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11-letter words containing a, l, u, n, o

  • round table — conference, meeting
  • round-table — noting or pertaining to a conference, discussion, or deliberation in which each participant has equal status, equal time to present views, etc.: round-table discussions.
  • sacculation — formed into or having a saccule, sac, or saclike dilation.
  • saint louis — Saint, 1214?–70, king of France 1226–70.
  • saint-cloud — a city in central Minnesota, on the Mississippi.
  • saint-louis — a port in E Missouri, on the Mississippi.
  • salon music — music of a simple, agreeable, frequently sentimental character, played usually by a small orchestra.
  • salsuginous — full of salt or able to grow in salty soil
  • salting out — the addition of salt to a mixture to precipitate proteins, soaps, and other simple organic compounds.
  • salting-out — Salting-out is the effect when adding a salt to a solvent containing an organic solute reduces the solubility of that solute.
  • salutations — the act of saluting.
  • sansculotte — (originally) a revolutionary of the poorer class
  • serrulation — serrulate condition or form.
  • situational — manner of being situated; location or position with reference to environment: The situation of the house allowed for a beautiful view.
  • slop around — to spill or splash (liquid).
  • social fund — (in Britain) a social security fund from which loans or payments may be made to people in cases of extreme need
  • social unit — a person or a group of persons, as a family, functioning as a unit in society.
  • soft launch — the launch of a website in stages, with regular updating
  • solanaceous — belonging to the Solanaceae, the nightshade family of plants.
  • soluble rna — a small RNA molecule, consisting of a strand of nucleotides folded into a clover-leaf shape, that picks up an unattached amino acid within the cell cytoplasm and conveys it to the ribosome for protein synthesis. Abbreviation: tRNA.
  • somnambular — relating to sleep-walking
  • soul-baring — confessing intimate thoughts
  • sound-alike — a person or thing that resembles another in sound
  • southlander — a person from the south
  • speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
  • spiculation — formation into spicules.
  • sporulation — to produce spores.
  • stimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
  • stipulation — a condition, demand, or promise in an agreement or contract.
  • subchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
  • subcolumnar — almost or imperfectly columnar.
  • subdiaconal — of or relating to a subdeacon.
  • sublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
  • subluxation — a partial dislocation, as of a joint; sprain.
  • subnational — of, relating to, or maintained by a nation as an organized whole or independent political unit: national affairs.
  • subrational — less than or almost rational.
  • sulfonamide — sulfa drug.
  • sulfonation — the process of attaching the sulfonic acid group, –SO 3 H, directly to carbon in an organic compound.
  • sulfuration — to combine, treat, or impregnate with sulfur, the fumes of burning sulfur, etc.
  • supernormal — in excess of the normal or average: supernormal faculties; supernormal production.
  • suspicional — of or relating to suspicion, especially morbid or insane suspicions.
  • synsepalous — gamosepalous.
  • talk around — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
  • teaspoonful — the amount a teaspoon can hold.
  • tenaciously — holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold (often followed by of): a tenacious grip on my arm; tenacious of old habits.
  • think aloud — If you think aloud, you express your thoughts as they occur to you, rather than thinking first and then speaking.
  • tollund man — the perfectly preserved remains of an Iron Age man, hanged and thrown into a bog at Tollund, in Jutland, Denmark: discovered in 1950.
  • tonal music — music that uses the diatonic system
  • tonal value — the relative lightness or darkness of shades between black and white
  • tongue-lash — to reprimand severely; scold
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