flowing W from E Arizona to the Gila River near Phoenix: Roosevelt Dam. 200 miles (322 km) long.
- saltigrade — moving by leaping.
- salzgitter — a city in Lower Saxony, in central Germany, SE of Hanover.
- samarskite — a velvet-black mineral, a complex columbate-tantalate of uranium, cerium, etc., occurring in masses: a minor source of uranium, thorium, and rare-earth oxides.
- sammartini — Giovanni Battista [jaw-vahn-nee baht-tee-stah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni bɑtˈti stɑ/ (Show IPA), 1698–1775, Italian composer and organist.
- san martin — José de [haw-se th e] /hɔˈsɛ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1778–1850, South American general and statesman, born in Argentina: leader in winning independence for Argentina, Peru, and Chile; protector of Peru 1821–22.
- sanatorium — a hospital for the treatment of chronic diseases, as tuberculosis or various nervous or mental disorders.
- sanctifier — to make holy; set apart as sacred; consecrate.
- sand tiger — any of several sharks of the family Odontaspididae, especially Odontaspis taurus, inhabiting shallow waters on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, having sharp, jagged teeth and sometimes dangerous to humans.
- sanitarian — sanitary; clean and wholesome.
- sanitarily — of or relating to health or the conditions affecting health, especially with reference to cleanliness, precautions against disease, etc.
- sanitarist — a sanitarian
- 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
- sanskritic — an Indo-European, Indic language, in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India. Abbreviation: Skt.
- satin spar — a fibrous variety of gypsum having a silky luster, used as a gem.
- satirising — to attack or ridicule with satire.
- satirizing — to attack or ridicule with satire.
- satisfiers — to fulfill the desires, expectations, needs, or demands of (a person, the mind, etc.); give full contentment to: The hearty meal satisfied him.
- 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.
- satyagrahi — an exponent of nonviolent resistance, esp as a form of political protest
- satyriasis — Don Juanism.
- sauntering — to walk with a leisurely gait; stroll: sauntering through the woods.
- saussurite — a mineral aggregate of albite, zoisite, and other calcium aluminum silicates, formed by alteration of plagioclase feldspars in igneous rocks.
- scarlatina — scarlet fever.
- scattering — distributed or occurring here and there at irregular intervals; scattered.
- scaturient — gushing; overflowing.
- scintigram — a paper printout or photographic record indicating the intensity and distribution of radioactivity in tissues after administration of a radioactive tracer.
- sclerotial — a vegetative, resting food-storage body in certain higher fungi, composed of a compact mass of hardened mycelia.
- scratching — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
- scriptoria — a room, as in a monastery, library, or other institution, where manuscripts are stored, read, or copied.
- scriptural — (sometimes initial capital letter) of, relating to, or in accordance with sacred writings, especially the Scriptures.
- sea squirt — any tunicate, especially a sessile ascidian, so called from its habit of contracting its body and ejecting streams of water when disturbed.
- sea trials — a series of trial runs to test the performance of a new ship.
- secretaire — any writing desk resembling a secretary.
- secularist — secular spirit or tendency, especially a system of political or social philosophy that rejects all forms of religious faith and worship.