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10-letter words containing s, u, l, a

  • sufflation — to inflate.
  • sugar bowl — a small bowl, usually having a cover, for serving granulated sugar or sugar cubes.
  • sugar loaf — resembling a sugar-loaf.
  • sugar lump — cube of sugar for coffee or tea
  • sugar palm — gomuti (def 1).
  • sugar-loaf — resembling a sugar-loaf.
  • sugar-plum — a small sweetmeat made of sugar with various flavoring and coloring ingredients; a bonbon.
  • sugarallie — liquorice
  • suicidally — pertaining to, involving, or suggesting suicide.
  • suleiman i — ("the Magnificent") 1495?–1566, sultan of the Ottoman Empire 1520–66.
  • sulfa drug — any of a group of drugs closely related in chemical structure to sulfanilamide, having a bacteriostatic rather than a bacteriocidal effect: used in the treatment of various wounds, burns, and infections.
  • sulfanilyl — containing the sulfanilyl group.
  • sulphatase — an enzyme of the esterase group that catalyses the hydrolysis of sulphate esters
  • sulphatise — to convert into a sulfate, as by the roasting of ores.
  • sulphonate — a salt or ester of any sulphonic acid containing the ion RSO2O– or the group RSO2O–, R being an organic group
  • sulphurate — to combine or treat with sulphur or a sulphur compound
  • sun parlor — a porch or room with many windows exposed to sunshine; sun porch; solarium.
  • 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 valley — a village in S central Idaho: winter resort.
  • sunderland — a seaport in Tyne and Wear, in NE England.
  • sunglasses — burning glass.
  • sunset law — a statute that includes provision for automatic termination of a government program, agency, etc., at the end of a specified time period unless it is reauthorized by the legislature.
  • suntan oil — an oil that you rub into your skin to protect it from the sun's harmful UV rays
  • superalloy — an alloy, often with a nickel, nickel-iron, or cobalt base, capable of withstanding very high temperatures, used in jet engines, rockets, etc.
  • superaltar — a consecrated portable stone slab for use on an unconsecrated altar
  • supercilia — the fillet above the cyma of a cornice.
  • superclass — a category of related classes within a phylum or subphylum.
  • superclean — exceptionally clean
  • superexalt — to exalt further; to exalt or raise above others or above a previous position
  • superflack — an extremely competent, successful press agent
  • superlarge — extremely large
  • superlunar — situated above or beyond the moon.
  • superplane — an extremely large or fast aeroplane
  • superscale — on a very large scale
  • supplanted — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
  • supplanter — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
  • supplejack — a strong, pliant cane or walking stick.
  • suppliance — appeal; entreaty; plea; supplication: He knelt in an attitude of suppliance.
  • suppliancy — suppliance2 .
  • suppliants — a tragedy (c463 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
  • supplicant — supplicating.
  • supplicate — to pray humbly; make humble and earnest entreaty or petition.
  • supposable — to assume (something), as for the sake of argument or as part of a proposition or theory: Suppose the distance to be one mile.
  • supposably — to assume (something), as for the sake of argument or as part of a proposition or theory: Suppose the distance to be one mile.
  • supralunar — beyond the moon
  • suprarenal — situated above or on the kidney.
  • supravital — pertaining to or involving a staining method for a preparation of living cells.
  • surgically — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
  • surmisable — to think or infer without certain or strong evidence; conjecture; guess.
  • surnominal — relating to surnames
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