10-letter words containing a, u, s, p
- sun parlor — a porch or room with many windows exposed to sunshine; sun porch; solarium.
- sun pillar — a halo phenomenon in which a vertical streak of light appears above and below the sun, believed to be caused by the reflection of sunlight by ice crystals with vertical axes.
- super band — the band of frequencies between 216 and 600 megahertz, used for cable television channels and Citizens Band.
- superacute — sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain.
- superadded — to add over and above; join as a further addition; add besides.
- superagent — an expert or highly effective agent, esp of a sports player or actor
- superalloy — an alloy, often with a nickel, nickel-iron, or cobalt base, capable of withstanding very high temperatures, used in jet engines, rockets, etc.
- superaltar — a consecrated portable stone slab for use on an unconsecrated altar
- superation — the action or process of superating, overcoming or surpassing
- superboard — a wooden board with exceptional properties of some kind
- superbrain — (computer) A personal computer released in 1980 by Intertec. The Superbrain had two Z80A microprocessors running at 4 MHz, one for the main processing and the other for peripheral activities. It had an integrated keyboard and display. It was sold with the CP/M operating system, Microsoft Basic, an 8080 assembler and Microsoft Cobol 74. The base model, the "Superbrain 10", had no drives, only a network connection. Other models added one or two 5" floppy disc units. The "Jr" had 170K drives (single-sided), the "QD" had 340 KB drives (double-sided) and the "SD" had 780k. Intertec did not sell or support a hard drive or an S-100 bus for these machines. The network version of the SuperBrain was called CompuStar. The network was a large gray parallel cable. CompuStar had three "file servers" that accepted up to 255 machines. These were the "DSS-10" with a 10MB 8" Winchester drive; the "CDC" with 96MB consisting of 80MB fixed and a 16MB removable platter; and the "Priam" with a 144MB 14" platter winchester. Intertec manufactured the controllers for the last two and an enclosure and power supply for the Priam. CDC had to go on-site to install the 96MB. The SuperBrain was succeeded in 1982 by the SuperBrain II.
- supercargo — a merchant-ship officer who is in charge of the cargo and the commercial concerns of the voyage.
- supercilia — the fillet above the cyma of a cornice.
- superclass — a category of related classes within a phylum or subphylum.
- superclean — exceptionally clean
- superexalt — to exalt further; to exalt or raise above others or above a previous position
- superfecta — a type of bet, especially on horse races, in which the bettor must select the first four finishers in exact order.
- superflack — an extremely competent, successful press agent
- supergiant — Astronomy. supergiant star.
- supergrade — a high-level rank, Grade 16, 17, or 18, in the federal civil service.
- supergrass — criminal informant
- superheavy — Chemistry, Physics. pertaining to any of a series of elements having an atomic number greater than 103.
- superhuman — above or beyond what is human; having a higher nature or greater powers than humans have: a superhuman being.
- superjanet — An initiative started in 1989, under the Computer Board, with the aim of developing of a national broadband network to support UK higher education and research. The preparatory work culminated in 1992 with the award of a contract worth 18M pounds to British Telecom to provide networking services over a four year period that extends to March 1997. The BT contract will provide a national network with two components: a high speed, configurable bandwidth network serving up to 16 sites, initially using PDH to be replaced with SDH, and a high speed switched data service (SMDS) serving 50 or more sites. The primary role of the PDH/SDH component will be to support the development and deployment of an ATM network. These components will be complemented by several high performance Metropolitan Area Networks each serving several closely located sites. The aim is to provide, within the first year of the project, a pervasive network capable of supporting a large and diverse user community. The network has two parts, an IP data network and an ATM network, both operating at 34Mbit/s. Early in August 1993 the pilot IP network was transferred to full service and was configured to provide a trunk network for JIPS, the JANET IP Service. In November 1993 work was well advanced on the next phase which aims to extend SuperJANET to a large number of sites. The pilot four site ATM network will be extended to serve twelve sites and will expand the scope of the video network. The principal vehicle used for the expansion of the data network will be the SMDS service provided by BT. Most of the work associated with the development of this phase is expected to be completed by the end of March 1994.
- superlarge — extremely large
- superlunar — situated above or beyond the moon.
- supermacho — extremely macho
- supernanny — an expert who advises parents on how to deal with badly-behaved children
- superpaint — (graphics) A pioneering graphics program and framebuffer computer system developed by Richard Shoup at Xerox PARC. Design started in 1972 and the system produced its first stable image in April 1973. SuperPaint was one of the first computers used for creative work, video editing and animation, all which would become major sections within the entertainment industry and major components of industrial design. SuperPaint had a graphical user interface and could capture images from video input or combine them with digital data. SuperPaint was the first program with features such as changing hue, saturation and value, a colour palette, custom polygons and lines, virtual paintbrushes and pencils, auto-filling of images and anti-aliasing.
- superplane — an extremely large or fast aeroplane
- supersaver — a specially reduced fare, as for passengers reserving tickets in advance or traveling during off-peak periods.
- superscale — on a very large scale
- supersharp — extremely sharp
- supersmart — exceptionally smart
- superstate — a state or a governing power presiding over states subordinated to it.
- superwoman — a woman of extraordinary or superhuman powers.
- supination — rotation of the hand or forearm so that the palmar surface is facing upward (opposed to pronation).
- supplanted — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
- supplanter — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
- supplejack — a strong, pliant cane or walking stick.
- suppliance — appeal; entreaty; plea; supplication: He knelt in an attitude of suppliance.
- suppliancy — suppliance2 .
- suppliants — a tragedy (c463 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
- supplicant — supplicating.
- supplicate — to pray humbly; make humble and earnest entreaty or petition.
- supposable — to assume (something), as for the sake of argument or as part of a proposition or theory: Suppose the distance to be one mile.
- supposably — to assume (something), as for the sake of argument or as part of a proposition or theory: Suppose the distance to be one mile.
- supragenic — beyond the limits or above the level of genes.
- supralunar — beyond the moon
- supraoptic — above the optic chiasm