11-letter words containing a, s, o, u, n
- 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.
- stockhausen — Karlheinz [kahrl-hahynts] /ˈkɑrlˌhaɪnts/ (Show IPA), 1928–2007, German composer.
- stramineous — of or resembling straw.
- stunt woman — a woman who substitutes for an actor in scenes requiring hazardous or acrobatic feats.
- sub-company — subsidiary company.
- subarration — an ancient way of marrying by giving a ring or gift
- subaudition — an act or instance of understanding or mentally supplying something not expressed.
- subchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
- subcolumnar — almost or imperfectly columnar.
- subcontract — a contract by which one agrees to render services or to provide materials necessary for the performance of another contract.
- subcontrary — one of two propositions that can both be true but cannot both be false.
- subdeaconry — the position or office of a subdeacon
- subdiaconal — of or relating to a subdeacon.
- subdominant — Music. the fourth tone of a diatonic scale, next below the dominant.
- subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
- subitaneous — sudden
- subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
- 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.
- subordinacy — a subordinate person or thing.
- subordinary — any of several heraldic bearings of secondary importance to the ordinary, such as the lozenge, the orle, and the fret
- subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- subornation — to bribe or induce (someone) unlawfully or secretly to perform some misdeed or to commit a crime.
- subpanation — the belief that the body and blood of Christ are present in the bread and wine of Communion
- subpoenaing — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
- subrational — less than or almost rational.
- subrogation — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
- subtraction — an act or instance of subtracting.
- suffixation — Grammar. an affix that follows the element to which it is added, as -ly in kindly.
- suffocation — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- sugar spoon — a small spoon for serving granulated sugar, resembling but having a wider bowl than a teaspoon.
- sugar tongs — small tongs used for serving cubed sugar.
- 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.
- superabound — to abound beyond something else.
- supernation — a large body of people, associated with a particular territory, that is sufficiently conscious of its unity to seek or to possess a government peculiarly its own: The president spoke to the nation about the new tax.
- supernormal — in excess of the normal or average: supernormal faculties; supernormal production.
- superweapon — an extremely powerful weapon
- suppuration — the process of suppurating.
- suraddition — an additional title
- surrogation — a person appointed to act for another; deputy.
- suscitation — the act of suscitating
- suspicional — of or relating to suspicion, especially morbid or insane suspicions.
- suspiration — a long, deep sigh.
- sustentator — a sustaining part or structure
- susurration — a soft murmur; whisper.