10-Letter Words Containing U

Gear first used by one not taking sides

Advocate of nonalignment

Fence-sitter

Country's position that's not in dispute

Non-aligned state

Fence-sitting

Make ineffective.

Counteract

Offset

Work occupies troublesome Luther in cell

Reporters for 'The Field' (wordplay)

Remaining in the nest after hatching until grown or nearly grown. Used of a bird.

Leaving the nest a short time after hatching. Used of a bird.

After-hours trump suit (wordplay)

Dark suit for entertainers (wordplay)

Hot spots for the hip

Any of several drugs derived from furan that are used to inhibit bacterial growth.

NODULE a small node

ACCRUAL an accumulation

AQUATIC an organism living in or near water

AQUEOUS pertaining to water

Nonauthor

Nonconcur

COUNTRY the territory of a nation

Not current or belonging to the present time. Opposite of current.current.

DURABLE {hardy=adj}

Class acts get ecstasy of that kind in regular services

""FACTUAL actual, real""

FACULTY an inherent power or ability

Not of iron or steel

Of a metal other than iron or steel

Negative intelligence gathering following blunder showing pseudo-irony? Not so

""FLUENCY the quality of being fluent, also FLUENCE""

Substantive, like a solid or liquid

HOUSING any dwelling house

Nonhunter

HUNTING an instance of searching

INSURED one who is insured

Nonlegume

Nonliquid

Tone-deaf, say

Nonmutant

Forced on regular after noon

Artificial

NUCLEAR pertaining to a {nucleus=n}

OBVIOUS easily understood

Inflected form of PLUSING Inflected form of PLUS to {increase=v}

* It doesn't mean "subtracted"

Surprised and confused

Perplexed - and apparently not put on

Bewilders

Baffles.

Confounds

ROUTINE a regular course of procedure

SERIOUS thoughtful or subdued in appearance

STUDENT a person formally engaged in learning

American, to a British monarch

SUCCESS the attainment of something desired or intended

Nonsuit

Lack of help from the second half

TENURED tenure

Heterogeneous

Irregular

UTILITY the quality of being useful

""UTOPIAN one who believes in the perfectibility of human society, also UTOPIST""

VISCOUS having relatively high resistance to flow

Going towards Arctic

On the map, going up in the world

Sentries in front of the airplane (wordplay)

Defensive linemen

They face centers on the line of scrimmage

Nourisher

Rhino using ground for feeding

Strengthening

Nutritious

Rock used for whetstones.

Nubility

Nucleate

NUCLEATE to form into a nucleus

Nucleator

Zodiacal atomic study (wordplay)

Field of atomic science

""A type of molecule found in all living organisms, present mostly in chemically combined form as a component of nucleic acids, and also in smaller amounts in free form, consisting of a pentose sugar bound to a purine or pyrimidine base; two types of nucleoside, ribonucleoside and deoxyribonucleoside, are present. The most common bases present in nucleosides are adenine, cytosine, uracil, guanine, and thymine, and to a lesser extent hypoxanthine and other bases are found. The most commmon ribonucleosides composed from these bases are called adenosine, cytidine, uridine, and guanosine. The forms esterified with orthophosphoric at the 5-position of the pentose are called nucleotides. The nucleotides form the monomer units which are combined into DNA and RNA, which carry the genetic information required for reproduction in all known organisms.ribonucleoside and deoxyribonucleoside, are present. The most common bases present in nucleosides are adenine, cytosine, uracil, guanine, and thymine, and to a lesser extent hypoxanthine and other bases are found. The most commmon ribonucleosides composed from these bases are called adenosine, cytidine, uridine, and guanosine. The forms esterified with orthophosphoric at the 5-position of the pentose are called nucleotides. The nucleotides form the monomer units which are combined into DNA and RNA, which carry the genetic information required for reproduction in all known organisms.""

""Any of the repeating subunits of chromatin, consisting of a DNA chain coiled around a core of histones.""

DNA building block

Genetic building block

Phosphate and sugar linked in this compound; once dilute (anagram)

Nudeness

Back horse with one limb, 'Sea Slug'

A sea slug

Sea slug with one brown back limb

Nullifier

Rendering void

Cancelling out

NUMBER to {count=v}

Too many to count

Very many like identification using letters only (wordplay)

Uncountable

Numbfish

Numbness

Miners shift bulks for pounds, the fools

More than one of those in 24 down has no feeling for old heads

Stupid people lacking feeling for rowing race, we hear

Numeracy

Numerate

The act or art of numbering.

They're the tops for calculating people!

Parts of fractions

Top figures

Quantitative "science" (wordplay)

Occult interpretation of numbers

NUMEROUS {many=adj}

Numinous

Pertaining to collectors' items.

Relating to coins or currency

Of coins

The office of a nuncio.

