10-letter words containing s, i, l, u, r
- squirelike — like a squire, or like the behaviour of a squire
- squireling — a landowner of a small estate.
- squirreled — any of numerous arboreal, bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Sciurus, of the family Sciuridae.
- squirrelly — eccentric; flighty.
- staurolite — a mineral, basic iron aluminum silicate, Fe 2 Al 2 O 7 (SiO 4) 4 (OH), occurring in brown to black prismatic crystals, which are often twinned in the form of a cross.
- stimulator — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- stridulate — to produce a shrill, grating sound, as a cricket does, by rubbing together certain parts of the body; shrill.
- stridulous — Also, stridulant. making or having a harsh or grating sound.
- strip club — strip joint.
- struggling — to contend with an adversary or opposing force.
- 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
- subcranial — of the area beneath the cranium or skull
- subfebrile — pertaining to or marked by a temperature slightly above normal.
- subfertile — less than normally fertile
- suborbital — (of a spacecraft) not in orbit; not achieving an altitude and velocity resulting in a ballistic trajectory circling the earth at least once.
- subordinal — of, relating to, or ranked as a suborder.
- sugarallie — liquorice
- sulphurise — to combine, treat, or impregnate with sulfur.
- sulphurize — to combine or treat with sulphur or a sulphur compound
- sultriness — oppressively hot and close or moist; sweltering: a sultry day.
- summerlike — like or characteristic of summer; summery: a spell of summerlike showers.
- 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.
- supercilia — the fillet above the cyma of a cornice.
- superelite — (often used with a plural verb) the choice or best of anything considered collectively, as of a group or class of persons.
- superfluid — a fluid that exhibits frictionless flow, very high heat conductivity, and other unusual physical properties, helium below 2.186 K being the only known example.
- superhelix — a coil formed by intertwined helical DNA or by protein chains.
- superiorly — higher in station, rank, degree, importance, etc.: a superior officer.
- superlight — extremely light
- superliner — an ocean liner of relatively great size or speed.
- supertitle — (especially in opera production) a translation of a segment of the libretto or other text or sometimes a brief summary of the plot projected onto a screen above the stage during a performance.
- supravital — pertaining to or involving a staining method for a preparation of living cells.
- surgically — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
- surmisable — to think or infer without certain or strong evidence; conjecture; guess.
- surnominal — relating to surnames
- surplusing — something that remains above what is used or needed.
- surrealism — a style of art and literature developed principally in the 20th century, stressing the subconscious or nonrational significance of imagery arrived at by automatism or the exploitation of chance effects, unexpected juxtapositions, etc.
- surrealist — a style of art and literature developed principally in the 20th century, stressing the subconscious or nonrational significance of imagery arrived at by automatism or the exploitation of chance effects, unexpected juxtapositions, etc.
- surreality — of, relating to, or characteristic of surrealism, an artistic and literary style; surrealistic.
- surveilled — to place under surveillance.
- survivable — able to be survived: Would an atomic war be survivable?
- 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.
- testicular — of or relating to the testes.
- tolu resin — tolu.
- translucid — translucent.
- tristylous — having three styles.
- trisulcate — having three grooves or furrows
- trisulfide — a sulfide containing three sulfur atoms.
- 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.