10-letter words containing e, i, n, s, t, u
- sensuality — sensual nature: the sensuality of Keats's poetry.
- septennium — a period or cycle of seven years
- 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.
- sequential — characterized by regular sequence of parts.
- serotinous — late in occurring, developing, or flowering.
- setting-up — the establishment or creation of something
- shuttering — a solid or louvered movable cover for a window.
- single out — only one in number; one only; unique; sole: a single example.
- single-cut — noting a file having a series of parallel cutting ridges in one direction only.
- sluttiness — the state of being slutty
- sound bite — a brief, striking remark or statement excerpted from an audiotape or videotape for insertion in a broadcast news story.
- souterrain — a subterranean passage or structure; grotto.
- sputtering — the act or sound of sputtering.
- square tin — a medium-sized loaf having a crusty top, baked in a tin with a square base
- squinteyed — squinting
- staudinger — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1881–1965, German chemist: Nobel prize 1953.
- stettinius — Edward Reilley [rahy-lee] /ˈraɪ li/ (Show IPA), 1900–49, U.S. industrialist: secretary of state 1944–45.
- stuffiness — close; poorly ventilated: a stuffy room.
- stunt kite — a kite held by two hands and having two lines
- stupefying — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
- stupidness — lacking ordinary quickness and keenness of mind; dull.
- sturdiness — strongly built; stalwart; robust: sturdy young athletes.
- subcabinet — a group of advisers ranking below the cabinet level, chosen by a chief executive usually from members of the various executive departments.
- subjecting — that which forms a basic matter of thought, discussion, investigation, etc.: a subject of conversation.
- subjection — the act of subjecting.
- submediant — the sixth tone of a diatonic scale, being midway between the subdominant and the upper tonic.
- subnitrate — a basic salt of nitric acid.
- subpontine — of or relating to the Pontine Marshes.
- subreption — Canon Law. a concealment of the pertinent facts in a petition, as for dispensation or favor, that in certain cases nullifies the grant. Compare obreption (def 1).
- subroutine — an instruction sequence in a machine or assembly language program that can be prewritten and referred to as often as needed. Compare procedure (def 4a).
- subsection — a part or division of a section.
- subsistent — subsisting, existing, or continuing in existence.
- subterrain — a cave or subterranean room.
- subvention — a grant of money, as by a government or some other authority, in aid or support of some institution or undertaking, especially in connection with science or the arts.
- sufficient — adequate for the purpose; enough: sufficient proof; sufficient protection.
- suggesting — to mention or introduce (an idea, proposition, plan, etc.) for consideration or possible action: The architect suggested that the building be restored.
- suggestion — the act of suggesting.
- sultriness — oppressively hot and close or moist; sweltering: a sultry day.
- sunsetting — the act or an instance of applying a sunset clause
- superation — the action or process of superating, overcoming or surpassing
- supergiant — Astronomy. supergiant star.
- 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.
- supertonic — the second tone of a diatonic scale, being the next above the tonic.
- suppletion — the use in inflection or derivation of an allomorph that is not related in form to the primary allomorph of a morpheme, as the use of better as the comparative of good.
- sure thing — something that is or is supposed to be a certain success, as a bet or a business venture: He thinks that real estate is a sure thing.
- surfeiting — excess; an excessive amount: a surfeit of speechmaking.
- surjection — onto function.
- suscipient — a recipient
- suspecting — to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof: to suspect a person of murder.
- sustention — the act of sustaining.