11-letter words containing a, s, o, u, n
- 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.
- sam houston — Sam(uel) 1793–1863, U.S. soldier and political leader: president of the Republic of Texas 1836–38 and 1841–44.
- san joaquin — a river in California, flowing NW from the Sierra Nevada Mountains to the Sacramento River. 350 miles (560 km) long.
- sand grouse — any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young.
- sanguineous — of, relating to, or containing blood.
- sansculotte — (originally) a revolutionary of the poorer class
- saponaceous — resembling soap; soapy.
- sauropsidan — relating to the Sauropsida or animals belonging to the Sauriodea group in Huxley's classification
- send around — to put into circulation
- serrulation — serrulate condition or form.
- shootaround — an informal match or practice session
- shop around — compare prices
- show around — guide round a new place
- simon magus — Simon (defs 5, 6).
- 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).
- snap course — an academic course that can be passed with a minimum of effort.
- snap out of — to make a sudden, sharp, distinct sound; crack, as a whip; crackle.
- sneak up on — If someone sneaks up on you, they try and approach you without being seen or heard, perhaps to surprise you or do you harm.
- 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 stage — a large, soundproof studio used for filming motion pictures.
- sound-alike — a person or thing that resembles another in sound
- sour orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
- south sudan — a landlocked republic in NE Africa, in the Sahel region; formerly part of Sudan: became independent after a referendum in 2011, following a long civil war. Languages: English, Arabic. Religions: Christian, animist. Currency: South Sudanese Pound. Capital: Juba. Pop: 11 090 104 (2013 est). Area: 644 329 sq km (248 777 sq miles)
- southampton — Henry Wriothesley [rahy-uh ths-lee] /ˈraɪ əθs li/ (Show IPA), 3rd Earl of, 1573–1624, English nobleman, soldier, and patron of writers, including William Shakespeare.
- 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.
- spontaneous — coming or resulting from a natural impulse or tendency; without effort or premeditation; natural and unconstrained; unplanned: a spontaneous burst of applause.
- sporulation — to produce spores.
- square knot — a common knot in which the ends come out alongside of the standing parts.
- squarsonage — the residence of a squarson
- squassation — a form of strappado in which the victim, with arms bound behind and feet heavily weighted, was jerked up and down at the end of a rope passed under the arms.
- staminodium — a sterile or abortive stamen.
- stand up to — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
- sternutator — a chemical agent causing nose irritation, coughing, etc.