10-letter words containing s, i, u, n
- aquaporins — Plural form of aquaporin.
- arenavirus — any of various RNA-containing viruses of the family Arenaviridae, usually transmitted to humans by contact with excreta of infected rodents.
- ascogonium — a female reproductive body in some ascomycetous fungi in which, after fertilization, the asci develop
- assaulting — Present participle of assault.
- assumingly — in a presuming manner
- assumption — If you make an assumption that something is true or will happen, you accept that it is true or will happen, often without any real proof.
- assuringly — In an assuring manner.
- astounding — If something is astounding, you are shocked or amazed that it could exist or happen.
- athanasius — Saint. ?296–373 ad, patriarch of Alexandria who championed Christian orthodoxy against Arianism. Feast day: May 2
- aubergines — Plural form of aubergine.
- ausforming — a treatment to strengthen hard steels, prior to quenching, in which the specimen is plastically deformed while it is in the austenite temperature range
- austenitic — consisting mainly of austenite.
- australian — Australian means belonging or relating to Australia, or to its people or culture.
- austringer — a person who keeps goshawks
- autognosis — Self-knowledge; the understanding of one's character and peculiarities.
- autolysins — Plural form of autolysin.
- autonoesis — The neurocognitive ability to experience time as a series of subjective episodes.
- autonomics — the study of self-regulating systems for process control
- autonomism — the belief in or a movement toward autonomy.
- autonomist — a person desiring or advocating autonomy
- autopsying — Present participle of autopsy.
- autosexing — the breeding of birds to reveal specific sexual characteristics
- autotoxins — Plural form of autotoxin.
- balaustine — of or relating to the pomegranate.
- bargainous — (informal) cheap (characteristic of a bargain).
- benedictus — a short canticle beginning Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini in Latin and Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord in English
- berlusconi — Silvio (ˈsilvjo). born 1936, Italian politician and media tycoon: prime minister of Italy (1994–95, 2001–06, 2008–11); convicted of tax fraud and expelled from the Italian Senate in 2013
- bilinguist — a speaker of two languages
- binoculars — Binoculars consist of two small telescopes joined together side by side, which you look through in order to look at things that are a long way away.
- bismuthine — an unstable hydride of bismuth, BiH 3 , analogous to arsine and stibine.
- bituminous — of the nature of bitumen, esp. with regard to its color and combustibility
- blue rinse — a rinse for tinting grey hair a silvery-blue colour
- blue stain — a bluish discoloration of sapwood caused by growth of fungi
- blue-rinse — of, for, or composed mostly of elderly women: the blue-rinse matinee audience.
- blurriness — blurred; indistinct.
- blush wine — any of certain wines similar in style to dry white wine although slightly pink in color: made like rosé from red-wine grapes, and often named by the grape's name preceded by “white,” as white zinfandel
- bosun bird — tropic bird.
- boulangism — the doctrines of militarism and reprisals against Germany, advocated, especially in the 1880s, by the French general Boulanger.
- boundaries — something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
- bounderish — having the qualities of a bounder
- bourbonism — support for the rule of the Bourbons, the European royal line that ruled in France, Spain, and Naples and Sicily at various times in the late 16th to early 20th centuries
- bousingken — a drinking house frequented by thieves or other disreputable characters
- bring suit — to institute legal action; sue
- brugmansia — any of various solanaceous plants of the genus Brugmansia, native to tropical American regions and closely related to daturas, having sweetly scented flowers
- brundisium — Brindisi
- brunfelsia — any of various shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Brunfelsia, of the nightshade family, native to tropical America, having white or purple tubular or bell-shaped flowers.
- bubbliness — full of, producing, or characterized by bubbles.
- buchmanism — the principles or the international movement of Moral Re-Armament or of the Oxford Group, or belief in or adherence to them.
- buffoonish — resembling or in the manner of a buffoon
- bullionism — a person who advocates a system in which currency is directly convertible to gold or silver.