10-letter words containing u, n, s, a, r
- santa cruz — a city on the coast of California.
- saturation — the act or process of saturating.
- saturnalia — (sometimes used with a plural verb) the festival of Saturn, celebrated in December in ancient Rome as a time of unrestrained merrymaking.
- sauntering — to walk with a leisurely gait; stroll: sauntering through the woods.
- saussurean — pertaining to or characteristic of the theories of Ferdinand de Saussure, especially the view that a language consists of a network of interrelated elements in contrast.
- scattergun — A scattergun is a gun that fires a lot of small metal balls at the same time.
- scaturient — gushing; overflowing.
- schongauer — Martin [mahr-tn;; German mahr-teen] /ˈmɑr tn;; German ˈmɑr tin/ (Show IPA), c1430–91, German engraver and painter.
- scrubwoman — a woman hired to clean a place; charwoman.
- sea return — radar signals that are reflected by a body of water and hamper target identification.
- sea urchin — any echinoderm of the class Echinoidea, having a somewhat globular or discoid form, and a shell composed of many calcareous plates covered with projecting spines.
- sharpen up — hone, refine
- shin guard — a protective covering, usually of leather or plastic and often padded, for the shins and sometimes the knees, worn chiefly by catchers in baseball and goalkeepers in ice hockey.
- sinarquist — a member or advocate of an ultrareactionary, semifascist movement organized in Mexico about 1937.
- singularly — extraordinary; remarkable; exceptional: a singular success.
- sit around — be idle, lounge about
- slanderous — defamation; calumny: rumors full of slander.
- smarten up — improve appearance
- snapper up — a person who snaps up bargains, etc
- snare drum — a small double-headed drum, carried at the side or placed on a stationary stand, having snares across the lower head to produce a rattling or reverberating effect.
- souari nut — the large, edible, oily nut of a tall tree, Caryocar nuciferum, of tropical South America.
- soundboard — sounding board.
- soundtrack — the narrow band on one or both sides of a motion-picture film on which sound is recorded.
- souterrain — a subterranean passage or structure; grotto.
- sparganium — a marsh plant
- sporangium — the case or sac in which spores are produced.
- spun rayon — yarn produced by spinning short, uniform lengths of rayon filaments into a continuous strand.
- spun sugar — a confection resembling fluff or floss, made from hot boiled sugar that has threaded, used as a garnish, frosting, or in making cotton candy.
- squadronal — belonging or relating to a squadron or squadrons
- squanderer — to spend or use (money, time, etc.) extravagantly or wastefully (often followed by away).
- square one — a starting point; initial stage or step: If this plan fails, we'll have to go back to square one.
- square tin — a medium-sized loaf having a crusty top, baked in a tin with a square base
- squareness — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
- squirt can — an oilcan with a flexible body that ejects oil when compressed.
- staudinger — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1881–1965, German chemist: Nobel prize 1953.
- stramonium — jimson weed.
- stupration — an act of ravishing or a violation
- sub-branch — a further branch or division of something within an already established branch or division
- sub-reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
- subangular — fairly angular
- subcentral — near or almost to the center.
- subcranial — of the area beneath the cranium or skull
- subdeanery — the position or office of a subdean
- subintrant — having attacks or fits one after the other
- submanager — a secondary or assistant manager
- submariner — a member of the crew of a submarine.
- submarines — a vessel that can be submerged and navigated under water, usually built for warfare and armed with torpedoes or guided missiles.
- subnatural — existing in or formed by nature (opposed to artificial): a natural bridge.
- subnitrate — a basic salt of nitric acid.
- subnuclear — pertaining to particles within or smaller than an atomic nucleus.