10-letter words containing u, r, l
- russophile — a person who is friendly to, admires, or prefers Russia or Russian customs, institutions, etc.
- ruthlessly — without pity or compassion; cruel; merciless: a ruthless tyrant.
- saliferous — containing or producing salt: saliferous strata.
- salubrious — favorable to or promoting health; healthful: salubrious air.
- salutatory — pertaining to or of the nature of a salutation.
- saturnalia — (sometimes used with a plural verb) the festival of Saturn, celebrated in December in ancient Rome as a time of unrestrained merrymaking.
- saucerlike — resembling a saucer
- school run — The school run is the journey that parents make each day when they take their children to school and bring them home from school.
- sclerotium — a vegetative, resting food-storage body in certain higher fungi, composed of a compact mass of hardened mycelia.
- scornfully — full of scorn; derisive; contemptuous: He smiled in a scornful way.
- scriptural — (sometimes initial capital letter) of, relating to, or in accordance with sacred writings, especially the Scriptures.
- scrobicule — a small pit, for example around one of a sea urchin's nodules
- scrofulous — pertaining to, resembling, of the nature of, or affected with scrofula.
- scrub fowl — megapode.
- scrubbable — to rub hard with a brush, cloth, etc., or against a rough surface in washing.
- scrum half — a player who puts in the ball at scrums and tries to get it away to his three-quarter backs
- scrupulous — having scruples, or moral or ethical standards; having or showing a strict regard for what one considers right; principled: scrupulous about defending human rights.
- sculduddry — unchaste behaviour
- sculptress — a woman who practices the art of sculpture.
- sculptural — relating to sculpture
- sculptured — having a surface or shape molded, marked, carved, indented, etc., by or as if by sculpture: sculptured leather belts.
- scurrility — a scurrilous quality or condition.
- scurrilous — grossly or obscenely abusive: a scurrilous attack on the mayor.
- sdrucciola — (of rhymes) triple
- sea turtle — any of several large turtles of the families Cheloniidae and Dermochelyidae, widely distributed in tropical and subtropical seas, having the limbs modified into paddlelike flippers: all sea turtles are either threatened or endangered through most of their range because of ocean pollution.
- secularism — secular spirit or tendency, especially a system of political or social philosophy that rejects all forms of religious faith and worship.
- secularist — secular spirit or tendency, especially a system of political or social philosophy that rejects all forms of religious faith and worship.
- secularity — secular views or beliefs; secularism.
- secularize — to make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism.
- self-guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
- self-trust — reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.
- sepulchral — of, relating to, or serving as a tomb.
- sepultural — the act of placing in a sepulcher or tomb; burial.
- sequestral — a fragment of bone that has become necrotic as a result of disease or injury and has separated from the normal bone structure.
- sexlocular — having six loculi or cells for seeds
- short-haul — of, relating to, or engaged in transportation over short distances: a short-haul trucking firm.
- simulacral — simulacrum.
- simulacrum — a slight, unreal, or superficial likeness or semblance.
- simulatory — to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like): to simulate crisis conditions.
- singularly — extraordinary; remarkable; exceptional: a singular success.
- slanderous — defamation; calumny: rumors full of slander.
- slaughtery — a slaughterhouse
- slide rule — a device for performing mathematical calculations, consisting essentially of a ruler having a sliding piece moving along it, both marked with graduated, usually logarithmic, scales: now largely replaced by the electronic calculator.
- slide-rule — a device for performing mathematical calculations, consisting essentially of a ruler having a sliding piece moving along it, both marked with graduated, usually logarithmic, scales: now largely replaced by the electronic calculator.
- slow virus — a virus that remains dormant in the body for a long time before producing symptoms, as in several neurological diseases, including kuru and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
- sludgeworm — a small freshwater worm, Tubifex tubifex, often inhabiting sewage sludge and the muddy bottoms of lakes, rivers, and pools.
- sluggardly — like or befitting a sluggard; slothful; lazy.
- slumberful — characterized by sleep or slumber
- slumbering — to sleep, especially lightly; doze; drowse.
- slumberous — sleepy; heavy with drowsiness, as the eyelids.