10-letter words containing t, e, n, o, i, s
- subjection — the act of subjecting.
- subpontine — of or relating to the Pontine Marshes.
- subreption — Canon Law. a concealment of the pertinent facts in a petition, as for dispensation or favor, that in certain cases nullifies the grant. Compare obreption (def 1).
- subroutine — an instruction sequence in a machine or assembly language program that can be prewritten and referred to as often as needed. Compare procedure (def 4a).
- subsection — a part or division of a section.
- subvention — a grant of money, as by a government or some other authority, in aid or support of some institution or undertaking, especially in connection with science or the arts.
- suggestion — the act of suggesting.
- superation — the action or process of superating, overcoming or surpassing
- supertonic — the second tone of a diatonic scale, being the next above the tonic.
- suppletion — the use in inflection or derivation of an allomorph that is not related in form to the primary allomorph of a morpheme, as the use of better as the comparative of good.
- surjection — onto function.
- sustention — the act of sustaining.
- swinestone — a type of limestone that emits an unpleasant odour when rubbed or struck
- swing vote — to cause to move to and fro, sway, or oscillate, as something suspended from above: to swing one's arms in walking.
- swinnerton — Frank (Arthur) 1884–1982, English novelist and critic.
- syntenosis — the connection of bones by means of tendons
- teinoscope — an optical device employing prisms to correct the chromatic aberration of light
- telegnosis — supernatural or occult knowledge; clairvoyance.
- television — the transmission of programming, in the form of still or moving images, via radio waves, cable wires, satellite, or wireless network to a receiver or other screen.
- telsontail — any of several minute, wingless, primitive insects of the order Protura, having a cone-shaped head with sucking and piercing mouthparts and no eyes or antennae, inhabiting damp soil or decaying organic matter.
- tendonitis — inflammation of a tendon.
- tendrilous — a threadlike, leafless organ of climbing plants, often growing in spiral form, which attaches itself to or twines round some other body, so as to support the plant.
- tenebrious — dark; gloomy; obscure.
- tensioning — the act of stretching or straining.
- tentations — a method of making mechanical adjustments or the like by a succession of trials.
- the minors — the minor leagues, esp. in baseball
- theodosian — of or relating to Theodosius I, who made Christianity the official state religion of the Roman Empire.
- timoshenko — Semion Konstantinovich [syi-myawn ken-stuhn-tyee-nuh-vyich] /syɪˈmyɔn kɛn stʌnˈtyi nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1895–1970, Russian general.
- tinseltown — Hollywood, California, as a center of the movie industry.
- tolu resin — tolu.
- tonguefish — any of several flatfishes of the family Cynoglossidae, having the tail tapered to a point.
- tonishness — the quality or state of being tonish
- toric lens — a lens used to correct astigmatism, having one of its surfaces shaped like part of a torus so that its focal lengths are different in different meridians
- townsville — a seaport on the E coast of Queensland, in E Australia.
- toyishness — the quality or state of being toyish
- trichinose — to infest with parasitic worms (trichinae)
- triniscope — an early television with three tubes projecting the three primary colours
- trisection — to divide into three parts, especially into three equal parts.
- triskelion — a symbolic figure consisting of three legs, arms, or branches radiating from a common center, as the device of Sicily and the Isle of Man.
- trousering — any cloth suitable for trousers
- tyrosinase — an oxidizing enzyme, occurring in plant and animal tissues, that catalyzes the aerobic oxidation of tyrosine into melanin and other pigments.
- uncloister — to free from confinement of any kind
- undomestic — not domestic; not skilled in domestic tasks or housework
- unicostate — having only one costa, rib, or ridge.
- unisolated — to set or place apart; detach or separate so as to be alone.
- unmortised — not mortised
- urosthenic — having a tail which drives movement of the body
- velutinous — having a soft, velvety surface, as certain plants.
- venostasis — retardation or stoppage of blood flow through a vein.
- ventricose — swollen, especially on one side or unequally; protuberant.