10-letter words containing rus
- haruspices — Plural form of haruspex.
- incrusting — Present participle of incrust.
- intrusions — an act or instance of intruding.
- intrusting — Present participle of intrust.
- jack truss — any of a number of trapezoidal trusses for supporting those areas of a hip roof not beneath the peak or ridge, parallel to the truss or trusses that meet at the peak or ridge.
- khrushchev — Nikita S(ergeyevich) [ni-kee-tuh sur-gey-uh-vich;; Russian nyi-kyee-tuh syir-gye-yuh-vyich] /nɪˈki tə sɜrˈgeɪ ə vɪtʃ;; Russian nyɪˈkyi tə syɪrˈgyɛ yə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1894–1971, Russian political leader: premier of the U.S.S.R. 1958–64.
- king truss — a truss having a king post.
- lentivirus — any slow virus of the genus Lentivirus, of the retrovirus family, causing brain disease in sheep and other animals.
- megathrust — (geology) A sudden slip along a fault between a subducting and an overriding plate; results in a major earthquake.
- metoestrus — metestrus.
- mistrusted — Simple past tense and past participle of mistrust.
- mistruster — One who mistrusts.
- nail brush — small brush for cleaning finger- and toe-nails
- nonrusting — That does not rust; rustproof.
- obstrusive — Misspelling of obtrusive.
- out-thrust — thrust or extended outward: a friendly, outthrust hand.
- outthrusts — Plural form of outthrust.
- overthrust — a thrust fault with a low dip and a large slip.
- paintbrush — a brush for applying paint, as one used in painting houses or one used in painting pictures.
- parvovirus — Veterinary Pathology. a highly contagious, often fatal viral disease of dogs, characterized by vomiting, severe diarrhea, and depression and accompanied by high fever and loss of appetite.
- phosphorus — Chemistry. a solid, nonmetallic element existing in at least three allotropic forms, one that is yellow, poisonous, flammable, and luminous in the dark, one that is red, less poisonous, and less flammable, and another that is black, insoluble in most solvents, and the least flammable. The element is used in forming smoke screens, its compounds are used in matches and phosphate fertilizers, and it is a necessary constituent of plant and animal life in bones, nerves, and embryos. Symbol: P; atomic weight: 30.974; atomic number: 15; specific gravity: (yellow) 1.82 at 20°C, (red) 2.20 at 20°C, (black) 2.25–2.69 at 20°C.
- poliovirus — any of three picornaviruses of the genus Enterovirus, having a spherical capsid, infectious to humans and the cause of poliomyelitis.
- pony truss — a through bridge truss having its deck between the top and bottom chords and having no top lateral bracing.
- procrustes — a robber who stretched or amputated the limbs of travelers to make them conform to the length of his bed. He was killed by Theseus.
- protrusile — capable of being thrust forth or extended, as the tongue of a hummingbird.
- protrusion — the act of protruding or the state of being protruded.
- protrusive — projecting or protuberant; thrusting forward, upward, or outward.
- pultrusion — a process for manufacturing reinforced plastic products in which a bundle of glass fibres is pulled through a resin bath and then through a heated die to shape the resin
- pyrophorus — a substance which ignites when exposed to air
- retrovirus — any of a family of single-stranded RNA viruses having a helical envelope and containing an enzyme that allows for a reversal of genetic transcription, from RNA to DNA rather than the usual DNA to RNA, the newly transcribed viral DNA being incorporated into the host cell's DNA strand for the production of new RNA retroviruses: the family includes the AIDS virus and certain oncogene-carrying viruses implicated in various cancers.
- rhinovirus — any of a varied and widespread group of picornaviruses responsible for many respiratory diseases, including the common cold.
- rush light — a candle made from a dried, partly peeled rush that has been dipped in grease.
- rush order — an order for goods required urgently
- russellite — a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses.
- russetting — a boot or a piece of russet clothing
- russianize — to make Russian; impart Russian characteristics to.
- russophile — a person who is friendly to, admires, or prefers Russia or Russian customs, institutions, etc.
- russophobe — a person who hates or fears Russia or the Russians.
- rust joint — (in plumbing and metalwork) a watertight joint made between two pieces by rusting them together.
- rustbucket — an old, run-down freighter, especially one whose hull is covered with rust.
- rusticator — to go to the country.
- rusticness — of, relating to, or living in the country, as distinguished from towns or cities; rural.
- rusty iron — (jargon, hardware) Synonym tired iron. It has been claimed that this is the inevitable fate of water MIPS.
- self-trust — reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.
- semichorus — half of a chorus; part of a chorus to be sung by a portion but not all of the singers
- shortcrust — light crumbly pastry
- 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.
- snow crust — a relatively hard, upper layer or film of ice or compacted snow on a snow surface.
- spike-rush — any perennial plant of the temperate cyperaceous genus Eleocharis, occurring esp by ponds, and having underground stems, narrow leaves, and small flowers
- subcrustal — situated or occurring below the crust of the earth.