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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
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