10-letter words containing s, p, u, n
- rough spin — hard or unfair treatment
- runners-up — the competitor, player, or team finishing in second place, as in a race, contest, or tournament.
- rupestrian — made or found on cave walls or rocks
- rupestrine — living or growing on or among rocks.
- saharanpur — a city in NW Uttar Pradesh, in N India.
- saint paul — Saint, died a.d. c67, a missionary and apostle to the gentiles: author of several of the Epistles. Compare Saul (def 2).
- saint pius — Saint (Giuseppe Sarto) 1835–1914, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1903–14.
- schtupping — to have sexual intercourse with.
- scindapsus — any plant of the tropical Asiatic climbing genus Scindapsus, typically stem rooting, esp S. aureus and S. pictus, grown as greenhouse or house plants for their leathery heart-shaped variegated leaves: family Araceae
- scrub pine — any of several pines, as the jack pine, characterized by a scrubby or irregular manner of growth, usually found in dry, sandy soil.
- scrunch up — If you scrunch something up, you squeeze it or bend it so that it is no longer in its natural shape and is often crushed.
- scunthorpe — a town in E England, in North Lincolnshire unitary authority, Lincolnshire: developed rapidly after the discovery of local iron ore in the late 19th century; iron and steel industries have declined. Pop: 72 660 (2001)
- septennium — a period or cycle of seven years
- septuagint — the oldest Greek version of the Old Testament, traditionally said to have been translated by 70 or 72 Jewish scholars at the request of Ptolemy II: most scholars believe that only the Pentateuch was completed in the early part of the 3rd century b.c. and that the remaining books were translated in the next two centuries.
- setting-up — the establishment or creation of something
- sharpen up — hone, refine
- simon pure — real; genuine: a simon-pure accent.
- simon-pure — real; genuine: a simon-pure accent.
- sipunculid — an invertebrate of the phylum Sipuncula, comprising the peanut worms.
- smarten up — improve appearance
- snaphaunce — an early flintlock mechanism for igniting a charge of gunpowder in a gun.
- snapper up — a person who snaps up bargains, etc
- snowplough — A snowplough is a vehicle which is used to push snow off roads or railway lines.
- soundproof — impervious to sound.
- soundscape — the component sounds of an environment.
- soup spoon — A soup spoon is a spoon used for eating soup. The bowl-like part at the end of it is round.
- sousaphone — a form of bass tuba, similar to the helicon, used in brass bands.
- space junk — objects such as artificial satellites, material discarded from space stations, etc that remain in space after use
- sparganium — a marsh plant
- spellbound — bound by or as if by a spell; enchanted, entranced, or fascinated: a spellbound audience.
- spelunking — to explore caves, especially as a hobby.
- spent fuel — nuclear fuel that has been irradiated in a nuclear reactor to the point where it is no longer useful in sustaining a nuclear reaction
- spinaceous — pertaining to or of the nature of spinach; belonging to the amaranth family of plants.
- spinnerule — part of the spinneret of a spider
- spondylous — relating to a vertebra or vertebrae
- sporangium — the case or sac in which spores are produced.
- springbuck — springbok.
- spumescent — foamy; foamlike; frothy.
- spun glass — blown glass in which fine threads of glass form the surface texture.
- spun rayon — yarn produced by spinning short, uniform lengths of rayon filaments into a continuous strand.
- spun sugar — a confection resembling fluff or floss, made from hot boiled sugar that has threaded, used as a garnish, frosting, or in making cotton candy.
- spunbonded — being or designating a material or fiber produced by spun-bonding.
- spunkiness — plucky; spirited.
- spur veins — the veins of a horse that can be damaged by a rider's spurs
- sputtering — the act or sound of sputtering.
- staple gun — a machine for fastening together sheets of paper or the like, with wire staples.
- steam-punk — a subgenre of science fiction and fantasy featuring advanced machines and other technology based on steam power of the 19th century and taking place in a recognizable historical period or a fantasy world.
- stupefying — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
- stupendous — causing amazement; astounding; marvelous: stupendous news.
- stupidness — lacking ordinary quickness and keenness of mind; dull.