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10-letter words containing s, i, n, u, a

  • submediant — the sixth tone of a diatonic scale, being midway between the subdominant and the upper tonic.
  • subminimal — constituting a minimum: a minimal mode of transportation.
  • subnitrate — a basic salt of nitric acid.
  • suboceanic — occurring or existing below the floor of the ocean: suboceanic oil.
  • subordinal — of, relating to, or ranked as a suborder.
  • substation — a branch of a main post office.
  • subterrain — a cave or subterranean room.
  • suffisance — a sufficiency, a sufficient or abundant quantity or supply
  • sufflation — to inflate.
  • sugar pine — a tall pine, Pinus lambertiana, of California, Oregon, etc., having cones 20 inches (51 cm) long.
  • suleiman i — ("the Magnificent") 1495?–1566, sultan of the Ottoman Empire 1520–66.
  • sulfanilyl — containing the sulfanilyl group.
  • 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.
  • sunbathing — to take a sunbath.
  • sungchiang — Older Spelling. Songjiang.
  • suntan oil — an oil that you rub into your skin to protect it from the sun's harmful UV rays
  • suntanning — the action or process of acquiring a suntan
  • superation — the action or process of superating, overcoming or surpassing
  • superbrain — (computer)   A personal computer released in 1980 by Intertec. The Superbrain had two Z80A microprocessors running at 4 MHz, one for the main processing and the other for peripheral activities. It had an integrated keyboard and display. It was sold with the CP/M operating system, Microsoft Basic, an 8080 assembler and Microsoft Cobol 74. The base model, the "Superbrain 10", had no drives, only a network connection. Other models added one or two 5" floppy disc units. The "Jr" had 170K drives (single-sided), the "QD" had 340 KB drives (double-sided) and the "SD" had 780k. Intertec did not sell or support a hard drive or an S-100 bus for these machines. The network version of the SuperBrain was called CompuStar. The network was a large gray parallel cable. CompuStar had three "file servers" that accepted up to 255 machines. These were the "DSS-10" with a 10MB 8" Winchester drive; the "CDC" with 96MB consisting of 80MB fixed and a 16MB removable platter; and the "Priam" with a 144MB 14" platter winchester. Intertec manufactured the controllers for the last two and an enclosure and power supply for the Priam. CDC had to go on-site to install the 96MB. The SuperBrain was succeeded in 1982 by the SuperBrain II.
  • supergiant — Astronomy. supergiant star.
  • superpaint — (graphics)   A pioneering graphics program and framebuffer computer system developed by Richard Shoup at Xerox PARC. Design started in 1972 and the system produced its first stable image in April 1973. SuperPaint was one of the first computers used for creative work, video editing and animation, all which would become major sections within the entertainment industry and major components of industrial design. SuperPaint had a graphical user interface and could capture images from video input or combine them with digital data. SuperPaint was the first program with features such as changing hue, saturation and value, a colour palette, custom polygons and lines, virtual paintbrushes and pencils, auto-filling of images and anti-aliasing.
  • supination — rotation of the hand or forearm so that the palmar surface is facing upward (opposed to pronation).
  • suppliance — appeal; entreaty; plea; supplication: He knelt in an attitude of suppliance.
  • suppliancy — suppliance2 .
  • suppliants — a tragedy (c463 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
  • supplicant — supplicating.
  • supragenic — beyond the limits or above the level of genes.
  • surinamese — a native or inhabitant of Suriname.
  • surnominal — relating to surnames
  • surpassing — of a large amount or high degree; exceeding, excelling, or extraordinary: structures of surpassing magnificence.
  • survivance — survival
  • sustaining — to support, hold, or bear up from below; bear the weight of, as a structure.
  • suturation — the act of suturing
  • suzerainty — the position or authority of a suzerain.
  • synandrium — a peculiar fusion of stamens
  • synaxarium — synaxarion.
  • t'ai tsung — (Li Shih-min) a.d. 597–649, Chinese emperor of the T'ang dynasty 627–649.
  • tarquinius — (Lucius Tarquinius Priscus) died 578 b.c, king of Rome 616–578.
  • testudinal — pertaining to or resembling a tortoise or tortoise shell.
  • thinsulate — a type of thermal insulation made of synthetic fibers, used esp. as a lining in clothing
  • tisquantum — Squanto.
  • titanesque — Titanlike; Titanic.
  • titanosaur — any amphibious plant-eating dinosaur of the genus Titanosaurus, from the Cretaceous Period, having a long, thin neck and a long, whiplike tail.
  • translucid — translucent.
  • turkestani — of or relating to the central Asian region of Turkestan or its inhabitants
  • ultrasonic — of, relating to, or utilizing ultrasound.
  • unaccusing — to charge with the fault, offense, or crime (usually followed by of): He accused him of murder.
  • unactorish — not resembling or characteristic of actors or acting
  • unapprised — not informed or apprised of something
  • unartistic — not conforming to the standards of art; not aesthetically appealing: The architecture was crude and unartistic.
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