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10-letter words containing t, a, u, n, s

  • 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.
  • scattergun — A scattergun is a gun that fires a lot of small metal balls at the same time.
  • scaturient — gushing; overflowing.
  • sea return — radar signals that are reflected by a body of water and hamper target identification.
  • sea walnut — a comb jelly, as of the genus Mnemiopsis, shaped like a walnut.
  • semi-bantu — a group of languages of W Africa, mainly SE Nigeria and Cameroon, that were not traditionally classed as Bantu but that show certain essential Bantu characteristics. They are now classed with Bantu in the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo family
  • sensualist — a person given to the indulgence of the senses or appetites.
  • sensuality — sensual nature: the sensuality of Keats's poetry.
  • septuagint — the oldest Greek version of the Old Testament, traditionally said to have been translated by 70 or 72 Jewish scholars at the request of Ptolemy II: most scholars believe that only the Pentateuch was completed in the early part of the 3rd century b.c. and that the remaining books were translated in the next two centuries.
  • sequential — characterized by regular sequence of parts.
  • shakuntala — Sakuntala.
  • simulation — imitation or enactment, as of something anticipated or in testing.
  • sinarquist — a member or advocate of an ultrareactionary, semifascist movement organized in Mexico about 1937.
  • sit around — be idle, lounge about
  • smarten up — improve appearance
  • snakemouth — rose pogonia.
  • solutional — the act of solving a problem, question, etc.: The situation is approaching solution.
  • souari nut — the large, edible, oily nut of a tall tree, Caryocar nuciferum, of tropical South America.
  • soundstage — a soundproof room or building in which cinematic films are shot
  • soundtrack — the narrow band on one or both sides of a motion-picture film on which sound is recorded.
  • souterrain — a subterranean passage or structure; grotto.
  • squamation — the state of being squamate.
  • square tin — a medium-sized loaf having a crusty top, baked in a tin with a square base
  • squirt can — an oilcan with a flexible body that ejects oil when compressed.
  • stab wound — knife injury
  • stand mute — to refuse to plead guilty or not guilty
  • stanislaus — (Stanislaus Leszczynski) 1677–1766, king of Poland 1704–09, 1733–35.
  • staple gun — a machine for fastening together sheets of paper or the like, with wire staples.
  • staudinger — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1881–1965, German chemist: Nobel prize 1953.
  • staunchest — firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, etc., as a person: a staunch Republican; a staunch friend.
  • steam-punk — a subgenre of science fiction and fantasy featuring advanced machines and other technology based on steam power of the 19th century and taking place in a recognizable historical period or a fantasy world.
  • stimulancy — an energizing, invigorating, or stimulating quality
  • stramonium — jimson weed.
  • stuntwoman — A stuntwoman is a woman whose job is to do dangerous things, either for publicity, or in a movie instead of an actor so that the actor does not risk being injured.
  • stupration — an act of ravishing or a violation
  • stuyvesantPeter, 1592–1672, Dutch colonial administrator in the Americas: last governor of New Netherlands 1646–64.
  • suaveolent — fragrant or sweet-smelling
  • subcabinet — a group of advisers ranking below the cabinet level, chosen by a chief executive usually from members of the various executive departments.
  • subcentral — near or almost to the center.
  • subintimal — the innermost membrane or lining of some organ or part, especially that of an artery, vein, or lymphatic.
  • subintrant — having attacks or fits one after the other
  • submediant — the sixth tone of a diatonic scale, being midway between the subdominant and the upper tonic.
  • submontane — under or beneath a mountain or mountains.
  • subnascent — growing underneath
  • subnatural — existing in or formed by nature (opposed to artificial): a natural bridge.
  • subnitrate — a basic salt of nitric acid.
  • substation — a branch of a main post office.
  • substernal — of or relating to the sternum.
  • subtangent — the part of the x-axis cut off between the ordinate of a given point of a curve and the tangent at that point.
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