11-letter words containing g, e, s, u
- smouldering — burning slowly without flame, usually emitting smoke
- sneezeguard — a plastic or glass shield overhanging a salad bar, buffet, or the like to protect the food from contamination.
- sound stage — a large, soundproof studio used for filming motion pictures.
- sour grapes — bitterness about sth unattainable
- sour orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
- south ogden — a town in N Utah.
- southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
- space group — a set of symmetry elements that brings a periodic arrangement of points on a Bravais space lattice to its original position.
- specialogue — a mail-order catalogue aimed at a specific group of customers
- speculating — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- spitzenburg — any of several red or yellow varieties of apple that ripen in the autumn.
- sporogenous — of or relating to spores or spore production.
- spotted gum — an Australian eucalyptus tree, Eucalyptus maculata
- springhouse — a small storehouse built over a spring or part of a brook, for keeping such foods as meat and dairy products cool and fresh.
- squarsonage — the residence of a squarson
- squeakingly — in a squeaking manner
- squirreling — any of numerous arboreal, bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Sciurus, of the family Sciuridae.
- stagestruck — obsessed with the desire to become an actor or actress.
- staggerbush — an ericaceous deciduous shrub, Lyonia mariana, of E North America, having white or pinkish flowers: it is poisonous to livestock
- steamer rug — a coarse, heavy lap robe used by ship passengers sitting in deck chairs.
- stegosaurus — any of a suborder (Stegosauria) of large ornithischian dinosaurs of the Upper Jurassic having a small head and heavy bony plates with sharp spikes down the backbone
- 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.
- storm surge — an abnormal rise in the level of the sea along a coast caused by the onshore winds of a severe cyclone.
- stourbridge — an industrial town in W central England, in Dudley unitary authority, West Midlands. Pop: 55 480 (2001)
- strangulate — Pathology, Surgery. to compress or constrict (a duct, intestine, vessel, etc.) so as to prevent circulation or suppress function.
- street luge — the sport of racing down a paved incline on a wheeled sled, in a supine position.
- strengthful — full of strength, strong
- struggle on — If you struggle on, you continue doing something rather than stopping, even though it is difficult.
- sub-heading — a title or heading of a subdivision, as in a chapter, essay, or newspaper article.
- sub-manager — a person who has control or direction of an institution, business, etc., or of a part, division, or phase of it.
- sub-segment — a part or division of a segment.
- subcategory — a subordinate category or a division of a category.
- subfreezing — below the freezing point.
- subirrigate — to irrigate beneath the surface of the ground, as with water passing through a system of underground porous pipes or transmitted through the subsoil from ditches, etc.
- sublanguage — a subvariety of language used in a particular field or by a particular social group and characterized especially by distinctive vocabulary.
- submergence — to put or sink below the surface of water or any other enveloping medium.
- submergible — submersible.
- subpoenaing — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
- subsegments — a part or division of a segment.
- subungulate — any member of the superorder of animal termed Subungulata (also called Paenungulata), containing the elephant, sea cow and hyrax, as well as two extinct orders
- suffragette — a woman advocate of female suffrage.
- suffumigate — to fumigate from below; apply fumes or smoke to.
- sugar apple — sweetsop.
- sugar grove — sugarbush (def 2).
- sugar maple — any of several maples having a sweet sap, especially Acer saccharum (the state tree of New York, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin), having a short trunk and long, curving branches, yielding a hard wood used for making furniture and being the chief source of maple sugar.
- sugar-cured — (especially of ham or bacon) cured in a mixture of sugar, salt, and sodium nitrate or sodium nitrite.
- sugarcoated — to cover with sugar: to sugarcoat a pill.
- suggestible — subject to or easily influenced by suggestion.
- suggestions — the act of suggesting.
- sui generis — of his, her, its, or their own kind; unique.