10-letter words containing s, p, u, r, i
- springbuck — springbok.
- spur veins — the veins of a horse that can be damaged by a rider's spurs
- spuriosity — something spurious
- spuriously — not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit.
- sputtering — the act or sound of sputtering.
- strepitous — boisterous; noisy.
- strip club — strip joint.
- stupration — an act of ravishing or a violation
- subphrenic — underneath the diaphragm
- subprimate — a primitive variety of primate
- 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).
- subtropics — the region lying between the tropics and temperate lands
- sugar pine — a tall pine, Pinus lambertiana, of California, Oregon, etc., having cones 20 inches (51 cm) long.
- sulphurise — to combine, treat, or impregnate with sulfur.
- sulphurize — to combine or treat with sulphur or a sulphur compound
- sun pillar — a halo phenomenon in which a vertical streak of light appears above and below the sun, believed to be caused by the reflection of sunlight by ice crystals with vertical axes.
- sun spider — any predatory, scorpionlike arachnid of the order Solifugae (or Solpugida), having enormously developed mouth pincers and a long body covered with tactile hairs, inhabiting deserts and plains regions in all warm parts of the world except Australia.
- super-rich — having wealth or great possessions; abundantly supplied with resources, means, or funds; wealthy: a rich man; a rich nation.
- superation — the action or process of superating, overcoming or surpassing
- superbeing — the fact of existing; existence (as opposed to nonexistence).
- superbitch — an exceptionally spiteful woman, a very bitchy person
- superbrain — (computer) A personal computer released in 1980 by Intertec. The Superbrain had two Z80A microprocessors running at 4 MHz, one for the main processing and the other for peripheral activities. It had an integrated keyboard and display. It was sold with the CP/M operating system, Microsoft Basic, an 8080 assembler and Microsoft Cobol 74. The base model, the "Superbrain 10", had no drives, only a network connection. Other models added one or two 5" floppy disc units. The "Jr" had 170K drives (single-sided), the "QD" had 340 KB drives (double-sided) and the "SD" had 780k. Intertec did not sell or support a hard drive or an S-100 bus for these machines. The network version of the SuperBrain was called CompuStar. The network was a large gray parallel cable. CompuStar had three "file servers" that accepted up to 255 machines. These were the "DSS-10" with a 10MB 8" Winchester drive; the "CDC" with 96MB consisting of 80MB fixed and a 16MB removable platter; and the "Priam" with a 144MB 14" platter winchester. Intertec manufactured the controllers for the last two and an enclosure and power supply for the Priam. CDC had to go on-site to install the 96MB. The SuperBrain was succeeded in 1982 by the SuperBrain II.
- supercilia — the fillet above the cyma of a cornice.
- superdrive — (storage) Apple Computer, Inc.'s name for a combined DVD-ROM, DVD-RW, CD-RW drive that appeared in the iMac in 2002.
- superelite — (often used with a plural verb) the choice or best of anything considered collectively, as of a group or class of persons.
- superfluid — a fluid that exhibits frictionless flow, very high heat conductivity, and other unusual physical properties, helium below 2.186 K being the only known example.
- supergiant — Astronomy. supergiant star.
- superhelix — a coil formed by intertwined helical DNA or by protein chains.
- superiorly — higher in station, rank, degree, importance, etc.: a superior officer.
- superlight — extremely light
- superliner — an ocean liner of relatively great size or speed.
- 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 − .
- superpaint — (graphics) A pioneering graphics program and framebuffer computer system developed by Richard Shoup at Xerox PARC. Design started in 1972 and the system produced its first stable image in April 1973. SuperPaint was one of the first computers used for creative work, video editing and animation, all which would become major sections within the entertainment industry and major components of industrial design. SuperPaint had a graphical user interface and could capture images from video input or combine them with digital data. SuperPaint was the first program with features such as changing hue, saturation and value, a colour palette, custom polygons and lines, virtual paintbrushes and pencils, auto-filling of images and anti-aliasing.
- supersonic — greater than the speed of sound waves through air.
- superthick — extremely thick
- supertight — extremely tight
- supertitle — (especially in opera production) a translation of a segment of the libretto or other text or sometimes a brief summary of the plot projected onto a screen above the stage during a performance.
- supertonic — the second tone of a diatonic scale, being the next above the tonic.
- supertwist — the effect of twisting light rays to produce a high-resolution liquid crystal display
- supervised — to oversee (a process, work, workers, etc.) during execution or performance; superintend; have the oversight and direction of.
- supervisee — a supervised person
- supervises — to oversee (a process, work, workers, etc.) during execution or performance; superintend; have the oversight and direction of.
- supervisor — a person who supervises workers or the work done by others; superintendent.
- suppertime — the time at which supper is served, usually between the hours of 5 and 7 p.m.
- supporting — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- supportive — giving support.
- supragenic — beyond the limits or above the level of genes.
- supraoptic — above the optic chiasm
- suprapubic — above the pubic bone