10-letter words containing r, u, n, o
- run for it — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- run out of — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- run out on — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- rune-stone — a stone bearing one or more runic inscriptions.
- rust joint — (in plumbing and metalwork) a watertight joint made between two pieces by rusting them together.
- rusty iron — (jargon, hardware) Synonym tired iron. It has been claimed that this is the inevitable fate of water MIPS.
- ruthenious — containing bivalent ruthenium.
- sanatorium — a hospital for the treatment of chronic diseases, as tuberculosis or various nervous or mental disorders.
- sandgrouse — any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young.
- sanitorium — a facility for housing patients with long-term illnesses
- saturation — the act or process of saturating.
- schongauer — Martin [mahr-tn;; German mahr-teen] /ˈmɑr tn;; German ˈmɑr tin/ (Show IPA), c1430–91, German engraver and painter.
- school run — The school run is the journey that parents make each day when they take their children to school and bring them home from school.
- scornfully — full of scorn; derisive; contemptuous: He smiled in a scornful way.
- screen out — eliminate
- scroungers — to borrow (a small amount or item) with no intention of repaying or returning it: to scrounge a cigarette.
- scrubwoman — a woman hired to clean a place; charwoman.
- scruncheon — (in Newfoundland) a small crisp piece of fried pork fat
- scrutinous — strict, thorough
- scunthorpe — a town in E England, in North Lincolnshire unitary authority, Lincolnshire: developed rapidly after the discovery of local iron ore in the late 19th century; iron and steel industries have declined. Pop: 72 660 (2001)
- second-run — designating or of:
- send round — to cause, permit, or enable to go: to send a messenger; They sent their son to college.
- serotinous — late in occurring, developing, or flowering.
- shotgunner — a person who is skilled with a shotgun
- showground — outdoor events venue
- simon pure — real; genuine: a simon-pure accent.
- simon-pure — real; genuine: a simon-pure accent.
- sinistrous — ill-omened; unlucky; disastrous.
- sit around — be idle, lounge about
- slanderous — defamation; calumny: rumors full of slander.
- snow crust — a relatively hard, upper layer or film of ice or compacted snow on a snow surface.
- snow under — Meteorology. a precipitation in the form of ice crystals, mainly of intricately branched, hexagonal form and often agglomerated into snowflakes, formed directly from the freezing of the water vapor in the air. Compare ice crystals, snow grains, snow pellets.
- sojourners — a temporary stay: during his sojourn in Paris.
- sojourning — a temporary stay: during his sojourn in Paris.
- soniferous — conveying or producing sound.
- sonorously — giving out or capable of giving out a sound, especially a deep, resonant sound, as a thing or place: a sonorous cavern.
- souari nut — the large, edible, oily nut of a tall tree, Caryocar nuciferum, of tropical South America.
- soundboard — sounding board.
- soundproof — impervious to sound.
- soundtrack — the narrow band on one or both sides of a motion-picture film on which sound is recorded.
- sourdeline — a type of bagpipe
- souterrain — a subterranean passage or structure; grotto.
- southerner — a native or inhabitant of the south.
- southernly — southerly.
- sporangium — the case or sac in which spores are produced.
- spun rayon — yarn produced by spinning short, uniform lengths of rayon filaments into a continuous strand.
- squadronal — belonging or relating to a squadron or squadrons
- square one — a starting point; initial stage or step: If this plan fails, we'll have to go back to square one.
- stormbound — confined, detained, or isolated by storms: a stormbound ship; a stormbound village.
- stramonium — jimson weed.