10-letter words containing n, i, t, r, a
- stannaries — a tin-mining region or district.
- star anise — Also called Chinese anise. a shrub or small tree, Illicium verum, of China, having white flowers that turn purple and bearing anise-scented, star-shaped clusters of carminative fruit.
- star point — a common junction connected to the ends of windings of a polyphase electrical device or system of devices
- stargazing — to gaze at or observe the stars.
- startingly — in sudden brief snatches, or with a sudden nervous jump or start
- starvation — the act or state of starving; condition of being starved.
- starveling — a person, animal, or plant that is starving.
- stationary — standing still; not moving.
- stationery — writing paper.
- staudinger — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1881–1965, German chemist: Nobel prize 1953.
- steam iron — an electric iron with a water chamber, which emits steam onto the fabric or garment being ironed.
- stentorian — very loud or powerful in sound: a stentorian voice.
- sternalgia — pain occurring in or around the sternum
- sternalgic — relating to or having sternalgia
- stewarding — a person who manages another's property or financial affairs; one who administers anything as the agent of another or others.
- sticharion — a white tunic of silk or linen, corresponding to the alb, worn by deacons, priests, and bishops.
- stigmarian — belonging to, resembling, or containing fossils of the genus Sigillaria
- stracchino — a soft cheese from North Italy
- straggling — to stray from the road, course, or line of march.
- straighten — make straight
- strainedly — in a strained manner
- strainless — to draw tight or taut, especially to the utmost tension; stretch to the full: to strain a rope.
- straitened — to put into difficulties, especially financial ones: His obligations had straitened him.
- stramonium — jimson weed.
- strandline — a mark left by the high tide or a line of seaweed and other debris washed onto the beach by the tide
- strangling — an incident in which someone is strangled
- strapontin — a seat which is folded down to sit on
- stravaging — Scot., Irish, and North England. to wander aimlessly.
- stravinsky — Igor Fëdorovich [ee-gawr fyaw-duh-roh-vich;; Russian ee-guh r fyaw-duh-ruh-vyich] /ˈi gɔr ˌfyɔ dəˈroʊ vɪtʃ;; Russian ˈi gər ˈfyɔ də rə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1882–1971, U.S. composer, born in Russia.
- straw wine — a usually rich or sweet wine produced from grapes partially dried on the vine or picked and dried in the sun on a bed of straw or reeds.
- streamline — a teardrop line of contour offering the least possible resistance to a current of air, water, etc.
- streamling — a small stream
- strickland — William, 1787–1854, U.S. architect and engineer.
- string bag — an openwork bag made of string, especially one with handles.
- stringbean — any of various kinds of bean, as the green bean, the unripe pods of which are used as food, usually after stripping off the fibrous thread along the side.
- stringhalt — a nerve disorder in horses, causing exaggerated flexing movements of the hind legs in walking.
- stupration — an act of ravishing or a violation
- subintrant — having attacks or fits one after the other
- subnitrate — a basic salt of nitric acid.
- subterrain — a cave or subterranean room.
- 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.
- suturation — the act of suturing
- suzerainty — the position or authority of a suzerain.
- symmetrian — an advocate of symmetry
- syndicator — a person who establishes a syndicate
- tagliarini — egg noodles cut in long, flat, slender pieces, narrower than tagliatelle.
- tall drink — a beverage consisting of liquor and a sparkling soda, fruit juice, or the like, to which may be added other ingredients, served in a tall glass, usually with ice.
- tambourine — a small drum consisting of a circular frame with a skin stretched over it and several pairs of metal jingles attached to the frame, played by striking with the knuckles, shaking, and the like.