10-letter words containing u, n, i, r, t
- 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.
- squirt gun — spray gun.
- staudinger — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1881–1965, German chemist: Nobel prize 1953.
- stramonium — jimson weed.
- string out — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- struggling — to contend with an adversary or opposing force.
- stupration — an act of ravishing or a violation
- sturdiness — strongly built; stalwart; robust: sturdy young athletes.
- subintrant — having attacks or fits one after the other
- subnitrate — a basic salt of nitric acid.
- 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).
- subterrain — a cave or subterranean room.
- sultriness — oppressively hot and close or moist; sweltering: a sultry day.
- superation — the action or process of superating, overcoming or surpassing
- supergiant — Astronomy. supergiant star.
- superpaint — (graphics) A pioneering graphics program and framebuffer computer system developed by Richard Shoup at Xerox PARC. Design started in 1972 and the system produced its first stable image in April 1973. SuperPaint was one of the first computers used for creative work, video editing and animation, all which would become major sections within the entertainment industry and major components of industrial design. SuperPaint had a graphical user interface and could capture images from video input or combine them with digital data. SuperPaint was the first program with features such as changing hue, saturation and value, a colour palette, custom polygons and lines, virtual paintbrushes and pencils, auto-filling of images and anti-aliasing.
- supertonic — the second tone of a diatonic scale, being the next above the tonic.
- 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.
- tambourine — a small drum consisting of a circular frame with a skin stretched over it and several pairs of metal jingles attached to the frame, played by striking with the knuckles, shaking, and the like.
- tarquinius — (Lucius Tarquinius Priscus) died 578 b.c, king of Rome 616–578.
- 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.
- tertullian — (Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus) a.d. c160–c230, Carthaginian theologian.
- thrustings — the white whey that is hand-pressed out of the curd and from which butter is often made
- thumbprint — a mark or impression of the ventral surface of the last joint of the thumb.
- thunbergia — any of various plants, vines, or shrubs belonging to the genus Thunbergia, of the acanthus family, native to Africa and southern Asia, having variously colored flowers and often cultivated as ornamentals in warm regions.
- thundering — of, relating to, or accompanied by thunder.
- thuringian — a state in central Germany. 5985 sq. mi. (15,550 sq. km) Capital: Erfurt.
- tirocinium — first or early training or experience, usually referring to the military
- 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.
- tourbillon — a device in a mechanical watch which prevents errors due to changes in gravity
- tourmaline — any of a group of silicate minerals of complex composition, containing boron, aluminum, etc., usually black but having various colored, transparent varieties used as gems.
- tourniquet — Medicine/Medical, Surgery. any device for arresting bleeding by forcibly compressing a blood vessel, as a bandage tightened by twisting.
- traduction — a transmission or communication
- tranquilly — free from commotion or tumult; peaceful; quiet; calm: a tranquil country place.
- translucid — translucent.
- triangular — pertaining to or having the form of a triangle; three-cornered.
- triangulum — a small triangular constellation in the N hemisphere, close to Perseus and Aries
- trichinous — pertaining to or of the nature of trichinosis.
- triclinium — a couch extending along three sides of a table, for reclining on at meals.
- trilingual — using, speaking, or involving three languages.
- trinocular — of or relating to a binocular microscope equipped with a third lens system for photographic recording.