10-letter words containing a, s, t, u, e
- restaurant — an establishment where meals are served to customers.
- resupinate — bent backward.
- rheumatics — pertaining to or of the nature of rheumatism.
- rheumatism — any disorder of the extremities or back, characterized by pain and stiffness.
- ritualised — to practice ritualism.
- root cause — origin
- rouseabout — an unskilled labourer in a shearing shed
- rump steak — Rump or rump steak is meat cut from the rear end of a cow.
- 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-ouen — a suburb of Paris in N France.
- sanctitude — holiness; saintliness; sanctity.
- sans doute — without doubt; certainly.
- satchelful — the amount a satchel will hold
- satyresque — possessing the qualities of a satyr
- sauce boat — a low, boat-shaped container for serving sauce or gravy, typically having a handle at one end and a long, wide lip at the other end.
- sauerkraut — cabbage cut fine, salted, and allowed to ferment until sour.
- 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.
- scapulated — (of a raven) with white feathers across the scapular region
- scattergun — A scattergun is a gun that fires a lot of small metal balls at the same time.
- scaturient — gushing; overflowing.
- scutellate — having scutes.
- sea return — radar signals that are reflected by a body of water and hamper target identification.
- 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 turtle — any of several large turtles of the families Cheloniidae and Dermochelyidae, widely distributed in tropical and subtropical seas, having the limbs modified into paddlelike flippers: all sea turtles are either threatened or endangered through most of their range because of ocean pollution.
- sea walnut — a comb jelly, as of the genus Mnemiopsis, shaped like a walnut.
- search out — hunt for, seek
- secularist — secular spirit or tendency, especially a system of political or social philosophy that rejects all forms of religious faith and worship.
- secularity — secular views or beliefs; secularism.
- securocrat — a military or police officer who has the power to influence government policy
- 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.
- sepultural — the act of placing in a sepulcher or tomb; burial.
- sequential — characterized by regular sequence of parts.
- sequestral — a fragment of bone that has become necrotic as a result of disease or injury and has separated from the normal bone structure.
- set square — a thin flat piece of plastic, metal, etc, in the shape of a right-angled triangle, used in technical drawing
- shear stud — a stud that transfers shear stress between metal and concrete in composite structural members in which the stud is welded to the metal component
- simulative — to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like): to simulate crisis conditions.
- slate blue — a moderate to dark grayish blue.
- slate-blue — of a dark greyish-blue colour
- 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.
- smarten up — improve appearance
- snakemouth — rose pogonia.
- somersault — an acrobatic movement, either forward or backward, in which the body rolls end over end, making a complete revolution.
- soubresaut — a jump performed with the legs held together and the body erect but slightly curved to the side.