10-letter words containing s, u, n
- assumption — If you make an assumption that something is true or will happen, you accept that it is true or will happen, often without any real proof.
- assurances — Plural form of assurance.
- assuringly — In an assuring manner.
- astounding — If something is astounding, you are shocked or amazed that it could exist or happen.
- astronauts — Plural form of astronaut.
- astuteness — of keen penetration or discernment; sagacious: an astute analysis.
- athanasius — Saint. ?296–373 ad, patriarch of Alexandria who championed Christian orthodoxy against Arianism. Feast day: May 2
- athenaeums — Plural form of athenaeum.
- attenuates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of attenuate.
- aubergines — Plural form of aubergine.
- augustness — inspiring reverence or admiration; of supreme dignity or grandeur; majestic: an august performance of a religious drama.
- aunt sally — a figure of an old woman's head, typically with a clay pipe, used in fairgrounds and fêtes as a target for balls or other objects
- ausforming — a treatment to strengthen hard steels, prior to quenching, in which the specimen is plastically deformed while it is in the austenite temperature range
- austenitic — consisting mainly of austenite.
- australian — Australian means belonging or relating to Australia, or to its people or culture.
- austringer — a person who keeps goshawks
- autogenous — originating within the body
- autognosis — Self-knowledge; the understanding of one's character and peculiarities.
- autolysins — Plural form of autolysin.
- automatons — Plural form of automaton.
- autonoesis — The neurocognitive ability to experience time as a series of subjective episodes.
- autonomics — the study of self-regulating systems for process control
- autonomism — the belief in or a movement toward autonomy.
- autonomist — a person desiring or advocating autonomy
- autonomous — An autonomous country, organization, or group governs or controls itself rather than being controlled by anyone else.
- autonymous — (of a word or words) appearing in its own form or directly quoted
- autopsying — Present participle of autopsy.
- autosexing — the breeding of birds to reveal specific sexual characteristics
- autotoxins — Plural form of autotoxin.
- avenaceous — belonging to or of the nature of oats or oat grasses
- baby bonus — family allowance
- balaustine — of or relating to the pomegranate.
- banqueters — Plural form of banqueter.
- banquettes — Plural form of banquette.
- bantustans — Plural form of bantustan.
- bargainous — (informal) cheap (characteristic of a bargain).
- barkhausen — Heinrich Georg. 1881–1956, German physicist; discovered that ferromagnetic material in an increasing magnetic field becomes magnetized in discrete jumps (the Barkhausen effect)
- baseburner — a stove into which coal is automatically fed from a hopper above the fire chamber
- baserunner — a baseball player in the act of running around bases
- basutoland — Lesotho
- bemusement — Bemusement is the feeling that you have when you are puzzled or confused by something.
- benedictus — a short canticle beginning Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini in Latin and Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord in English
- berlusconi — Silvio (ˈsilvjo). born 1936, Italian politician and media tycoon: prime minister of Italy (1994–95, 2001–06, 2008–11); convicted of tax fraud and expelled from the Italian Senate in 2013
- bilinguist — a speaker of two languages
- binoculars — Binoculars consist of two small telescopes joined together side by side, which you look through in order to look at things that are a long way away.
- bismuthine — an unstable hydride of bismuth, BiH 3 , analogous to arsine and stibine.
- bituminous — of the nature of bitumen, esp. with regard to its color and combustibility
- blue jeans — Blue jeans are the same as jeans.
- blue rinse — a rinse for tinting grey hair a silvery-blue colour
- blue stain — a bluish discoloration of sapwood caused by growth of fungi