11-letter words containing e, r, o, s, i
- strife-torn — divided by violent conflict or dissent
- strike down — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- strike home — to deliver an effective blow
- strike note — the note produced by a bell when struck, defining its musical pitch
- strike zone — the area above home plate extending from the batter's knees to his or her shoulders.
- strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
- strip poker — a game of poker in which the losers in a hand remove an article of clothing.
- stromateoid — resembling or related to the Stromateidae.
- strong side — the side of the offensive line where the tight end is positioned, thereby the side having the greater number of players.
- styliferous — having a style (part of the female organ of a plant)
- subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
- subdirector — an assistant or secondary director
- subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- subprioress — a nun junior to a prioress
- subvitreous — of the nature of or resembling glass, as in transparency, brittleness, hardness, glossiness, etc.: vitreous china.
- superegoist — an exceptionally selfish or self-centred person; someone who is very self-important
- superheroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- superimpose — to impose, place, or set over, above, or on something else.
- superiority — the quality or condition of being superior.
- 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.
- superpolite — extremely polite
- superprofit — above-average profits gained through enterprise
- supersonics — the branch of science that deals with supersonic phenomena.
- supervision — the act or function of supervising; superintendence.
- supervisory — of, relating to, or having supervision.
- suppression — the act of suppressing.
- surgeonfish — any tropical, coral-reef fish of the family Acanthuridae, with one or more sharp spines near the base of the tail fin.
- surgeonship — the position or responsibility of a surgeon
- swing voter — to cause to move to and fro, sway, or oscillate, as something suspended from above: to swing one's arms in walking.
- swingometer — a device used in television broadcasting during a general election to indicate the swing of votes from one political party to another
- switch over — If you switch over when you are watching television, you change to another channel.
- synchoresis — the act or an instance of conceding an argument in order to make a stronger one
- synchronise — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.
- synchronize — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.
- taboparesis — the occurrence of two conditions (general paresis and tabes dorsalis) at the same time
- tanniferous — containing much tannin; yielding tannin.
- tautomerism — the ability of certain organic compounds to react in isomeric structures that differ from each other in the position of a hydrogen atom and a double bond.
- telesterion — (in ancient Greece) a building in which religious mysteries were celebrated.
- temerarious — reckless; rash.
- tensiometer — an instrument for measuring longitudinal stress in wires, structural beams, etc.
- tensiometry — the study of the measurement of tension
- terpsichore — Classical Mythology. the Muse of dancing and choral song.
- terricolous — living on or in the ground.
- terrigenous — produced by the earth.
- terrorising — to fill or overcome with terror.
- terroristic — a person, usually a member of a group, who uses or advocates terrorism.
- the cornish — the natives or inhabitants of Cornwall
- the forties — the numbers 40–49 in a particular century, esp the 20th century
- the tropics — that part of the earth's surface between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn; the Torrid Zone
- theodorakis — Mikis (ˈmikis). born 1925, Greek composer, who wrote the music for the films Zorba the Greek (1965) and Serpico (1973): imprisoned (1967–70) for his opposition to the Greek military government