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10-letter words containing s, u, r, n

  • reinstruct — to furnish with knowledge, especially by a systematic method; teach; train; educate.
  • relinquish — to renounce or surrender (a possession, right, etc.): to relinquish the throne.
  • rendezvous — an agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place.
  • requesting — the act of asking for something to be given or done, especially as a favor or courtesy; solicitation or petition: At his request, they left.
  • requestion — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
  • rescrutiny — a searching examination or investigation; minute inquiry.
  • resecuring — free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
  • resin duct — a tube or duct in a woody stem or a leaf, especially in conifers, lined with glandular epithelium that secretes resins.
  • resolution — a formal expression of opinion or intention made, usually after voting, by a formal organization, a legislature, a club, or other group. Compare concurrent resolution, joint resolution.
  • resounding — making an echoing sound: a resounding thud.
  • resourcing — the provision of resources
  • restaurant — an establishment where meals are served to customers.
  • resumption — the act of resuming; a reassumption, as of something previously granted.
  • resupinate — bent backward.
  • resurgence — rising or tending to rise again; reviving; renascent.
  • returnless — allowing no return
  • reunionist — a person who advocates the reunion of the Anglican Church with the Roman Catholic Church.
  • rhinovirus — any of a varied and widespread group of picornaviruses responsible for many respiratory diseases, including the common cold.
  • ring shout — a group dance of West African origin introduced into parts of the southern U.S. by black revivalists, performed by shuffling counterclockwise in a circle while answering shouts of a preacher with corresponding shouts, and held to be, in its vigorous antiphonal patterns, a source in the development of jazz.
  • ring-shout — a group dance of West African origin introduced into parts of the southern U.S. by black revivalists, performed by shuffling counterclockwise in a circle while answering shouts of a preacher with corresponding shouts, and held to be, in its vigorous antiphonal patterns, a source in the development of jazz.
  • robustness — strong and healthy; hardy; vigorous: a robust young man; a robust faith; a robust mind.
  • romanesque — noting or pertaining to the style of architecture prevailing in western or southern Europe from the 9th through the 12th centuries, characterized by heavy masonry construction with narrow openings, features such as the round arch, the groin vault, and the barrel vault, and the introduction or development of the vaulting rib, the vaulting shaft, and central and western towers for churches.
  • rough spin — hard or unfair treatment
  • rough-sawn — (of wood) used as originally cut, without smoothing or sanding: shingles of rough-sawn cedar.
  • roundheels — a prostitute.
  • roundhouse — a building for the servicing and repair of locomotives, built around a turntable in the form of some part of a circle.
  • roussillon — a historic region in S France, on the border of Spain and the Mediterranean Sea.
  • routinised — to develop into a regular procedure.
  • rubenesque — of or relating to the painter Peter Paul Rubens or his works, which feature full-figured women.
  • rubiginose — rust-coloured or rusty
  • rubiginous — rusty; rust-colored; brownish-red.
  • rubinstein — Anton [an-ton;; Russian uhn-tawn] /ˈæn tɒn;; Russian ʌnˈtɔn/ (Show IPA), 1829–94, Russian pianist and composer.
  • ruffianish — like a ruffian
  • ruffianism — conduct befitting a ruffian.
  • ruggedness — having a roughly broken, rocky, hilly, or jagged surface: rugged ground.
  • rumfustian — a type of spiced nightcap made with beer
  • run a risk — exposure to the chance of injury or loss; a hazard or dangerous chance: It's not worth the risk.
  • run across — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
  • run scared — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
  • rune-stone — a stone bearing one or more runic inscriptions.
  • runners-up — the competitor, player, or team finishing in second place, as in a race, contest, or tournament.
  • rupestrian — made or found on cave walls or rocks
  • rupestrine — living or growing on or among rocks.
  • russetting — a boot or a piece of russet clothing
  • russianize — to make Russian; impart Russian characteristics to.
  • rust joint — (in plumbing and metalwork) a watertight joint made between two pieces by rusting them together.
  • rusticness — of, relating to, or living in the country, as distinguished from towns or cities; rural.
  • rusty iron — (jargon, hardware)   Synonym tired iron. It has been claimed that this is the inevitable fate of water MIPS.
  • ruthenious — containing bivalent ruthenium.
  • saharanpur — a city in NW Uttar Pradesh, in N India.
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