10-letter words containing s, i, o, u
- nonviscous — inviscid.
- note issue — the action on the part of a bank of issuing banknotes
- nourishing — promoting or sustaining life, growth, or strength: a nourishing diet.
- nubiferous — cloud-bringing, cloud-bearing, or full of cloud
- nubigenous — produced from clouds; cloud-born
- nuciferous — (of a tree or bush) bearing nuts.
- nucivorous — (of animals) feeding on nuts
- nucleonics — the branch of science that deals with nuclear phenomena, as radioactivity, fission, or fusion, especially practical applications, as in industrial engineering.
- nucleoside — any of the class of compounds derived by the hydrolysis of nucleic acids or nucleotides, consisting typically of deoxyribose or ribose combined with adenine, guanine, cytosine, uracil, or thymine.
- numerosity — very many; being or existing in great quantity: numerous visits; numerous fish.
- numinosity — Quality of being numinous.
- numinously — In a numinous manner.
- nutritions — Plural form of nutrition.
- nutritious — providing nourishment, especially to a high degree; nourishing; healthful: a good, nutritious meal.
- obituaries — Plural form of obituary.
- obituarist — a notice of the death of a person, often with a biographical sketch, as in a newspaper.
- obloquious — Containing obloquy; reproachful.
- obnoctious — Obsolete form of obnoxious.
- obsequious — characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning: an obsequious bow.
- obstrusive — Misspelling of obtrusive.
- occlusions — Plural form of occlusion.
- occlusives — Plural form of occlusive.
- odalisques — Plural form of odalisque.
- odiousness — (uncountable) The condition of being odious.
- okuninushi — a son of Susanowo and, in some legends, creator of the world.
- old fustic — a large tropical American moraceous tree, Chlorophora tinctoria
- oleaginous — having the nature or qualities of oil.
- oleiferous — giving rise to oil, as certain seeds or hypha.
- olivaceous — of a deep shade of green; olive.
- omnibusses — (dated) Plural form of omnibus.
- omniferous — producing or consisting of all kinds of things
- omnigenous — Consisting of all kinds.
- omniparous — producing or generating all things
- omniscious — (obsolete) omniscient; all-knowing.
- omnisexual — pansexual (def 2).
- omnivorous — eating both animal and plant foods.
- on impulse — instinctively
- one-suiter — a piece of luggage designed to hold one suit and other smaller items, as underwear or socks.
- onion soup — a soup or broth made from onions and stock
- opium wars — a war between Great Britain and China that began in 1839 as a conflict over the opium trade and ended in 1842 with the Chinese cession of Hong Kong to the British, the opening of five Chinese ports to foreign merchants, and the grant of other commercial and diplomatic privileges in the Treaty of Nanking.
- osculating — Present participle of osculate.
- osculation — the act of kissing.
- osmeterium — a glandular process on the first thoracic segment of many caterpillars that emits a noxious odor to ward off predators.
- osmiridium — iridosmine.
- ossiferous — containing bones, especially fossil bones: ossiferous caves and rock beds.
- ossivorous — bone-eating
- ostentious — Misspelling of ostentatious.
- oubliettes — Plural form of oubliette.
- oughtlings — at all
- out sister — a member of a community of nuns who performs tasks in the outside world on behalf of the community