10-letter words containing u, r, a, s
- muscle car — a flashy sports car with a large, powerful engine; a hot rod.
- muscularly — In a muscular manner.
- musicianer — (slang) musician.
- muslim era — the period since the flight of Muhammad from Mecca in a.d. 622; Hijra.
- muster day — the annual day for enrollment in the militia of all able men aged 18 to 45, according to a law established in 1792 and in effect until after the Civil War.
- mutessarif — an administrator or governor of a sanjak or province in the former Ottoman Empire
- myrtaceous — belonging to the Myrtaceae, the myrtle family of plants. Compare myrtle family.
- nail brush — small brush for cleaning finger- and toe-nails
- naive user — A luser. Tends to imply someone who is ignorant mainly owing to inexperience. When this is applied to someone who *has* experience, there is a definite implication of stupidity.
- nasturtium — any plant of the genus Tropaeolum, cultivated for its showy, usually orange, red, or yellow flowers or for its fruit, which is pickled and used like capers.
- naturalise — Alternative spelling of naturalize.
- naturalism — Literature. a manner or technique of treating subject matter that presents, through volume of detail, a deterministic view of human life and actions. a deterministic theory of writing in which it is held that a writer should adopt an objective view toward the material written about, be free of preconceived ideas as to form and content, and represent with clinical accuracy and frankness the details of life. Compare realism (def 4b). a representation of natural appearances or natural patterns of speech, manner, etc., in a work of fiction. the depiction of the physical environment, especially landscape or the rural environment.
- naturalist — a person who studies or is an expert in natural history, especially a zoologist or botanist.
- naturistic — Pertaining to naturism (doctrine attributing everything to nature).
- naviculars — Plural form of navicular.
- nectareous — nectarous.
- neurinomas — Plural form of neurinoma.
- neuroblast — an immature nerve cell.
- neuroplasm — the cytoplasm of a nerve cell.
- neurospora — a genus of fast-growing orange-red fungus characterized by markings on the spores resembling axons, used widely in genetic and biochemical research
- neutralise — to make neutral; cause to undergo neutralization.
- neutralism — the policy or advocacy of maintaining strict neutrality in foreign affairs.
- neutralist — a person who advocates or adheres to a policy of strict neutrality in foreign affairs.
- nonsecular — of or relating to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal: secular interests.
- nordhausen — a city in central Germany: site of a former Nazi concentration camp.
- nose guard — middle guard.
- noseguards — Plural form of noseguard.
- nuclearism — a political philosophy maintaining that nuclear weapons are the best means of assuring peace and of attaining political goals.
- nulliparas — Plural form of nullipara.
- numerators — Plural form of numerator.
- nursemaids — Plural form of nursemaid.
- nurseryman — a person who owns or conducts a plant nursery.
- nutrasweet — a brand of artificial sweetener
- oberhausen — a city in W Germany, in the lower Ruhr valley.
- obfuscator — Agent noun of obfuscate; one who obfuscates.
- obituaries — Plural form of obituary.
- obituarist — a notice of the death of a person, often with a biographical sketch, as in a newspaper.
- objurgates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of objurgate.
- obscurants — Plural form of obscurant.
- obturators — Plural form of obturator.
- octamerous — consisting of or divided into eight parts.
- oleraceous — having the qualities or nature of a pot-herb for cookery
- omniparous — producing or generating all things
- opium wars — a war between Great Britain and China that began in 1839 as a conflict over the opium trade and ended in 1842 with the Chinese cession of Hong Kong to the British, the opening of five Chinese ports to foreign merchants, and the grant of other commercial and diplomatic privileges in the Treaty of Nanking.
- orangutans — Plural form of orangutan.
- osculatory — to come into close contact or union.
- outlanders — Plural form of outlander.
- outmeasure — to measure out
- outrageous — of the nature of or involving gross injury or wrong: an outrageous slander.
- outraising — Present participle of outraise.