10-letter words containing i, r, u, s
- brusquerie — brusqueness; curtness
- burns unit — a section of a hospital in which those with serious burns are treated
- burnsville — a city in SE Minnesota.
- bursarship — a scholarship or grant awarded esp in Scottish and New Zealand schools, universities etc
- burst into — If you burst into tears, laughter, or song, you suddenly begin to cry, laugh, or sing.
- burushaski — a language of NW Kashmir, not known to be related to any other language.
- bush shirt — bush jacket.
- butlership — the skills of a butler
- butterfish — an eel-like blennioid food fish, Pholis gunnellus, occurring in North Atlantic coastal regions: family Pholidae (gunnels). It has a slippery scaleless golden brown skin with a row of black spots along the base of the long dorsal fin
- c terminus — the carboxyl end of a protein molecule.
- capricious — Someone who is capricious often changes their mind unexpectedly.
- capsorubin — (organic compound) A di-hydroxy, keto carotenoid, which, together with capsanthin, constitutes the red pigment of paprika.
- carmustine — a toxic nitrosurea, C 5 H 9 Cl 2 N 3 O 2 , used in the treatment of a wide range of tumors.
- carthusian — a member of an austere monastic order founded by Saint Bruno in 1084 near Grenoble, France
- casuarinas — Plural form of casuarina.
- cauterised — Simple past tense and past participle of cauterise.
- cauterizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cauterize.
- cautioners — Plural form of cautioner.
- celebrious — (obsolete) famous.
- celeritous — (rare) Swift, speedy, fast.
- censorious — If you describe someone as censorious, you do not like the way they strongly disapprove of and criticize someone else's behaviour.
- centauries — Plural form of centaury.
- centurions — Plural form of centurion.
- ceriferous — producing or bearing wax
- certitudes — Plural form of certitude.
- ceruminous — earwax.
- cherubfish — a brilliantly colored butterflyfish, Centropyge argi, found in the West Indies: kept in home aquariums.
- chi-square — an inferential statistic common in survey research
- chivalrous — A chivalrous man is polite, kind, and unselfish, especially towards women.
- choreutics — a system that analyzes form in movement, developed by Rudolf von Laban (1879–1958), Hungarian choreographer and dance theorist.
- choriambus — choriamb.
- chrysippus — 280–209? b.c, Greek Stoic philosopher.
- churlishly — In a churlish manner.
- churnalism — a type of journalism that relies on reusing existing material such as press releases and wire service reports instead of original research, esp as a result of an increased demand for news content
- circuities — Plural form of circuity.
- circuitous — A circuitous route is long and complicated rather than simple and direct.
- circulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circulate.
- circumcise — If a boy or man is circumcised, the loose skin at the end of his penis is cut off.
- circumfuse — to pour or spread (a liquid, powder, etc) around
- circumpose — to position around, or within an encircled place
- clustering — cluster
- coiffurist — a person who styles hair, especially for women.
- coinsuring — Present participle of coinsure.
- colourings — Plural form of colouring.
- commissure — a band of tissue linking two parts or organs, such as the nervous tissue connecting the right and left sides of the brain in vertebrates
- compursion — the act of contracting the mouth into a small rounded shape
- configures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of configure.
- coniferous — A coniferous forest or wood is made up of conifers.
- consortium — A consortium is a group of people or firms who have agreed to co-operate with each other.
- construing — to give the meaning or intention of; explain; interpret.