10-letter words containing d, u, r, s
- subordinal — of, relating to, or ranked as a suborder.
- subproduct — a thing produced by labor: products of farm and factory; the product of his thought.
- subsidiary — serving to assist or supplement; auxiliary; supplementary.
- subtrahend — a number that is subtracted from another.
- sudatorium — a hot-air bath for inducing sweating.
- sugar bird — any of various honeycreepers that feed on nectar.
- suit-dress — a costume ensemble for women, consisting of a dress and matching coat or jacket.
- sulfa drug — any of a group of drugs closely related in chemical structure to sulfanilamide, having a bacteriostatic rather than a bacteriocidal effect: used in the treatment of various wounds, burns, and infections.
- sulfhydryl — mercapto.
- summarised — to make a summary of; state or express in a concise form.
- summerised — to prepare (a house, car, etc.) so as to counteract the hot weather of summer: to summerize a house by adding air conditioning.
- summerized — to prepare (a house, car, etc.) so as to counteract the hot weather of summer: to summerize a house by adding air conditioning.
- summertide — summer time
- summerwood — the part of an annual ring of wood, characterized by compact, thick-walled cells, formed during the later part of the growing season.
- sun spider — any predatory, scorpionlike arachnid of the order Solifugae (or Solpugida), having enormously developed mouth pincers and a long body covered with tactile hairs, inhabiting deserts and plains regions in all warm parts of the world except Australia.
- sunderance — to separate; part; divide; sever.
- sunderland — a seaport in Tyne and Wear, in NE England.
- super band — the band of frequencies between 216 and 600 megahertz, used for cable television channels and Citizens Band.
- superadded — to add over and above; join as a further addition; add besides.
- superboard — a wooden board with exceptional properties of some kind
- superceded — supersede.
- supercedes — supersede.
- superdense — having the component parts closely compacted together; crowded or compact: a dense forest; dense population.
- superdrive — (storage) Apple Computer, Inc.'s name for a combined DVD-ROM, DVD-RW, CD-RW drive that appeared in the iMac in 2002.
- superfluid — a fluid that exhibits frictionless flow, very high heat conductivity, and other unusual physical properties, helium below 2.186 K being the only known example.
- supergrade — a high-level rank, Grade 16, 17, or 18, in the federal civil service.
- supermodel — an extremely prominent and successful model who can command very high fees.
- superorder — a category of related orders within a class or subclass.
- superoxide — a compound containing the univalent ion O 2 − .
- superposed — growing or lying directly above another part or organ
- superseded — to replace in power, authority, effectiveness, acceptance, use, etc., as by another person or thing.
- supersound — sound that is inaudible, either because its frequency is too high or because it is too intense to endure
- superspeed — constructed or intended to function at a very high speed.
- supervised — to oversee (a process, work, workers, etc.) during execution or performance; superintend; have the oversight and direction of.
- suppressed — to put an end to the activities of (a person, body of persons, etc.): to suppress the Communist and certain left-leaning parties.
- surefooted — not likely to stumble, slip, or fall.
- surfriding — surfing.
- surge tide — a powerful and often destructive tide that may occur when an abnormally high tide (e.g. at the autumn equinox) coincides with high wind and low atmospheric pressure
- surmounted — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
- surrounded — to enclose on all sides; encompass: She was surrounded by reporters.
- surveilled — to place under surveillance.
- suspenders — Suspenders are a pair of straps that go over someone's shoulders and are fastened to their pants at the front and back to prevent the pants from falling down.
- sutherland — Earl Wilbur, Jr. 1915–74, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1971.
- synandrium — a peculiar fusion of stamens
- synandrous — with united stamens
- tendrilous — a threadlike, leafless organ of climbing plants, often growing in spiral form, which attaches itself to or twines round some other body, so as to support the plant.
- the absurd — the conception of the world, esp in Existentialist thought, as neither designed nor predictable but irrational and meaningless
- thunderous — producing thunder or a loud noise like thunder: thunderous applause.
- transducer — a device that receives a signal in the form of one type of energy and converts it to a signal in another form: A microphone is a transducer that converts acoustic energy into electrical impulses.
- translucid — translucent.