10-letter words containing s, u, r, a, d
- studebaker — Clement, 1831–1901, U.S. wagon maker and pioneer automobile designer.
- sub-leader — a person or thing that leads.
- subcarbide — a carbide containing less than the normal proportion of carbon.
- subcordate — almost heart-shaped
- subdeanery — the position or office of a subdean
- subordinal — of, relating to, or ranked as a suborder.
- subsidiary — serving to assist or supplement; auxiliary; supplementary.
- subtrahend — a number that is subtracted from another.
- sudatorium — a hot-air bath for inducing sweating.
- sugar bird — any of various honeycreepers that feed on nectar.
- 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.
- summarised — to make a summary of; state or express in a concise form.
- sunderance — to separate; part; divide; sever.
- sunderland — a seaport in Tyne and Wear, in NE England.
- super band — the band of frequencies between 216 and 600 megahertz, used for cable television channels and Citizens Band.
- superadded — to add over and above; join as a further addition; add besides.
- superboard — a wooden board with exceptional properties of some kind
- supergrade — a high-level rank, Grade 16, 17, or 18, in the federal civil service.
- sutherland — Earl Wilbur, Jr. 1915–74, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1971.
- synandrium — a peculiar fusion of stamens
- synandrous — with united stamens
- the absurd — the conception of the world, esp in Existentialist thought, as neither designed nor predictable but irrational and meaningless
- transducer — a device that receives a signal in the form of one type of energy and converts it to a signal in another form: A microphone is a transducer that converts acoustic energy into electrical impulses.
- translucid — translucent.
- transudate — the act or process of transuding.
- turn heads — to be so beautiful, unusual, or impressive as to attract a lot of attention
- ultradense — having the component parts closely compacted together; crowded or compact: a dense forest; dense population.
- ultrasound — Physics. sound with a frequency greater than 20,000 Hz, approximately the upper limit of human hearing.
- ultrasuede — a synthetic fabric much like suede, used for clothes, upholstery, etc.
- unabsorbed — not absorbed or taken in
- unanswered — a spoken or written reply or response to a question, request, letter, etc.: He sent an answer to my letter promptly.
- unapprised — not informed or apprised of something
- unarrested — to seize (a person) by legal authority or warrant; take into custody: The police arrested the burglar.
- unasserted — resting on a statement or claim unsupported by evidence or proof; alleged: The asserted value of the property was twice the amount anyone offered.
- unassorted — consisting of different or various kinds; miscellaneous: assorted flavors; assorted sizes.
- under arms — ready for armed combat
- under sail — If you cross the sea under sail, you cross it in a ship that has sails rather than an engine.
- under seal — If a document is under seal, it is in a sealed envelope and cannot be looked at, for example because it is private.
- underclass — a social stratum consisting of impoverished persons with very low social status.
- underlease — a sublet
- underpants — drawers or shorts worn under outer clothing, usually next to the skin.
- understand — to perceive the meaning of; grasp the idea of; comprehend: to understand Spanish; I didn't understand your question.
- understate — to state or represent less strongly or strikingly than the facts would bear out; set forth in restrained, moderate, or weak terms: The casualty lists understate the extent of the disaster.
- underwaist — a blouse worn under another.
- unharassed — to disturb persistently; torment, as with troubles or cares; bother continually; pester; persecute.
- unmastered — a person with the ability or power to use, control, or dispose of something: a master of six languages; to be master of one's fate.
- unmeasured — of undetermined or indefinitely great extent or amount; unlimited; measureless: the unmeasured heavens.
- unparadise — to deprive of or expel from paradise
- unpastured — not used as pasture
- unransomed — (of a person, prisoner, etc) not ransomed or released from captivity by a payment for freedom