10-letter words containing s, u, r, n
- saintsbury — George Edward Bateman [beyt-muh n] /ˈbeɪt mən/ (Show IPA), 1845–1933, English literary critic and historian.
- sanatorium — a hospital for the treatment of chronic diseases, as tuberculosis or various nervous or mental disorders.
- sandgrouse — any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young.
- sandsucker — the flatfish Platessa limandoides
- sanguinary — full of or characterized by bloodshed; bloody: a sanguinary struggle.
- sanitarium — an institution for the preservation or recovery of health, especially for convalescence; health resort.
- sanitorium — a facility for housing patients with long-term illnesses
- santa cruz — a city on the coast of California.
- saturation — the act or process of saturating.
- saturnalia — (sometimes used with a plural verb) the festival of Saturn, celebrated in December in ancient Rome as a time of unrestrained merrymaking.
- sauntering — to walk with a leisurely gait; stroll: sauntering through the woods.
- saussurean — pertaining to or characteristic of the theories of Ferdinand de Saussure, especially the view that a language consists of a network of interrelated elements in contrast.
- scattergun — A scattergun is a gun that fires a lot of small metal balls at the same time.
- scaturient — gushing; overflowing.
- schongauer — Martin [mahr-tn;; German mahr-teen] /ˈmɑr tn;; German ˈmɑr tin/ (Show IPA), c1430–91, German engraver and painter.
- school run — The school run is the journey that parents make each day when they take their children to school and bring them home from school.
- scornfully — full of scorn; derisive; contemptuous: He smiled in a scornful way.
- screen out — eliminate
- scroungers — to borrow (a small amount or item) with no intention of repaying or returning it: to scrounge a cigarette.
- scrub pine — any of several pines, as the jack pine, characterized by a scrubby or irregular manner of growth, usually found in dry, sandy soil.
- scrubwoman — a woman hired to clean a place; charwoman.
- scrunch up — If you scrunch something up, you squeeze it or bend it so that it is no longer in its natural shape and is often crushed.
- scruncheon — (in Newfoundland) a small crisp piece of fried pork fat
- scrutineer — an official examiner, especially of votes in an election.
- scrutinise — to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
- scrutinize — to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
- scrutinous — strict, thorough
- scunthorpe — a town in E England, in North Lincolnshire unitary authority, Lincolnshire: developed rapidly after the discovery of local iron ore in the late 19th century; iron and steel industries have declined. Pop: 72 660 (2001)
- scurfiness — the state or quality of being scurfy
- sea return — radar signals that are reflected by a body of water and hamper target identification.
- sea urchin — any echinoderm of the class Echinoidea, having a somewhat globular or discoid form, and a shell composed of many calcareous plates covered with projecting spines.
- second-run — designating or of:
- securement — the act of securing.
- secureness — free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
- send round — to cause, permit, or enable to go: to send a messenger; They sent their son to college.
- serotinous — late in occurring, developing, or flowering.
- sharpen up — hone, refine
- shin guard — a protective covering, usually of leather or plastic and often padded, for the shins and sometimes the knees, worn chiefly by catchers in baseball and goalkeepers in ice hockey.
- shotgunner — a person who is skilled with a shotgun
- showground — outdoor events venue
- shuddering — trembling or quivering with fear, dread, cold, etc.
- shuttering — a solid or louvered movable cover for a window.
- sideburned — having sideburns
- simon pure — real; genuine: a simon-pure accent.
- simon-pure — real; genuine: a simon-pure accent.
- sinarquist — a member or advocate of an ultrareactionary, semifascist movement organized in Mexico about 1937.
- sine curve — a curve described by the equation y = sin x, the ordinate being equal to the sine of the abscissa.
- singularly — extraordinary; remarkable; exceptional: a singular success.
- sinistrous — ill-omened; unlucky; disastrous.
- sir edmund — Clara, 1821–1912, U.S. philanthropist who organized the American Red Cross in 1881.