10-letter words containing t, a, u, r, s
- superstate — a state or a governing power presiding over states subordinated to it.
- supplanter — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
- supraoptic — above the optic chiasm
- supravital — pertaining to or involving a staining method for a preparation of living cells.
- surfactant — surface-active agent.
- surge tank — a large surge chamber.
- surrealist — a style of art and literature developed principally in the 20th century, stressing the subconscious or nonrational significance of imagery arrived at by automatism or the exploitation of chance effects, unexpected juxtapositions, etc.
- surreality — of, relating to, or characteristic of surrealism, an artistic and literary style; surrealistic.
- surrogatum — a substitute
- sutherland — Earl Wilbur, Jr. 1915–74, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1971.
- suturation — the act of suturing
- suzerainty — the position or authority of a suzerain.
- take turns — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- tankbuster — an aircraft, missile, etc designed to destroy tanks
- tannhauser — a German lyric poet of the 13th century: a well-known legend tells of his stay with Venus in the Venusberg and his later repentance.
- tarquinius — (Lucius Tarquinius Priscus) died 578 b.c, king of Rome 616–578.
- tartareous — resembling, of the nature of, or relating to tartar
- tatpurusha — a compound of two words in which the first is an attributive noun and the second a substantive, as bookcase, aircraft, or flowerpot.
- tersanctus — Sanctus (def 1).
- testicular — of or relating to the testes.
- the absurd — the conception of the world, esp in Existentialist thought, as neither designed nor predictable but irrational and meaningless
- thrash out — to beat soundly in punishment; flog.
- thysanuran — Also, thysanurous. belonging or pertaining to the order Thysanura, comprising the bristletails.
- titanosaur — any amphibious plant-eating dinosaur of the genus Titanosaurus, from the Cretaceous Period, having a long, thin neck and a long, whiplike tail.
- track suit — a sweat suit, usually with a long-sleeved jacket and long pants, worn by athletes, especially runners, before and after actual competition or during workouts.
- traitorous — having the character of a traitor; treacherous; perfidious.
- 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.
- transhuman — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or having the nature of people: human frailty.
- translucid — translucent.
- translunar — translunary.
- transputer — A transputer is a type of fast powerful microchip.
- transudate — the act or process of transuding.
- transvalue — to reestimate the value of, especially on a basis differing from accepted standards; reappraise; reevaluate.
- trap house — a shelter from which the clay pigeons are released in trapshooting.
- traumatise — Pathology. to injure (tissues) by force or by thermal, chemical, etc., agents.
- traumatism — any abnormal condition produced by a trauma.
- treasonous — treasonable.
- trifarious — facing in three different directions
- trisulcate — having three grooves or furrows
- tropopause — the boundary, or transitional layer, between the troposphere and the stratosphere.
- true basic — (language) A compiled BASIC, by John Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz, requiring no line numbers.
- try square — a device for testing the squareness of carpentry work or the like, or for laying out right angles, consisting of a pair of straightedges fixed at right angles to one another.
- turboshaft — a gas turbine used to deliver shaft power, as to a helicopter rotor.
- turkestani — of or relating to the central Asian region of Turkestan or its inhabitants
- turn heads — to be so beautiful, unusual, or impressive as to attract a lot of attention
- ultra-scsi — (hardware) An extension of SCSI-2 proposed by a group of manufacturers which doubles the transfer speed of Fast-SCSI to give 20MByte/s on an 8-bit connection and 40MByte/s on a 16-bit connection.
- ultrabasic — (of rocks) containing iron and magnesium, with little or no silica.
- ultradense — having the component parts closely compacted together; crowded or compact: a dense forest; dense population.
- ultraistic — extremism.
- ultrasharp — (of a monitor or screen) having very high definition