10-letter words containing o, u, s, t
- pulsometer — a pulsimeter.
- pultaceous — resembling pap
- pultrusion — a process for manufacturing reinforced plastic products in which a bundle of glass fibres is pulled through a resin bath and then through a heated die to shape the resin
- pumy stone — a piece of pumice stone
- push about — to bully; keep telling (a person) what to do in a bossy manner
- pushbutton — A pushbutton machine or process is controlled by means of buttons or switches.
- pussy-toes — any of various woolly composite plants of the genus Antennaria, having small white or grayish flower heads.
- put across — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- put to sea — the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
- put to use — to use; find a use for
- pyrolusite — a common mineral, manganese dioxide, MnO 2 , the principal ore of manganese, used in various manufactures, as a decolorizer of brown or green tints in glass, and as a depolarizer in dry-cell batteries.
- quantasome — any of numerous particles in a chloroplast, part of the thylakoid and functioning in photosynthesis.
- queen post — either of a pair of timbers or posts extending vertically upward from the tie beam of a roof truss or the like, one on each side of the center.
- queenstown — former name of Cóbh.
- quernstone — Either of a pair of stones used for grinding material by hand.
- questioned — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
- questionee — a person who is questioned
- questioner — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
- quinestrol — a synthetic estrogen, C 2 5 H 3 2 O 2 , used in oral contraceptives.
- quodlibets — Plural form of quodlibet.
- quoin post — the vertical post at the side of a lock gate, about which the gate swings
- quotations — Plural form of quotation.
- quotatious — using or involving many quotations
- quotidians — Plural form of quotidian.
- raconteurs — Plural form of raconteur.
- raconteuse — a woman who is skilled in relating stories and anecdotes interestingly.
- reaccustom — to familiarize by custom or use; habituate: to accustom oneself to cold weather.
- reconquest — the act or state of conquering or the state of being conquered; vanquishment.
- recusation — the act of recusing a judge
- rediscount — to discount again.
- reptilious — like a reptile, resembling or characteristic of a reptile
- requestion — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
- resolutely — firmly resolved or determined; set in purpose or opinion: Her parents wanted her to marry, but she was focused on her education and remained resolute.
- resolution — a formal expression of opinion or intention made, usually after voting, by a formal organization, a legislature, a club, or other group. Compare concurrent resolution, joint resolution.
- resolutive — having the ability to dissolve or terminate.
- restitutor — a person who makes restitution
- resumption — the act of resuming; a reassumption, as of something previously granted.
- retrovirus — any of a family of single-stranded RNA viruses having a helical envelope and containing an enzyme that allows for a reversal of genetic transcription, from RNA to DNA rather than the usual DNA to RNA, the newly transcribed viral DNA being incorporated into the host cell's DNA strand for the production of new RNA retroviruses: the family includes the AIDS virus and certain oncogene-carrying viruses implicated in various cancers.
- reunionist — a person who advocates the reunion of the Anglican Church with the Roman Catholic Church.
- ring shout — a group dance of West African origin introduced into parts of the southern U.S. by black revivalists, performed by shuffling counterclockwise in a circle while answering shouts of a preacher with corresponding shouts, and held to be, in its vigorous antiphonal patterns, a source in the development of jazz.
- ring-shout — a group dance of West African origin introduced into parts of the southern U.S. by black revivalists, performed by shuffling counterclockwise in a circle while answering shouts of a preacher with corresponding shouts, and held to be, in its vigorous antiphonal patterns, a source in the development of jazz.
- riot squad — a group of police officers having special training and equipment for quelling riots and other public disturbances.
- robustious — rough, rude, or boisterous.
- robustness — strong and healthy; hardy; vigorous: a robust young man; a robust faith; a robust mind.
- roisterous — to act in a swaggering, boisterous, or uproarious manner.
- root cause — origin
- rouseabout — an unskilled labourer in a shearing shed
- roustabout — a wharf laborer or deck hand, as on the Mississippi River.
- routinised — to develop into a regular procedure.
- roysterous — boisterous