11-letter words containing c, u, r, s, e
- scuppernong — a silvery amber-green variety of muscadine grape.
- secularized — to make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism.
- secure unit — A secure unit is a building or part of a building where dangerous prisoners or violent psychiatric patients are kept.
- sepulchrous — of the nature of a sepulchre
- sericterium — a silk-producing gland in a silkworm
- sericulture — the raising of silk worms for the production of raw silk.
- service bus — a public bus with a regular route
- sharksucker — any of several remoras, as Echeneis naucrates, usually found attached to sharks.
- snap course — an academic course that can be passed with a minimum of effort.
- sole-source — designating a company contracted, without competition, to be the sole supplier of a product or service, as a firm having an exclusive contract for certain military technology.
- soup course — a part of a meal when soup is served
- sour cherry — a cherry, Prunus cerasus, characterized by gray bark and the spreading habit of its branches.
- source book — an original writing, as a document, record, or diary, that supplies an authoritative basis for future writing, study, evaluation, etc.
- source code — program instructions that must be translated by a compiler, interpreter, or assembler into object code before execution.
- space group — a set of symmetry elements that brings a periodic arrangement of points on a Bravais space lattice to its original position.
- spectacular — of or like a spectacle; marked by or given to an impressive, large-scale display.
- specularity — the state of resembling a mirror
- speculatory — a place suitable for observation
- sperm count — the number of spermatozoa in an amount of semen, used as an indication of a man's fertility
- spice route — an ancient trade route followed by merchants, importers and exporters trading in exotic spices such as cloves and cinnamon
- spruce beer — a fermented beverage made with spruce leaves and twigs, or an extract from them.
- spruce pine — a tall coniferous tree, Pinus glabra, of the southeastern U.S., having smooth, gray bark and needles in bundles of two.
- square inch — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one inch on each side; 6.452 square centimeters. 2 , sq. in. Abbreviation: in.
- squirearchy — the collective body of squires or landed gentry of a country.
- stagestruck — obsessed with the desire to become an actor or actress.
- stake truck — a truck or trailer with a stake body, as for hauling farm animals or feed bags.
- stauroscope — an optical instrument for studying the crystal structure of minerals under polarized light
- stock-route — a public trail having right of way across private properties and over which cattle and sheep may be herded to grazing grounds or to market.
- stonecutter — a person who cuts or carves stone.
- stretch out — lie down, sprawl
- strumectomy — excision of part or all of a goiter.
- stumpsucker — windsucker; cribber.
- sub-article — a written composition in prose, usually nonfiction, on a specific topic, forming an independent part of a book or other publication, as a newspaper or magazine.
- sub-charter — a document, issued by a sovereign or state, outlining the conditions under which a corporation, colony, city, or other corporate body is organized, and defining its rights and privileges.
- sub-culture — Bacteriology. to cultivate (a bacterial strain) again on a new medium.
- sub-project — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
- sub-surface — below the surface, especially of a body of water.
- subcategory — a subordinate category or a division of a category.
- subcellular — contained within a cell.
- subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
- subcultured — Bacteriology. to cultivate (a bacterial strain) again on a new medium.
- subcurative — of a dosage which is not strong enough to have a curing effect
- subdeaconry — the position or office of a subdeacon
- subdirector — an assistant or secondary director
- subliteracy — below average literacy
- submergence — to put or sink below the surface of water or any other enveloping medium.
- subtractive — tending to subtract; having power to subtract.
- subvertical — being in a position or direction perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb.
- sucker bait — an enticement calculated to lure a person into a scheme in which he or she may be victimized.
- sucker list — a list of names and addresses of persons considered by a business, charity organization, etc., to be likely purchasers or donors.