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10-letter words containing u, r, a, s

  • radius rod — (in a feathering paddle wheel) any of the rods, meeting in a hub mounted eccentrically with the paddle-wheel shaft, for feathering the paddles while in the water.
  • rafinesque — Constantine Samuel, 1783–1840, U.S. naturalist, born in Turkey.
  • rainsquall — squall1 (def 1).
  • raisonneur — a character in a play, novel, or the like who voices the central theme, philosophy, or point of view of the work.
  • ramboesque — looking or behaving like, or characteristic of, Rambo, a fictional film character noted for his mindless brutality
  • rampageous — violent; unruly; boisterous.
  • rampasture — a large attic room.
  • ranivorous — that eats frogs
  • ranunculus — any ranunculaceous plant of the genus Ranunculus, having finely divided leaves and typically yellow five-petalled flowers. The genus includes buttercup, crowfoot, spearwort, and lesser celandine
  • ravenously — extremely hungry; famished; voracious: feeling ravenous after a hard day's work.
  • re-arousal — arousal for a second or further time
  • reaccustom — to familiarize by custom or use; habituate: to accustom oneself to cold weather.
  • readjusted — to adjust again or anew; rearrange.
  • reassuring — to restore to assurance or confidence: His praise reassured me.
  • recusation — the act of recusing a judge
  • red guards — a member of a Chinese Communist youth movement in the late 1960s, committed to the militant support of Mao Zedong.
  • red square — a large, open square in central Moscow, adjacent to the Kremlin: site of military parades, Lenin's tomb, and St. Basil's cathedral.
  • regularise — to make regular.
  • reissuable — (of notes, bills, money, etc) able to be reissued
  • repoussage — the art or process of working in repoussé.
  • repurchase — to buy again; regain by purchase.
  • requiescat — a wish or prayer for the repose of the dead.
  • residually — in a residual manner.
  • restaurant — an establishment where meals are served to customers.
  • resupinate — bent backward.
  • resurfaced — to give a new surface to.
  • resurfacer — a machine or tool used for resurfacing
  • rheumatics — pertaining to or of the nature of rheumatism.
  • rheumatism — any disorder of the extremities or back, characterized by pain and stiffness.
  • riot squad — a group of police officers having special training and equipment for quelling riots and other public disturbances.
  • ritualised — to practice ritualism.
  • romanesque — noting or pertaining to the style of architecture prevailing in western or southern Europe from the 9th through the 12th centuries, characterized by heavy masonry construction with narrow openings, features such as the round arch, the groin vault, and the barrel vault, and the introduction or development of the vaulting rib, the vaulting shaft, and central and western towers for churches.
  • root cause — origin
  • rough-sawn — (of wood) used as originally cut, without smoothing or sanding: shingles of rough-sawn cedar.
  • rouseabout — an unskilled labourer in a shearing shed
  • roustabout — a wharf laborer or deck hand, as on the Mississippi River.
  • rubiaceous — belonging to the Rubiaceae, the madder family of plants.
  • ruby glass — glass having a red color resulting from the addition of gold, copper, or selenium to the batch.
  • ruby laser — a solid-state, pulsed laser that uses a ruby crystal to produce a very strong beam of red coherent light, used in making holographs and in cosmetic instruments.
  • ruffianish — like a ruffian
  • ruffianism — conduct befitting a ruffian.
  • rumfustian — a type of spiced nightcap made with beer
  • rump steak — Rump or rump steak is meat cut from the rear end of a cow.
  • run a risk — exposure to the chance of injury or loss; a hazard or dangerous chance: It's not worth the risk.
  • run across — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
  • run scared — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
  • rupestrian — made or found on cave walls or rocks
  • russianize — to make Russian; impart Russian characteristics to.
  • rusticator — to go to the country.
  • saharanpur — a city in NW Uttar Pradesh, in N India.
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