10-letter words containing s, i, o, u
- subjoinder — something subjoined, as an additional comment.
- subkingdom — a category of related phyla within a kingdom.
- submersion — to submerge.
- submission — an act or instance of submitting.
- suboceanic — occurring or existing below the floor of the ocean: suboceanic oil.
- subofficer — a person who holds a position of rank or authority in the army, navy, air force, or any similar organization, especially one who holds a commission.
- suboptimal — being below an optimal level or standard.
- 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.
- subpontine — of or relating to the Pontine Marshes.
- subreption — Canon Law. a concealment of the pertinent facts in a petition, as for dispensation or favor, that in certain cases nullifies the grant. Compare obreption (def 1).
- subroutine — an instruction sequence in a machine or assembly language program that can be prewritten and referred to as often as needed. Compare procedure (def 4a).
- subsection — a part or division of a section.
- subsociety — a subdivision of a society
- subspinous — situated beneath the spine's protruding vertebrae or 'bumps'
- substation — a branch of a main post office.
- subtropics — the region lying between the tropics and temperate lands
- subvention — a grant of money, as by a government or some other authority, in aid or support of some institution or undertaking, especially in connection with science or the arts.
- subversion — an act or instance of subverting.
- succession — the coming of one person or thing after another in order, sequence, or in the course of events: many troubles in succession.
- sudatorium — a hot-air bath for inducing sweating.
- sufflation — to inflate.
- suggestion — the act of suggesting.
- sulphonium — the hypothetical univalent radical -SH3
- sulphoxide — any compound containing a sulphinyl group (SO) and a hydrocarbon radical
- suntan oil — an oil that you rub into your skin to protect it from the sun's harmful UV rays
- superation — the action or process of superating, overcoming or surpassing
- superiorly — higher in station, rank, degree, importance, etc.: a superior officer.
- supermicro — the fastest and most powerful type of microcomputer, with capabilities more commonly associated with minicomputers.
- superoxide — a compound containing the univalent ion O 2 − .
- supersonic — greater than the speed of sound waves through air.
- supertonic — the second tone of a diatonic scale, being the next above the tonic.
- supervisor — a person who supervises workers or the work done by others; superintendent.
- supination — rotation of the hand or forearm so that the palmar surface is facing upward (opposed to pronation).
- suppletion — the use in inflection or derivation of an allomorph that is not related in form to the primary allomorph of a morpheme, as the use of better as the comparative of good.
- supporting — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- supportive — giving support.
- supraoptic — above the optic chiasm
- surjection — onto function.
- surnominal — relating to surnames
- suspension — the act of suspending.
- suspensoid — a sol having a solid disperse phase.
- suspicious — tending to cause or excite suspicion; questionable: suspicious behavior.
- suspirious — breathing heavily or with pain
- sustention — the act of sustaining.
- suturation — the act of suturing
- symphilous — of or relating to symphilism
- synoecious — having male and female flowers on one head, as in many composite plants.
- 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.
- tenebrious — dark; gloomy; obscure.