10-letter words containing r, u, i, n, s
- sinistrous — ill-omened; unlucky; disastrous.
- sir edmund — Clara, 1821–1912, U.S. philanthropist who organized the American Red Cross in 1881.
- sit around — be idle, lounge about
- skysurfing — a sport that is similar to skydiving but uses a special lightweight board (skyboard) attached to the feet and usually equipped with a parachute.
- slumbering — to sleep, especially lightly; doze; drowse.
- sojourning — a temporary stay: during his sojourn in Paris.
- soniferous — conveying or producing sound.
- souari nut — the large, edible, oily nut of a tall tree, Caryocar nuciferum, of tropical South America.
- sourdeline — a type of bagpipe
- souterrain — a subterranean passage or structure; grotto.
- sparganium — a marsh plant
- spinnerule — part of the spinneret of a spider
- sporangium — the case or sac in which spores are produced.
- springbuck — springbok.
- spur veins — the veins of a horse that can be damaged by a rider's spurs
- sputtering — the act or sound of sputtering.
- square tin — a medium-sized loaf having a crusty top, baked in a tin with a square base
- squireling — a landowner of a small estate.
- squirt can — an oilcan with a flexible body that ejects oil when compressed.
- squirt gun — spray gun.
- staudinger — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1881–1965, German chemist: Nobel prize 1953.
- stramonium — jimson weed.
- string out — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- struggling — to contend with an adversary or opposing force.
- stupration — an act of ravishing or a violation
- sturdiness — strongly built; stalwart; robust: sturdy young athletes.
- subcranial — of the area beneath the cranium or skull
- subintrant — having attacks or fits one after the other
- subjoinder — something subjoined, as an additional comment.
- submariner — a member of the crew of a submarine.
- submarines — a vessel that can be submerged and navigated under water, usually built for warfare and armed with torpedoes or guided missiles.
- submersion — to submerge.
- subnitrate — a basic salt of nitric acid.
- subordinal — of, relating to, or ranked as a suborder.
- subphrenic — underneath the diaphragm
- 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.
- subversion — an act or instance of subverting.
- sugar pine — a tall pine, Pinus lambertiana, of California, Oregon, etc., having cones 20 inches (51 cm) long.
- sultriness — oppressively hot and close or moist; sweltering: a sultry day.
- sun pillar — a halo phenomenon in which a vertical streak of light appears above and below the sun, believed to be caused by the reflection of sunlight by ice crystals with vertical axes.
- sun spider — any predatory, scorpionlike arachnid of the order Solifugae (or Solpugida), having enormously developed mouth pincers and a long body covered with tactile hairs, inhabiting deserts and plains regions in all warm parts of the world except Australia.
- superation — the action or process of superating, overcoming or surpassing
- superbeing — the fact of existing; existence (as opposed to nonexistence).
- superbrain — (computer) A personal computer released in 1980 by Intertec. The Superbrain had two Z80A microprocessors running at 4 MHz, one for the main processing and the other for peripheral activities. It had an integrated keyboard and display. It was sold with the CP/M operating system, Microsoft Basic, an 8080 assembler and Microsoft Cobol 74. The base model, the "Superbrain 10", had no drives, only a network connection. Other models added one or two 5" floppy disc units. The "Jr" had 170K drives (single-sided), the "QD" had 340 KB drives (double-sided) and the "SD" had 780k. Intertec did not sell or support a hard drive or an S-100 bus for these machines. The network version of the SuperBrain was called CompuStar. The network was a large gray parallel cable. CompuStar had three "file servers" that accepted up to 255 machines. These were the "DSS-10" with a 10MB 8" Winchester drive; the "CDC" with 96MB consisting of 80MB fixed and a 16MB removable platter; and the "Priam" with a 144MB 14" platter winchester. Intertec manufactured the controllers for the last two and an enclosure and power supply for the Priam. CDC had to go on-site to install the 96MB. The SuperBrain was succeeded in 1982 by the SuperBrain II.
- supergiant — Astronomy. supergiant star.
- superliner — an ocean liner of relatively great size or speed.
- 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.
- supersonic — greater than the speed of sound waves through air.