10-letter words containing u, p, o, n
- recoupment — to get back the equivalent of: to recoup one's losses by a lucky investment.
- regrouping — to form into a new or restructured group or grouping.
- reputation — the estimation in which a person or thing is held, especially by the community or the public generally; repute: a man of good reputation.
- resumption — the act of resuming; a reassumption, as of something previously granted.
- rough spin — hard or unfair treatment
- round tape — (storage, jargon) Industry-standard 1/2-inch magnetic tape (7- or 9-track) on traditional circular reels. See macrotape, opposite: square tape.
- round trip — a trip to a given place and back again: Fares for round trips often have a discount.
- 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)
- simon pure — real; genuine: a simon-pure accent.
- simon-pure — real; genuine: a simon-pure accent.
- snowplough — A snowplough is a vehicle which is used to push snow off roads or railway lines.
- soundproof — impervious to sound.
- soundscape — the component sounds of an environment.
- soup spoon — A soup spoon is a spoon used for eating soup. The bowl-like part at the end of it is round.
- sousaphone — a form of bass tuba, similar to the helicon, used in brass bands.
- spellbound — bound by or as if by a spell; enchanted, entranced, or fascinated: a spellbound audience.
- spinaceous — pertaining to or of the nature of spinach; belonging to the amaranth family of plants.
- spondylous — relating to a vertebra or vertebrae
- 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.
- spunbonded — being or designating a material or fiber produced by spun-bonding.
- stupendous — causing amazement; astounding; marvelous: stupendous news.
- stupration — an act of ravishing or a violation
- subcompany — subsidiary company.
- subpoenaed — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
- subpontine — of or relating to the Pontine Marshes.
- subpotency — a condition of reduced potency, as of a medication.
- 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).
- subspinous — situated beneath the spine's protruding vertebrae or 'bumps'
- sulphonate — a salt or ester of any sulphonic acid containing the ion RSO2O– or the group RSO2O–, R being an organic group
- sulphonium — the hypothetical univalent radical -SH3
- sun parlor — a porch or room with many windows exposed to sunshine; sun porch; solarium.
- superation — the action or process of superating, overcoming or surpassing
- superphone — a telephone with a high-speed processor that can perform many of the functions of a computer
- supersonic — greater than the speed of sound waves through air.
- supersound — sound that is inaudible, either because its frequency is too high or because it is too intense to endure
- supertonic — the second tone of a diatonic scale, being the next above the tonic.
- superwoman — a woman of extraordinary or superhuman powers.
- supination — rotation of the hand or forearm so that the palmar surface is facing upward (opposed to pronation).
- 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.
- supporting — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- suspension — the act of suspending.
- suspensoid — a sol having a solid disperse phase.
- suspensory — a supporting bandage, muscle, ligament, etc.
- syncarpous — of the nature of or pertaining to a syncarp.
- take up on — If you take someone up on their offer or invitation, you accept it.
- tau lepton — an unstable lepton with a mass approximately 3500 times that of the electron. Symbol: T.
- tautophony — the repetition of a sound
- tenpounder — ladyfish.
- theopneust — inspired by God or a god