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10-letter words containing u, r, a, n, i

  • 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.
  • 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
  • souari nut — the large, edible, oily nut of a tall tree, Caryocar nuciferum, of tropical South America.
  • souterrain — a subterranean passage or structure; grotto.
  • sparganium — a marsh plant
  • sporangium — the case or sac in which spores are produced.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • subcranial — of the area beneath the cranium or skull
  • subintrant — having attacks or fits one after the other
  • 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.
  • subnitrate — a basic salt of nitric acid.
  • subordinal — of, relating to, or ranked as a suborder.
  • subterrain — a cave or subterranean room.
  • sugar pine — a tall pine, Pinus lambertiana, of California, Oregon, etc., having cones 20 inches (51 cm) long.
  • sun pillar — a halo phenomenon in which a vertical streak of light appears above and below the sun, believed to be caused by the reflection of sunlight by ice crystals with vertical axes.
  • superation — the action or process of superating, overcoming or surpassing
  • superbrain — (computer)   A personal computer released in 1980 by Intertec. The Superbrain had two Z80A microprocessors running at 4 MHz, one for the main processing and the other for peripheral activities. It had an integrated keyboard and display. It was sold with the CP/M operating system, Microsoft Basic, an 8080 assembler and Microsoft Cobol 74. The base model, the "Superbrain 10", had no drives, only a network connection. Other models added one or two 5" floppy disc units. The "Jr" had 170K drives (single-sided), the "QD" had 340 KB drives (double-sided) and the "SD" had 780k. Intertec did not sell or support a hard drive or an S-100 bus for these machines. The network version of the SuperBrain was called CompuStar. The network was a large gray parallel cable. CompuStar had three "file servers" that accepted up to 255 machines. These were the "DSS-10" with a 10MB 8" Winchester drive; the "CDC" with 96MB consisting of 80MB fixed and a 16MB removable platter; and the "Priam" with a 144MB 14" platter winchester. Intertec manufactured the controllers for the last two and an enclosure and power supply for the Priam. CDC had to go on-site to install the 96MB. The SuperBrain was succeeded in 1982 by the SuperBrain II.
  • 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.
  • supragenic — beyond the limits or above the level of genes.
  • surinamese — a native or inhabitant of Suriname.
  • surnominal — relating to surnames
  • surpassing — of a large amount or high degree; exceeding, excelling, or extraordinary: structures of surpassing magnificence.
  • survivance — survival
  • suturation — the act of suturing
  • suzerainty — the position or authority of a suzerain.
  • synandrium — a peculiar fusion of stamens
  • synaxarium — synaxarion.
  • 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.
  • tertullian — (Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus) a.d. c160–c230, Carthaginian theologian.
  • 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.
  • thuringian — a state in central Germany. 5985 sq. mi. (15,550 sq. km) Capital: Erfurt.
  • titanosaur — any amphibious plant-eating dinosaur of the genus Titanosaurus, from the Cretaceous Period, having a long, thin neck and a long, whiplike tail.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • trilingual — using, speaking, or involving three languages.
  • trinocular — of or relating to a binocular microscope equipped with a third lens system for photographic recording.
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