11-letter words containing g, r, o, s, i, n
- resignation — the act of resigning.
- ring-porous — having annual rings marked by a conspicuous band of large pores in wood formed in spring.
- rising trot — a horse's trot in which the rider rises from the saddle every second beat
- saprolegnia — a variety of fungus
- schrödinbug — (jargon, programming) /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
- schrodinger — Erwin [er-vin] /ˈɛr vɪn/ (Show IPA), 1887–1961, German physicist: Nobel prize 1933.
- scorchingly — in a scorching manner
- segregation — the act or practice of segregating; a setting apart or separation of people or things from others or from the main body or group: gender segregation in some fundamentalist religions.
- seigniorage — something claimed by a sovereign or superior as a prerogative.
- seigniorial — of or relating to a seignior.
- sermonizing — the act of talking as if delivering a sermon
- serpiginous — (formerly) a creeping or spreading skin disease, as ringworm.
- sherrington — Sir Charles Scott, 1861–1952, English physiologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1932.
- shoe-string — a shoelace.
- shortcoming — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
- showrooming — the practice of looking at an item of merchandise in a shop, often using a smartphone app to compare its price elsewhere, before buying it from an online distributor
- sign on for — If you sign on for something, you officially agree to work for an organization or do a course of study by signing a contract or form.
- signatories — having signed, or joined in signing, a document: the signatory powers to a treaty.
- singaporean — an island on the Strait of Singapore, off the S tip of the Malay Peninsula.
- single room — hotel room for one person
- ski touring — cross-country skiing.
- slot racing — the activity of racing slot cars.
- smoking car — smoker (def 2a).
- smouldering — burning slowly without flame, usually emitting smoke
- sniffer dog — a dog trained to find illegal drugs or explosives by smell.
- snorkelling — the activity of swimming with a snorkel
- snow bridge — a mass of snow bridging a crevasse, sometimes affording a risky way across it
- snow grains — precipitation consisting of white, opaque ice particles usually less than one millimeter in diameter.
- snowsurfing — the use of a board without bindings to travel over snow
- soil boring — Soil boring is a technique used to survey soil by taking several shallow cores out of the sediment. It is used when a drilling jacket or jack-up rig is to be supported on the soil.
- songwriting — composing melodies and lyrics
- soul-baring — confessing intimate thoughts
- sovereignly — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
- sovereignty — the quality or state of being sovereign, or of having supreme power or authority.
- sponge iron — finely divided, porous iron, reduced from an oxide at a temperature below the melting point.
- sporogonium — the sporangium of mosses and liverworts.
- spring lock — a lock that fastens automatically by a spring.
- spring roll — an egg roll.
- spring snow — corn snow.
- springboard — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
- 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.
- stenohygric — able to withstand only a narrow range of humidity
- stevedoring — the act or practice of loading or unloading a ship, ship's cargo, etc
- stringboard — a board or facing covering the ends of the steps in a staircase.
- strong side — the side of the offensive line where the tight end is positioned, thereby the side having the greater number of players.
- strong suit — Bridge. a long suit that contains high cards.
- strongpoint — a fortified defensive position; stronghold.
- strongyloid — of or relating to a strongyle
- subrogation — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
- surgeonfish — any tropical, coral-reef fish of the family Acanthuridae, with one or more sharp spines near the base of the tail fin.