10-letter words containing u, n, t, r, s
- requestion — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
- rescrutiny — a searching examination or investigation; minute inquiry.
- resin duct — a tube or duct in a woody stem or a leaf, especially in conifers, lined with glandular epithelium that secretes resins.
- resolution — a formal expression of opinion or intention made, usually after voting, by a formal organization, a legislature, a club, or other group. Compare concurrent resolution, joint resolution.
- restaurant — an establishment where meals are served to customers.
- resumption — the act of resuming; a reassumption, as of something previously granted.
- resupinate — bent backward.
- returnless — allowing no return
- reunionist — a person who advocates the reunion of the Anglican Church with the Roman Catholic Church.
- ring shout — a group dance of West African origin introduced into parts of the southern U.S. by black revivalists, performed by shuffling counterclockwise in a circle while answering shouts of a preacher with corresponding shouts, and held to be, in its vigorous antiphonal patterns, a source in the development of jazz.
- ring-shout — a group dance of West African origin introduced into parts of the southern U.S. by black revivalists, performed by shuffling counterclockwise in a circle while answering shouts of a preacher with corresponding shouts, and held to be, in its vigorous antiphonal patterns, a source in the development of jazz.
- robustness — strong and healthy; hardy; vigorous: a robust young man; a robust faith; a robust mind.
- routinised — to develop into a regular procedure.
- rubinstein — Anton [an-ton;; Russian uhn-tawn] /ˈæn tɒn;; Russian ʌnˈtɔn/ (Show IPA), 1829–94, Russian pianist and composer.
- rumfustian — a type of spiced nightcap made with beer
- rune-stone — a stone bearing one or more runic inscriptions.
- rupestrian — made or found on cave walls or rocks
- rupestrine — living or growing on or among rocks.
- russetting — a boot or a piece of russet clothing
- rust joint — (in plumbing and metalwork) a watertight joint made between two pieces by rusting them together.
- rusticness — of, relating to, or living in the country, as distinguished from towns or cities; rural.
- rusty iron — (jargon, hardware) Synonym tired iron. It has been claimed that this is the inevitable fate of water MIPS.
- ruthenious — containing bivalent ruthenium.
- saintsbury — George Edward Bateman [beyt-muh n] /ˈbeɪt mən/ (Show IPA), 1845–1933, English literary critic and historian.
- sanatorium — a hospital for the treatment of chronic diseases, as tuberculosis or various nervous or mental disorders.
- sanitarium — an institution for the preservation or recovery of health, especially for convalescence; health resort.
- sanitorium — a facility for housing patients with long-term illnesses
- 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.
- scattergun — A scattergun is a gun that fires a lot of small metal balls at the same time.
- scaturient — gushing; overflowing.
- screen out — eliminate
- scrutineer — an official examiner, especially of votes in an election.
- scrutinise — to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
- scrutinize — to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
- scrutinous — strict, thorough
- scunthorpe — a town in E England, in North Lincolnshire unitary authority, Lincolnshire: developed rapidly after the discovery of local iron ore in the late 19th century; iron and steel industries have declined. Pop: 72 660 (2001)
- sea return — radar signals that are reflected by a body of water and hamper target identification.
- securement — the act of securing.
- serotinous — late in occurring, developing, or flowering.
- shotgunner — a person who is skilled with a shotgun
- shuttering — a solid or louvered movable cover for a window.
- sinarquist — a member or advocate of an ultrareactionary, semifascist movement organized in Mexico about 1937.
- sinistrous — ill-omened; unlucky; disastrous.
- sit around — be idle, lounge about
- smarten up — improve appearance
- snow crust — a relatively hard, upper layer or film of ice or compacted snow on a snow surface.
- souari nut — the large, edible, oily nut of a tall tree, Caryocar nuciferum, of tropical South America.