10-letter words containing s, p, u, r, t, a
- postocular — located behind the eye
- postpartum — of or noting the period of time following childbirth; after delivery.
- postulator — a priest who presents a plea for a beatification or the canonization of a beatus. Compare devil's advocate (def 2).
- praetorius — Michael (Michael Schultheiss) 1571–1621, German composer, organist, and theorist.
- prothallus — prothallium.
- psalterium — the omasum.
- pulse rate — the rate of the pulse: stated in pulsations per minute.
- puntarenas — a seaport in W Costa Rica.
- purgatives — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
- puritanism — the principles and practices of the Puritans.
- pursuivant — a heraldic officer of the lowest class, ranking below a herald.
- push-start — to start (a motor vehicle) by pushing it while it is in gear, thus turning the engine
- put across — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- rampasture — a large attic room.
- resupinate — bent backward.
- rump steak — Rump or rump steak is meat cut from the rear end of a cow.
- rupestrian — made or found on cave walls or rocks
- scriptural — (sometimes initial capital letter) of, relating to, or in accordance with sacred writings, especially the Scriptures.
- sculptural — relating to sculpture
- sepultural — the act of placing in a sepulcher or tomb; burial.
- smarten up — improve appearance
- speculator — a person who is engaged in commercial or financial speculation.
- spermaduct — a spermatic passage found in male animals
- spermatium — Botany. the nonmotile male gamete of a red alga.
- spirituals — of, relating to, or consisting of spirit; incorporeal.
- spread out — extend, splay
- spur track — a short branch track leading from the main track, and connected with it at one end only.
- stump farm — a farm that was started on previously forested land covered with the stumps of felled trees.
- stupration — an act of ravishing or a violation
- subchapter — a subdivision especially of a body of laws.
- subprimate — a primitive variety of primate
- sulphurate — to combine or treat with sulphur or a sulphur compound
- superacute — sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain.
- superagent — an expert or highly effective agent, esp of a sports player or actor
- superaltar — a consecrated portable stone slab for use on an unconsecrated altar
- superation — the action or process of superating, overcoming or surpassing
- superexalt — to exalt further; to exalt or raise above others or above a previous position
- superfecta — a type of bet, especially on horse races, in which the bettor must select the first four finishers in exact order.
- supergiant — Astronomy. supergiant star.
- superjanet — An initiative started in 1989, under the Computer Board, with the aim of developing of a national broadband network to support UK higher education and research. The preparatory work culminated in 1992 with the award of a contract worth 18M pounds to British Telecom to provide networking services over a four year period that extends to March 1997. The BT contract will provide a national network with two components: a high speed, configurable bandwidth network serving up to 16 sites, initially using PDH to be replaced with SDH, and a high speed switched data service (SMDS) serving 50 or more sites. The primary role of the PDH/SDH component will be to support the development and deployment of an ATM network. These components will be complemented by several high performance Metropolitan Area Networks each serving several closely located sites. The aim is to provide, within the first year of the project, a pervasive network capable of supporting a large and diverse user community. The network has two parts, an IP data network and an ATM network, both operating at 34Mbit/s. Early in August 1993 the pilot IP network was transferred to full service and was configured to provide a trunk network for JIPS, the JANET IP Service. In November 1993 work was well advanced on the next phase which aims to extend SuperJANET to a large number of sites. The pilot four site ATM network will be extended to serve twelve sites and will expand the scope of the video network. The principal vehicle used for the expansion of the data network will be the SMDS service provided by BT. Most of the work associated with the development of this phase is expected to be completed by the end of March 1994.
- 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.
- supersmart — exceptionally smart
- superstate — a state or a governing power presiding over states subordinated to it.
- supplanter — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
- supraoptic — above the optic chiasm
- supravital — pertaining to or involving a staining method for a preparation of living cells.
- tatpurusha — a compound of two words in which the first is an attributive noun and the second a substantive, as bookcase, aircraft, or flowerpot.
- transputer — A transputer is a type of fast powerful microchip.
- trap house — a shelter from which the clay pigeons are released in trapshooting.
- tropopause — the boundary, or transitional layer, between the troposphere and the stratosphere.