10-letter words containing r, u
- adulterant — a substance or ingredient that adulterates
- adulterate — If something such as food or drink is adulterated, someone has made its quality worse by adding water or cheaper products to it.
- adulterers — Plural form of adulterer.
- adulteress — An adulteress is a woman who commits adultery.
- adulterine — of or made by adulteration; fake
- adulterize — to commit adultery
- adulterous — An adulterous relationship is a sexual relationship between a married person and someone they are not married to. An adulterous person is someone who commits adultery.
- adumbrated — (comparable) Obscured.
- adumbrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adumbrate.
- adventured — Simple past tense and past participle of adventure.
- adventurer — An adventurer is a person who enjoys going to new, unusual, and exciting places.
- adventures — Plural form of adventure.
- aeriferous — conveying air, as the bronchial tubes.
- aeronautic — relating to air companies
- aeruginous — bluish-green, like copper rust
- afro-cuban — of or relating to a type of jazz influenced by Cuban variants of African rhythms
- afterguard — a sailor or group of sailors stationed on the poop to attend to the aft sails
- afterhours — occurring, engaged in, or operating after the normal or legal closing time for business: an after-hours drinking club.
- agricultor — (archaic) An agriculturist; a farmer.
- aids virus — a variable retrovirus that invades and inactivates helper T cells of the immune system and is a cause of AIDS and AIDS-related complex: variants were identified in several laboratories and independently named lymphadenopathy-associated virus (LAV) human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 3 (HTLV-3) and AIDS-related virus (ARV) the name human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) being subsequently proposed by an international taxonomy committee.
- air bubble — a small pocket of air in a liquid, glass, metal etc
- air guitar — an imaginary guitar played while miming to rock music
- air hunger — deep, rapid, and labored breathing caused by an increased respiratory drive due to abnormally low blood oxygen levels, as in severe heart failure or asthma.
- airbrushed — Simple past tense and past participle of airbrush.
- airbrushes — Plural form of airbrush.
- al-bukhari — Muhammad ibn Ismaʿil [ib-uh n is-mah-eel] /ˈɪb ən ɪsˈmɑ il/ (Show IPA), a.d. 810–870, a collector of the Hadith.
- alabastrum — alabastron.
- alacritous — cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness: We accepted the invitation with alacrity.
- all square — mutually clear of all debts or obligations
- all-around — You say all around to indicate that something affects all parts of a situation or all members of a group.
- allosaurus — any of a genus (Allosaurus) of huge, carnivorous saurischian dinosaurs of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods
- allurement — fascination; charm.
- alluringly — very attractive or tempting; enticing; seductive.
- almucantar — a circle on the celestial sphere parallel to the horizontal plane
- alphavirus — Any virus of the genus Alphavirus (family Togaviridae).
- altruistic — If your behaviour or motives are altruistic, you show concern for the happiness and welfare of other people rather than for yourself.
- amaranthus — Any of the genus Amaranthus; an amaranth.
- amarynceus — a king of Messene who ruled Elis with Augeas and who was slain by Nestor in a war against the Pylians.
- amateurish — If you describe something as amateurish, you think that it is not skilfully made or done.
- amateurism — Amateurism is the belief that people should take part in sports and other activities as a hobby, for pleasure, rather than as a job, for money.
- amatorious — amatorial
- ambulacral — one of the radial areas in an echinoderm, as the sea urchin, bearing the tube feet by which the creature moves.
- ambulacrum — any of five radial bands on the ventral surface of echinoderms, such as the starfish and sea urchin, on which the tube feet are situated
- ambulatory — of, relating to, or designed for walking
- ambuscader — a person waiting in ambush; an ambusher
- aminosugar — a monosaccharide with an amino or substituted amino group in place of a nonglycosidic hydroxyl group.
- amphiaraus — a hero who joined the Seven against Thebes, although he knew that his death was fated: deified after death.
- amphigouri — amphigory.
- amphimarus — a son of Poseidon, sometimes believed to be the father, by Urania, of the poet Linus.
- amyl group — any of several univalent, isomeric groups having the formula C 5 H 11 –, whose derivatives are found in fusel oil, fruit extracts, etc.