10-letter words containing s, o, u, a, r
- rampageous — violent; unruly; boisterous.
- ranivorous — that eats frogs
- ravenously — extremely hungry; famished; voracious: feeling ravenous after a hard day's work.
- re-arousal — arousal for a second or further time
- reaccustom — to familiarize by custom or use; habituate: to accustom oneself to cold weather.
- recusation — the act of recusing a judge
- repoussage — the art or process of working in repoussé.
- riot squad — a group of police officers having special training and equipment for quelling riots and other public disturbances.
- romanesque — noting or pertaining to the style of architecture prevailing in western or southern Europe from the 9th through the 12th centuries, characterized by heavy masonry construction with narrow openings, features such as the round arch, the groin vault, and the barrel vault, and the introduction or development of the vaulting rib, the vaulting shaft, and central and western towers for churches.
- root cause — origin
- rough-sawn — (of wood) used as originally cut, without smoothing or sanding: shingles of rough-sawn cedar.
- rouseabout — an unskilled labourer in a shearing shed
- roustabout — a wharf laborer or deck hand, as on the Mississippi River.
- rubiaceous — belonging to the Rubiaceae, the madder family of plants.
- run across — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- rusticator — to go to the country.
- saliferous — containing or producing salt: saliferous strata.
- salubrious — favorable to or promoting health; healthful: salubrious air.
- salutatory — pertaining to or of the nature of a salutation.
- sanatorium — a hospital for the treatment of chronic diseases, as tuberculosis or various nervous or mental disorders.
- sandgrouse — any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young.
- sanitorium — a facility for housing patients with long-term illnesses
- saturation — the act or process of saturating.
- scaramouch — a stock character in commedia dell'arte and farce who is a cowardly braggart, easily beaten and frightened.
- schongauer — Martin [mahr-tn;; German mahr-teen] /ˈmɑr tn;; German ˈmɑr tin/ (Show IPA), c1430–91, German engraver and painter.
- scordatura — the tuning of a stringed instrument in other than the usual way to facilitate the playing of certain compositions.
- scoutcraft — practice of or skill at scouting.
- scrubboard — washboard (defs 1, 2).
- scrubwoman — a woman hired to clean a place; charwoman.
- scum-board — a board or strip of material partly immersed in flowing water to hold back scum.
- sdrucciola — (of rhymes) triple
- seaborgium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Sg; atomic number: 106.
- search out — hunt for, seek
- securocrat — a military or police officer who has the power to influence government policy
- sexlocular — having six loculi or cells for seeds
- short-haul — of, relating to, or engaged in transportation over short distances: a short-haul trucking firm.
- simulatory — to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like): to simulate crisis conditions.
- sit around — be idle, lounge about
- slanderous — defamation; calumny: rumors full of slander.
- smartmouth — a witty or sarcastic person
- somersault — an acrobatic movement, either forward or backward, in which the body rolls end over end, making a complete revolution.
- sou marque — a billon coin of France, issued in the 18th century for circulation in the colonies.
- souari nut — the large, edible, oily nut of a tall tree, Caryocar nuciferum, of tropical South America.
- soubresaut — a jump performed with the legs held together and the body erect but slightly curved to the side.
- soundboard — sounding board.
- soundtrack — the narrow band on one or both sides of a motion-picture film on which sound is recorded.
- sour cream — cream soured by the lactic acid produced by a ferment.
- sour-faced — bad-tempered and unfriendly
- souterrain — a subterranean passage or structure; grotto.
- southwards — moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the south.