10-letter words containing s, t, a, u
- adventures — Plural form of adventure.
- affettuoso — with feeling
- afterhours — occurring, engaged in, or operating after the normal or legal closing time for business: an after-hours drinking club.
- agapanthus — a liliaceous plant, Agapanthus africanus, of southern Africa, having rounded clusters of blue or white funnel-shaped flowers
- agapetus i — Saint, died a.d. 536, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 535–536.
- aktyubinsk — city in W Kazakhstan: pop. 248,000
- alabastrum — alabastron.
- alacritous — cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness: We accepted the invitation with alacrity.
- all thumbs — clumsy
- altruistic — If your behaviour or motives are altruistic, you show concern for the happiness and welfare of other people rather than for yourself.
- aluminates — Plural form of aluminate.
- alutaceous — Zoology. covered with minute cracks or wrinkles and having a pale, leathery-brown color.
- amaranthus — Any of the genus Amaranthus; an amaranth.
- amateurish — If you describe something as amateurish, you think that it is not skilfully made or done.
- amateurism — Amateurism is the belief that people should take part in sports and other activities as a hobby, for pleasure, rather than as a job, for money.
- amatorious — amatorial
- ambushment — an act or instance of lying concealed so as to attack by surprise: The highwaymen waited in ambush near the road.
- amplitudes — Plural form of amplitude.
- amusements — Plural form of amusement.
- anacoustic — unable to support the propagation of sound; soundless
- anacrustic — Prosody. an unstressed syllable or syllable group that begins a line of verse but is not counted as part of the first foot.
- anarthrous — having no joints or articulated limbs
- anatropous — (of a plant ovule) inverted during development by a bending of the stalk (funicle) attaching it to the carpel wall
- ancipitous — Alternative form of ancipital.
- andalusite — a grey, pink, or brown hard mineral consisting of aluminium silicate in orthorhombic crystalline form. It occurs in metamorphic rocks and is used as a refractory and as a gemstone. Formula: Al2SiO5
- angel dust — PCP1
- annotinous — one year old.
- annuitants — Plural form of annuitant.
- anoestrous — anestrous.
- anovulants — Plural form of anovulant.
- ant-thrush — any of several antbirds, especially of the genus Formicarius.
- anthersmut — a species of parasitic fungus, Ustilago violacea
- anthuriums — Plural form of anthurium.
- anti-virus — Anti-virus software is software that protects a computer against viruses.
- antibusing — opposed to busing, the policy of transporting students to faraway schools in order to achieve racial balance within the public education system
- antilochus — a son of Nestor and a trusted friend of Achilles.
- antilogous — having the opposite name or character
- antimachus — Also called the Colophonian. flourished c410 b.c, Greek poet.
- antimasque — a comic or grotesque dance, presented between the acts of a masque
- antimonous — of or containing antimony in the trivalent state
- antinausea — preventing or alleviating nausea
- antiquarks — Plural form of antiquark.
- antiquates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of antiquate.
- antiserums — Plural form of antiserum.
- antisexual — a person opposed to sexuality or sexual activity
- antitragus — a cartilaginous projection of the external ear opposite the tragus
- antonymous — of, or having the nature of, an antonym; opposite in meaning
- apatosaurs — Plural form of apatosaur.
- apolaustic — concerned with or dedicated to enjoyment
- apotropous — (of a plant ovule) anatrophous with a ventral raphe