NUPTIAL a {wedding=n}

Hyde Park V.I.P.'s

Predecessors of the baby sitter.

Household caretakers

One who sells plants

Pediatrician (wordplay)

One who grows plants

Runny meres (anagram)

Growers and sellers of plants

Hothouse workers

The providing of loving care and attention.

NUTATION a {nodding=n}

Ball-breaker sounding sweet (wordplay)

Tchaikovsky's cocktail (wordplay)

High flier's suite (wordplay)

Nutgrass

Small birds.

Birds known for their cracking ability (see letters 3-8)

Birds.

Foods unhappy men trust in

Foods.

Food

Nutrition

Teachers' recipe? It promises to be wholesome!

Suitor with unit adapted to be good for him

Nourishing

Oasthouse

Obduracy

""OBDURATE to become hard-hearted, also OBDURE""

Made unintelligible

Obscured or darkened, bewildered or perplexed

Beclouded

Arranges a best focus? Not at all!

Doesn't clarify puzzles (wordplay)

Makes confusing intentionally

A newspaper's deadlines (wordplay)

Late news (wordplay)

The last writes (wordplay)

Issuer of final notices

Newspaper contributor whose features are always late

OBJURGATE To chide; to reprove.

Objurgate

To cloud; to obscure.

Obscurant

Deferential.

Sycophantic

Sycophantic.

Blocked

OBSTRUCT to get in the way of

Obtrusion

Obturate

""The act of stopping up, or closing, an opening.""

Obturator

Set bonuses distributed with insensitivity

Output from quite useless boiler? Sense perverse, slow-witted quality

Obtusity

Bite matchups, to a dentist

Bite matchups, in dental X-rays

Closings

Occultism

Believers in the supernatural

Calling for work (wordplay)

Cop working with caution - it's his job!

An orphan in The Idiot

A happening that happens to happen

Soldier mostly in the news at Clare event

Incident of dog trapped in setting concrete, time being short

Occurrent

Aquatic exhibit in Lisbon

Saltwater marine display

Water park

Ocularist

Like nerves acting on eye muscles

Harem women

Repulsive quality

Throat to stomach link

Passage bringing about reduction in fare (wordplay)

Food transporter heard to gradually reduce an endless effusion

Supply, eg oil? No, USA is rich in oil

Rich in oil; fawning or sycophantic

Unctuous.

Resembling the olive; of the color of the olive; olivegreen.

Ololiuqui

""One of the single eyes forming the compound eyes of crustaceans, insects, and other invertebrates.""

Feeding on any kind of food available

Like seagulls and grizzly bears

All-devouring

Hard-to-handle rushes

Powerful thrusts

Attacks on lass out of order - unruly thug to be locked up

Dark film cast left in a screw steamer

Unintelligibility

Opercular

OPERCULA operculum

Operculum

Ophiuroid

Censure work for one in Birmingham

State, cause, of disgrace

Short study on Republican consumed by addictive drug leads to public disgrace

Opulency

ORACULAR pertaining to an oracle

Denizens of Sumatra

Shaggy-haired ones from Borneo

Apes.

""That which is orbiculate; especially, a solid the vertical section of which is oval, and the horizontal section circular.""

Love plumpness? It's a puffed-up quality

Pompous style of speaking.

The quality of resonant speech

Osculate

Act of kissing

Spooning Pasteur's third inoculation (wordplay)

Performance of coital nous in close contact

Of or pertaining to kissing; kissing.

Pl. osmeteria (-tîr - ) An eversible glandular sac on the first thoracic segment of many caterpillars that secretes an unpleasant-smelling substance to ward off predators.

""A mineral that is a natural alloy of osmium and iridium with small inclusions of platinum, rhodium, and other metals, used in needles and wearing points. Also called iridosmine .""

Of another kind or sort; in another way.

Dungeons or cells with access only via the ceiling

Word with prefix out-

Outargue

More than compensate for inaccurate scales (wordplay)

Word with prefix out-

Outbark

Outbawl

Outbeam

Outbeg

Outbid

Outbitch

Outbitch

Outblaze

Outbleat

Outbless

Outbless

Outbloom

Outbluff

Outblush

Outblush

Outboast

Outbrag

Outbrave

Outbrawl

Outbribe

Outbulk

Outbully

Outbully

Outburn

Outcaper

Outcatch

Outcavil

OUTCHARGE

Outcharge

Outcharm

Outcheat

OUTCHIDE to surpass in chiding

Outchide

Surpassed in quality

Beaten in quality

Beaten on quality

Is distinctly ahead of

Puts in the shade.

Beats decisively

Outclimb

Outcoach

Outcoach

Beat favourite in effect

Best rivals to compute creatively on Earth

Outcook

Outcount

Outcrawl

Outcrop

Outcross

Outcross

Outcrow

Outcurse