10-letter words containing n, u, r, i, s, t
- 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).
- subterrain — a cave or subterranean room.
- sultriness — oppressively hot and close or moist; sweltering: a sultry day.
- 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.
- supporting — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- 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.
- suturation — the act of suturing
- suzerainty — the position or authority of a suzerain.
- tarquinius — (Lucius Tarquinius Priscus) died 578 b.c, king of Rome 616–578.
- 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.
- tenebrious — dark; gloomy; obscure.
- thrustings — the white whey that is hand-pressed out of the curd and from which butter is often made
- titanosaur — any amphibious plant-eating dinosaur of the genus Titanosaurus, from the Cretaceous Period, having a long, thin neck and a long, whiplike tail.
- tolu resin — tolu.
- translucid — translucent.
- trichinous — pertaining to or of the nature of trichinosis.
- trousering — any cloth suitable for trousers
- trustiness — able to be trusted or relied on; trustworthy; reliable.
- truthiness — the quality of seeming to be true according to one's intuition, opinion, or perception without regard to logic, factual evidence, or the like: the growing trend of truthiness as opposed to truth.
- turfskiing — the sport of skiing down grass slopes on skis outfitted with rollers.
- turkestani — of or relating to the central Asian region of Turkestan or its inhabitants
- ultrasonic — of, relating to, or utilizing ultrasound.
- unactorish — not resembling or characteristic of actors or acting
- unartistic — not conforming to the standards of art; not aesthetically appealing: The architecture was crude and unartistic.
- unchristen — unchristian
- uncloister — to free from confinement of any kind
- undershirt — a collarless, usually pullover undergarment for the torso, usually of cotton and either sleeveless and low-cut or with sleeves, worn chiefly by men and children.
- undersight — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
- underskirt — a skirt, as a petticoat, worn under another skirt or a dress.
- underwaist — a blouse worn under another.
- unhistoric — not famous or important in history
- uninterest — lack of interest; indifference.
- uniseriate — arranged in a single row or line.
- unit trust — investment trust
- university — an institution of learning of the highest level, having a college of liberal arts and a program of graduate studies together with several professional schools, as of theology, law, medicine, and engineering, and authorized to confer both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Continental European universities usually have only graduate or professional schools.
- unmortised — not mortised
- unpriestly — not befitting a priest
- unresisted — not resisted or opposed; not encountering resistance
- unrespited — allowing no respite, rest, or temporary relief
- unsanitary — not sanitary; unhealthy or unhealthful; tending to harbor or spread disease: unsanitary living conditions.
- unscripted — not scripted; lacking a script: an unscripted idea for a movie.
- unsistered — having no sister
- unsisterly — not sisterly
- unspirited — unanimated; lacking spirit