10-letter words containing r, u, n, o
- string out — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- strung out — severely debilitated from alcohol or drugs.
- strung-out — severely debilitated from alcohol or drugs.
- stubbornly — unreasonably obstinate; obstinately unmoving: a stubborn child.
- stupration — an act of ravishing or a violation
- sub-reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
- subcontrol — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
- subjoinder — something subjoined, as an additional comment.
- submersion — to submerge.
- subordinal — of, relating to, or ranked as a suborder.
- 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).
- subversion — an act or instance of subverting.
- succorance — the act of seeking out affectionate care and social support.
- sugar corn — sweet corn.
- sun parlor — a porch or room with many windows exposed to sunshine; sun porch; solarium.
- sunlounger — a reclining chair used when sunbathing
- superation — the action or process of superating, overcoming or surpassing
- superphone — a telephone with a high-speed processor that can perform many of the functions of a computer
- 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
- supertonic — the second tone of a diatonic scale, being the next above the tonic.
- superwoman — a woman of extraordinary or superhuman powers.
- supporting — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- surjection — onto function.
- surmounted — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
- surnominal — relating to surnames
- surrounded — to enclose on all sides; encompass: She was surrounded by reporters.
- suspensory — a supporting bandage, muscle, ligament, etc.
- suturation — the act of suturing
- synandrous — with united stamens
- syncarpous — of the nature of or pertaining to a syncarp.
- synthronus — a combined throne for a bishop and his presbyters
- talk round — If you talk someone round, you persuade them to change their mind so that they agree with you, or agree to do what you want them to do
- tambourine — a small drum consisting of a circular frame with a skin stretched over it and several pairs of metal jingles attached to the frame, played by striking with the knuckles, shaking, and the like.
- tena korua — a Māori greeting to two people
- 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.
- tenpounder — ladyfish.
- thunderbox — a portable boxlike lavatory seat that can be placed over a hole in the ground
- thunderous — producing thunder or a loud noise like thunder: thunderous applause.
- tirocinium — first or early training or experience, usually referring to the military
- 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.
- tonguester — a person who talks endlessly or who gossips
- tourbillon — a device in a mechanical watch which prevents errors due to changes in gravity
- tourmaline — any of a group of silicate minerals of complex composition, containing boron, aluminum, etc., usually black but having various colored, transparent varieties used as gems.
- tournament — a trial of skill in some game, in which competitors play a series of contests: a chess tournament.
- tourniquet — Medicine/Medical, Surgery. any device for arresting bleeding by forcibly compressing a blood vessel, as a bandage tightened by twisting.
- traduction — a transmission or communication