10-letter words containing a, s, u
- acrogynous — having the female reproductive organ arising from the apical cell of the stem, thereby terminating its growth, as certain liverworts.
- acronymous — a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words and pronounced as a separate word, as Wac from Women's Army Corps, OPEC from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or loran from long-range navigation.
- active sun — the sun at a maximum of solar activity, occurring every 11 years.
- actual sin — any sin that a person commits of his own free will and for which he is personally responsible
- actualised — Simple past tense and past participle of actualise.
- actualizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of actualize.
- actualness — The state or quality of being actual.
- actuations — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
- actus reus — a criminal action regarded as a constituent element of a crime, as compared with the state of mind of the perpetrator
- acute dose — a total dose of radiation administered over such a short period that biological recovery is impossible
- ad nauseam — If someone does something ad nauseam, they do it repeatedly and over a long period of time so that it becomes annoying or boring.
- adactylous — possessing no fingers or toes
- adam's cup — pitcher plant.
- adenovirus — any of a group of viruses that can cause upper respiratory diseases in man
- adequacies — Plural form of adequacy.
- adjustable — If something is adjustable, it can be changed to different positions or sizes.
- adjustably — In a way that is adjustable.
- adjustment — An adjustment is a small change that is made to something such as a machine or a way of doing something.
- admeasured — Simple past tense and past participle of admeasure.
- admeasures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of admeasure.
- admixtures — Plural form of admixture.
- adulations — excessive devotion to someone; servile flattery.
- adulterers — Plural form of adulterer.
- adulteress — An adulteress is a woman who commits adultery.
- adulterous — An adulterous relationship is a sexual relationship between a married person and someone they are not married to. An adulterous person is someone who commits adultery.
- adumbrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adumbrate.
- adventures — Plural form of adventure.
- aeriferous — conveying air, as the bronchial tubes.
- aeruginous — bluish-green, like copper rust
- affettuoso — with feeling
- afterhours — occurring, engaged in, or operating after the normal or legal closing time for business: an after-hours drinking club.
- agapanthus — a liliaceous plant, Agapanthus africanus, of southern Africa, having rounded clusters of blue or white funnel-shaped flowers
- agapetus i — Saint, died a.d. 536, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 535–536.
- aids virus — a variable retrovirus that invades and inactivates helper T cells of the immune system and is a cause of AIDS and AIDS-related complex: variants were identified in several laboratories and independently named lymphadenopathy-associated virus (LAV) human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 3 (HTLV-3) and AIDS-related virus (ARV) the name human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) being subsequently proposed by an international taxonomy committee.
- airbrushed — Simple past tense and past participle of airbrush.
- airbrushes — Plural form of airbrush.
- aktyubinsk — city in W Kazakhstan: pop. 248,000
- alabastrum — alabastron.
- alacritous — cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness: We accepted the invitation with alacrity.
- albuminose — Alternative form of albuminous.
- albuminous — of or containing albumin
- alexicacus — an epithet of Apollo, meaning “averter of evil,” in reference to his dispelling a plague that afflicted the Athenian forces in the Peloponnesian War.
- all square — mutually clear of all debts or obligations
- all thumbs — clumsy
- alliaceous — of or relating to Allium, a genus of plants that have a strong onion or garlic smell and often have bulbs: family Alliaceae. The genus occurs in the N hemisphere and includes onion, garlic, leek, chive, and shallot
- allogamous — cross-fertilization in plants (opposed to autogamy).
- allosaurus — any of a genus (Allosaurus) of huge, carnivorous saurischian dinosaurs of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods
- allusively — having reference to something implied or inferred; containing, abounding in, or characterized by allusions.
- almshouses — Plural form of almshouse.
- alphavirus — Any virus of the genus Alphavirus (family Togaviridae).