11-letter words containing g, r, o, u, s
- rugosa rose — a shrub, Rosa rugosa, having densely bristled stems, wrinkled leaves, and fragrant red or white flowers.
- sage grouse — a large grouse, Centrocercus urophasianus, of the sagebrush regions of western North America, having plumage of gray, buff, and black.
- sand grouse — any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young.
- sarcophagus — a stone coffin, especially one bearing sculpture, inscriptions, etc., often displayed as a monument.
- scapigerous — having a scape or leafless stalk
- scarborough — a seaport in North Yorkshire, in NE England.
- 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.
- scuppernong — a silvery amber-green variety of muscadine grape.
- see through — Also, see-thru [see-throo] /ˈsiˌθru/ (Show IPA). transparent: a see-through blouse.
- see-through — Also, see-thru [see-throo] /ˈsiˌθru/ (Show IPA). transparent: a see-through blouse.
- serpiginous — (formerly) a creeping or spreading skin disease, as ringworm.
- sit through — endure the whole of
- ski touring — cross-country skiing.
- sleep rough — to spend the night in the open; be without a home or without shelter
- slough over — to gloss over; minimize
- smouldering — burning slowly without flame, usually emitting smoke
- snowsurfing — the use of a board without bindings to travel over snow
- soft ground — an etching ground usually mixed with tallow. Compare hard ground.
- song thrush — a common, European songbird, Turdus philomelos.
- soul-baring — confessing intimate thoughts
- sour grapes — bitterness about sth unattainable
- sour orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
- 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.
- sporogenous — of or relating to spores or spore production.
- sporogonium — the sporangium of mosses and liverworts.
- 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
- 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
- stock guard — a barrier for keeping cattle and other animals off the tracks or right of way.
- 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)
- strong suit — Bridge. a long suit that contains high cards.
- struggle on — If you struggle on, you continue doing something rather than stopping, even though it is difficult.
- study group — an informal gathering of people who convene regularly to exchange ideas and information on a specific subject.
- subcategory — a subordinate category or a division of a category.
- subglobular — globe-shaped; spherical.
- subrogation — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
- sugar grove — sugarbush (def 2).
- sugar spoon — a small spoon for serving granulated sugar, resembling but having a wider bowl than a teaspoon.
- sugar tongs — small tongs used for serving cubed sugar.
- sugarcoated — to cover with sugar: to sugarcoat a pill.
- sulfo group — the univalent group SO 3 H–, derived from sulfuric acid.
- summer-long — lasting all summer
- superegoist — an exceptionally selfish or self-centred person; someone who is very self-important
- supergrowth — exceptional growth; very rapid growth
- superorgasm — an extreme orgasm
- superstrong — extremely strong
- sure enough — free from doubt as to the reliability, character, action, etc., of something: to be sure of one's data.