10-letter words containing t, r, i, n, s
- supporting — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- sure thing — something that is or is supposed to be a certain success, as a bet or a business venture: He thinks that real estate is a sure thing.
- surfeiting — excess; an excessive amount: a surfeit of speechmaking.
- surjection — onto function.
- suturation — the act of suturing
- suzerainty — the position or authority of a suzerain.
- sweltering — suffering oppressive heat.
- swinnerton — Frank (Arthur) 1884–1982, English novelist and critic.
- symmetrian — an advocate of symmetry
- syncretism — the attempted reconciliation or union of different or opposing principles, practices, or parties, as in philosophy or religion.
- syncretist — the attempted reconciliation or union of different or opposing principles, practices, or parties, as in philosophy or religion.
- syncretize — to combine or attempt to combine the characteristic teachings, beliefs, or practices of (differing systems of religion or philosophy)
- syndicator — a person who establishes a syndicate
- synergetic — working together; cooperative.
- synteresis — synderesis.
- syringitis — an inflammation of part of the ear
- tarquinius — (Lucius Tarquinius Priscus) died 578 b.c, king of Rome 616–578.
- tawdriness — (of finery, trappings, etc.) gaudy; showy and cheap.
- ten-strike — Tenpins. a strike.
- 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.
- tensegrity — the property of skeleton structures that employ continuous tension members and discontinuous compression members in such a way that each member operates with the maximum efficiency and economy.
- tensimeter — manometer.
- the minors — the minor leagues, esp. in baseball
- thrustings — the white whey that is hand-pressed out of the curd and from which butter is often made
- tin spirit — Often, tin spirits. any of a group of solutions containing tin salts, used in dyeing.
- titanosaur — any amphibious plant-eating dinosaur of the genus Titanosaurus, from the Cretaceous Period, having a long, thin neck and a long, whiplike tail.
- tolu resin — tolu.
- 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
- trans alai — a mountain range in central Asia, between Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan) and Tadzhikistan (Tajikistan). Highest peak, Lenin Peak.
- transcribe — to make a written copy, especially a typewritten copy, of (dictated material, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material).
- transcript — a written, typewritten, or printed copy; something transcribed or made by transcribing.
- transfixed — to make or hold motionless with amazement, awe, terror, etc.
- transgenic — of, relating to, or containing a gene or genes transferred from another species: transgenic mice.
- transience — transient state or quality.
- transiency — transient state or quality.
- transistor — Electronics. a semiconductor device that amplifies, oscillates, or switches the flow of current between two terminals by varying the current or voltage between one of the terminals and a third: although much smaller in size than a vacuum tube, it performs similar functions without requiring current to heat a cathode.
- transiting — the act or fact of passing across or through; passage from one place to another.
- transition — movement, passage, or change from one position, state, stage, subject, concept, etc., to another; change: the transition from adolescence to adulthood.
- transitive — Grammar. having the nature of a transitive verb.
- transitman — a person who makes observations with a transit.
- transitory — not lasting, enduring, permanent, or eternal.
- transkeian — a self-governing Bantu territory of South Africa on the Indian Ocean: granted independence in 1976 by South Africa, but not recognized by any other country as an independent state. 16,910 sq. mi. (43,798 sq. km). Capital: Umtata.
- translucid — translucent.
- transonics — the study of speeds close to the speed of sound
- transpired — to occur; happen; take place.
- transpires — to occur; happen; take place.
- transsonic — transonic.
- trapessing — to walk over; tramp: to traipse the fields.
- trappiness — the state of being trappy