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11-letter words containing h, i, r, s, u

  • rush family — the plant family Juncaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having narrow, grasslike leaves, small and greenish flowers, and capsular fruit with three compartments, comprising the true rushes.
  • russophobia — an intense and often irrational hatred for Russia, or esp the former Soviet Union, its political system, etc
  • saurischian — any herbivorous or carnivorous dinosaur of the order Saurischia, having a three-pronged pelvis resembling that of a crocodile. Compare ornithischian.
  • 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.
  • schweinfurt — a city in N Bavaria, in S central Germany, on the Main River.
  • semishrubby — somewhat resembling a shrub; shrubby in some respects; having characteristics somewhat like those of a shrub; partly covered in shrubs
  • share issue — When there is a share issue, shares in a company are made available for people to buy.
  • shipbuilder — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
  • shower unit — fitted shower
  • shroud-laid — noting a fiber rope of four strands laid right-handed with or without a heart.
  • shroud-line — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
  • shrubberied — having a shrubbery
  • sit through — endure the whole of
  • south river — a borough in central New Jersey.
  • southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
  • southernism — a pronunciation, expression, or behavioral trait characteristic of the U.S. South.
  • southernize — to make or become southern
  • sphaeridium — a round body found on sea urchins
  • 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.
  • spur blight — a disease of raspberries, characterized by reddish-brown spots on the stems, caused by a fungus, Didymella applanata.
  • square inch — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one inch on each side; 6.452 square centimeters. 2 , sq. in. Abbreviation: in.
  • square with — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
  • squirearchy — the collective body of squires or landed gentry of a country.
  • straight up — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
  • straight-up — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
  • sub-chronic — constant; habitual; inveterate: a chronic liar.
  • subchairman — a subordinate or substitute chairman.
  • subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
  • subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
  • súgán chair — a chair with a seat made from woven súgáns
  • sun-worship — the act of worshipping the sun as a deity
  • superbright — exceptionally bright
  • supercherie — deception, trickery or an instance thereof
  • superheroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
  • 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
  • survey ship — a vessel designed to carry out research and surveying
  • third house — a legislative lobby.
  • thuriferous — producing frankincense
  • triphibious — employing or involving land, naval, and air forces in a combined operation.
  • triphyllous — having three leaves.
  • tristichous — arranged in three rows.
  • trisulphide — any sulphide containing three sulphur atoms per molecule
  • trumpetfish — any of several fishes of the family Aulostomidae, having a long, tubular snout, as the slender, brown-flecked Aulostomus maculatus, inhabiting waters on both sides of the tropical Atlantic Ocean, having the habit of orienting vertically in the water and capturing its prey from that position.
  • trusteeship — Law. the office or function of a trustee.
  • turishcheva — Ludmilla (lʊdˈmɪlə). born 1952, Soviet gymnast: world champion 1970, 1972 (at the Olympic Games), and 1974
  • turkish rug — any of a large variety of handwoven rugs produced in Turkey, characterized by coarse, heavy yarn and a long, uneven pile.
  • turkish van — a breed of cat with soft white semi-long hair and coloured markings on the head and tail
  • ulotrichous — belonging to a group of people having woolly or crisply curly hair.
  • unburnished — to polish (a surface) by friction.
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