10-letter words containing t, e, l, u
- speculator — a person who is engaged in commercial or financial speculation.
- spent fuel — nuclear fuel that has been irradiated in a nuclear reactor to the point where it is no longer useful in sustaining a nuclear reaction
- spherulite — a rounded aggregate of radiating crystals found in obsidian and other glassy igneous rocks.
- spiculated — covered with spicules or needle-like
- spittlebug — the nymph of the froghopper, which surrounds itself with a frothy mass.
- squaretail — any of several fishes of the genus Tetragonurus, inhabiting deep waters of tropical and temperate seas, having a squarish tail and an armor of tough, bony scales.
- stale bull — a dealer or speculator who holds unsold commodities after a rise in market prices but who cannot trade because there are no buyers at the new levels and because his financial commitments prevent him from making further purchases
- staple gun — a machine for fastening together sheets of paper or the like, with wire staples.
- statutable — (of an offense) recognized by statute; legally punishable.
- staurolite — a mineral, basic iron aluminum silicate, Fe 2 Al 2 O 7 (SiO 4) 4 (OH), occurring in brown to black prismatic crystals, which are often twinned in the form of a cross.
- stealthful — secret, clandestine, or surreptitious procedure.
- steel blue — dark bluish gray.
- steel drum — Music. a bowl-shaped percussion instrument common in the West Indies, made from a steel barrel divided into sections producing different notes when struck.
- stellulate — minutely star-shaped
- stillhouse — a distillery or place where the distilling process takes place
- stimulable — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- stimulated — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- stipulated — to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of agreement (often followed by for).
- stridulate — to produce a shrill, grating sound, as a cricket does, by rubbing together certain parts of the body; shrill.
- stultified — to make, or cause to appear, foolish or ridiculous.
- stumblebum — a clumsy, second-rate prizefighter.
- suaveolent — fragrant or sweet-smelling
- subacutely — in a subacute manner
- subarticle — an article that forms part of a larger or main article
- subcentral — near or almost to the center.
- subchelate — having a claw with one pincer longer than the other
- subclavate — somewhat club-shaped.
- subcluster — a number of things of the same kind, growing or held together; a bunch: a cluster of grapes.
- subculture — Bacteriology. to cultivate (a bacterial strain) again on a new medium.
- subdialect — a division of a larger dialect
- subelement — a component or constituent of a whole or one of the parts into which a whole may be resolved by analysis: Bricks and mortar are elements of every masonry wall.
- subfertile — less than normally fertile
- sublattice — a set of elements of a lattice, in which each subset of two elements has a least upper bound and a greatest lower bound contained in the given set.
- suboctuple — in the proportion or ratio of one to eight
- substellar — having a mass smaller than the mass needed by stars for nuclear fusion
- substernal — of or relating to the sternum.
- subsulfate — a basic salt of sulfuric acid.
- subtextual — the underlying or implicit meaning, as of a literary work.
- subtilties — subtlety.
- subtleness — thin, tenuous, or rarefied, as a fluid or an odor.
- subtleties — the state or quality of being subtle.
- sucralfate — a sugar-aluminum complex, C 1 2 H 5 4 Al 1 6 O 7 5 S 8 , used for the treatment of duodenal ulcer.
- sulphatase — an enzyme of the esterase group that catalyses the hydrolysis of sulphate esters
- sulphatise — to convert into a sulfate, as by the roasting of ores.
- sulphonate — a salt or ester of any sulphonic acid containing the ion RSO2O– or the group RSO2O–, R being an organic group
- sulphurate — to combine or treat with sulphur or a sulphur compound
- sultriness — oppressively hot and close or moist; sweltering: a sultry day.
- sun helmet — a rigid hat worn in tropical climates, mainly in the past
- sun letter — any letter, as tā or sīn, representing a consonant that assimilates the l of a prefixed definite article.
- sunset law — a statute that includes provision for automatic termination of a government program, agency, etc., at the end of a specified time period unless it is reauthorized by the legislature.