10-letter words containing o, u, s, p
- subcompany — subsidiary company.
- suboctuple — in the proportion or ratio of one to eight
- suboptimal — being below an optimal level or standard.
- subpoenaed — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
- subpontine — of or relating to the Pontine Marshes.
- subpotency — a condition of reduced potency, as of a medication.
- subproblem — any question or matter involving doubt, uncertainty, or difficulty.
- subprocess — a process that is part of a larger process
- subproduct — a thing produced by labor: products of farm and factory; the product of his thought.
- subprogram — procedure (def 4b).
- subproject — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
- 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).
- subspinous — situated beneath the spine's protruding vertebrae or 'bumps'
- subtropics — the region lying between the tropics and temperate lands
- suck up to — to flatter for one's own profit; toady
- sugar soap — an alkaline compound used for cleaning or stripping paint
- sulphonate — a salt or ester of any sulphonic acid containing the ion RSO2O– or the group RSO2O–, R being an organic group
- sulphonium — the hypothetical univalent radical -SH3
- sulphoxide — any compound containing a sulphinyl group (SO) and a hydrocarbon radical
- sulphurous — sulfurous (defs 1, 2).
- sun parlor — a porch or room with many windows exposed to sunshine; sun porch; solarium.
- super bowl — the annual championship football game between the best team of the National Football Conference and that of the American Football Conference.
- superalloy — an alloy, often with a nickel, nickel-iron, or cobalt base, capable of withstanding very high temperatures, used in jet engines, rockets, etc.
- superation — the action or process of superating, overcoming or surpassing
- superblock — an area of city land larger than the usual block, treated according to a unified plan and generally closed to vehicular through traffic.
- superboard — a wooden board with exceptional properties of some kind
- supercargo — a merchant-ship officer who is in charge of the cargo and the commercial concerns of the voyage.
- supercover — an insurance policy with additional benefits
- supergroup — any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation: a group of protesters; a remarkable group of paintings.
- superiorly — higher in station, rank, degree, importance, etc.: a superior officer.
- superjumbo — an extremely large twin-deck jet-propelled airliner that can carry over 500 passengers
- supermacho — extremely macho
- supermicro — the fastest and most powerful type of microcomputer, with capabilities more commonly associated with minicomputers.
- 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 − .
- superphone — a telephone with a high-speed processor that can perform many of the functions of a computer
- superposed — growing or lying directly above another part or organ
- superpower — an extremely powerful nation, especially one capable of influencing international events and the acts and policies of less powerful nations.
- superscout — a highly skilled scout
- supersonic — greater than the speed of sound waves through air.
- supersound — sound that is inaudible, either because its frequency is too high or because it is too intense to endure
- superstock — an exceptionally lucrative investment
- superstore — a very large store, especially one stocking a wide variety of merchandise.
- superstorm — a very severe and widespread storm characterized by record-setting meteorological events and large-scale destruction: The superstorm brought a 15-foot storm surge to the harbor.
- supertonic — the second tone of a diatonic scale, being the next above the tonic.
- supervisor — a person who supervises workers or the work done by others; superintendent.
- superwoman — a woman of extraordinary or superhuman powers.
- supination — rotation of the hand or forearm so that the palmar surface is facing upward (opposed to pronation).
- 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.