10-letter words containing s, a, c, r, i, u
- part music — music, especially vocal music, with parts for two or more independent performers.
- pasticheur — a person who makes, composes, or concocts a pastiche.
- picaresque — pertaining to, characteristic of, or characterized by a form of prose fiction, originally developed in Spain, in which the adventures of an engagingly roguish hero are described in a series of usually humorous or satiric episodes that often depict, in realistic detail, the everyday life of the common people: picaresque novel; picaresque hero.
- precarious — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
- predacious — predatory; rapacious.
- procacious — insolent
- punic wars — three wars (264–241 bc, 218–201 bc, and 149–146 bc), in which Rome crushed Carthaginian power, destroying Carthage itself
- purchasing — buying
- quadratics — a quadratic polynomial or equation.
- quadriceps — a large muscle in front of the thigh, the action of which extends the leg or bends the hip joint.
- quadrisect — to divide (something) into four equal parts.
- race music — blues-based music or jazz by and for African Americans in the 1920s and 1930s, when it was regarded as a distinctive, separate market by the music industry; early jazz or rhythm-and-blues.
- radiculose — having small roots or rhizoids
- recusation — the act of recusing a judge
- requiescat — a wish or prayer for the repose of the dead.
- rheumatics — pertaining to or of the nature of rheumatism.
- rubiaceous — belonging to the Rubiaceae, the madder family of plants.
- rusticator — to go to the country.
- saucerlike — resembling a saucer
- scaturient — gushing; overflowing.
- scriptural — (sometimes initial capital letter) of, relating to, or in accordance with sacred writings, especially the Scriptures.
- sdrucciola — (of rhymes) triple
- sea urchin — any echinoderm of the class Echinoidea, having a somewhat globular or discoid form, and a shell composed of many calcareous plates covered with projecting spines.
- secularism — secular spirit or tendency, especially a system of political or social philosophy that rejects all forms of religious faith and worship.
- secularist — secular spirit or tendency, especially a system of political or social philosophy that rejects all forms of religious faith and worship.
- secularity — secular views or beliefs; secularism.
- secularize — to make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism.
- simulacral — simulacrum.
- simulacrum — a slight, unreal, or superficial likeness or semblance.
- squirarchy — squirearchy.
- squirearch — a member of the squirearchy.
- squirt can — an oilcan with a flexible body that ejects oil when compressed.
- subarticle — an article that forms part of a larger or main article
- subcaliber — noting or pertaining to ammunition of smaller caliber than the gun in which it is used.
- subcalibre — (of a projectile) having a calibre less than that of the firearm from which it is discharged and therefore either fitted with a disc or fired through a tube inserted into the barrel
- subcarbide — a carbide containing less than the normal proportion of carbon.
- subcarrier — a carrier wave used to modify or modulate another carrier wave.
- subcranial — of the area beneath the cranium or skull
- supercilia — the fillet above the cyma of a cornice.
- supragenic — beyond the limits or above the level of genes.
- supraoptic — above the optic chiasm
- suprapubic — above the pubic bone
- surgically — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
- survivance — survival
- testicular — of or relating to the testes.
- track suit — a sweat suit, usually with a long-sleeved jacket and long pants, worn by athletes, especially runners, before and after actual competition or during workouts.
- translucid — translucent.
- trisulcate — having three grooves or furrows
- true basic — (language) A compiled BASIC, by John Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz, requiring no line numbers.
- ultra-scsi — (hardware) An extension of SCSI-2 proposed by a group of manufacturers which doubles the transfer speed of Fast-SCSI to give 20MByte/s on an 8-bit connection and 40MByte/s on a 16-bit connection.