11-letter words containing e, n, t, r, u
- secure unit — A secure unit is a building or part of a building where dangerous prisoners or violent psychiatric patients are kept.
- seminatural — partly natural and partly cultivated
- sempiternum — a type of durable woollen fabric popular in the 17th century
- sentry duty — the duty of serving as a sentry
- septenarius — a verse consisting of seven feet, usually printed in two lines: used especially in Latin poems.
- sequestrant — any substance used to bring about sequestration, often by chelation. They are used in horticulture to counteract lime in the soil
- serrulation — serrulate condition or form.
- sertularian — a type of hydroid that forms stiff, feathery colonies in which the cups holding the zooids are sessile.
- shower unit — fitted shower
- sojournment — the state of sojourning
- soup tureen — a large bowl with a lid, from which soup is served at the table
- southernism — a pronunciation, expression, or behavioral trait characteristic of the U.S. South.
- southernize — to make or become southern
- southlander — a person from the south
- sperm count — the number of spermatozoa in an amount of semen, used as an indication of a man's fertility
- spitzenburg — any of several red or yellow varieties of apple that ripen in the autumn.
- square knot — a common knot in which the ends come out alongside of the standing parts.
- st. laurent — Louis Stephen [lwee ste-fen] /lwi stɛˈfɛn/ (Show IPA), 1882–1973, prime minister of Canada 1948–57.
- staff nurse — nurse who works on a ward
- stan laurel — Stan (Arthur Stanley Jefferson) 1890–1965, U.S. motion-picture actor and comedian, born in England.
- stentorious — stentorian.
- sternutator — a chemical agent causing nose irritation, coughing, etc.
- stone fruit — a fruit with a stone or hard endocarp, as a peach or plum; drupe.
- stonecutter — a person who cuts or carves stone.
- stoneground — (of wheat or other grain) ground between millstones, especially those made of burstone, so as to retain the whole of the grain and preserve nutritional content.
- stramineous — of or resembling straw.
- strangulate — Pathology, Surgery. to compress or constrict (a duct, intestine, vessel, etc.) so as to prevent circulation or suppress function.
- strengthful — full of strength, strong
- strenuosity — characterized by vigorous exertion, as action, efforts, life, etc.: a strenuous afternoon of hunting.
- strenuously — characterized by vigorous exertion, as action, efforts, life, etc.: a strenuous afternoon of hunting.
- strike fund — an amount of money reserved by a union to make payments to striking works should a strike occur
- strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
- struggle on — If you struggle on, you continue doing something rather than stopping, even though it is difficult.
- stunt flier — someone who performs stunts in an aeroplane, such as special turns, etc, in the air
- subinterval — an interval that is a subset of a given interval.
- subminister — to supply
- subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- subservient — serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.
- subterminal — situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
- suburbanite — a person who lives in a suburb of a city or large town.
- sun bittern — a graceful South American wading bird, Eurypyga helias, related to the cranes and rails, having variegated plumage.
- superaltern — a universal proposition that is the basis for the immediate inference of a corresponding particular proposition.
- supercenter — a very large shopping centre or complex
- superdainty — very dainty
- superinfect — to infect further with an additional infection
- superintend — to oversee and direct (work, processes, etc.).
- superjacent — lying above or upon something else.
- supernatant — floating above or on the surface.
- 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.
- supernature — the supernatural