11-letter words containing i, n, t, u, s
- second unit — an additional crew on a film production, usually used at a second location for filming crowd scenes, exteriors, and other shots that do not require the principal actors.
- secure unit — A secure unit is a building or part of a building where dangerous prisoners or violent psychiatric patients are kept.
- seminatural — partly natural and partly cultivated
- sempiternum — a type of durable woollen fabric popular in the 17th century
- senectitude — the last stage of life; old age.
- sententious — abounding in pithy aphorisms or maxims: a sententious book.
- septenarius — a verse consisting of seven feet, usually printed in two lines: used especially in Latin poems.
- serrulation — serrulate condition or form.
- sertularian — a type of hydroid that forms stiff, feathery colonies in which the cups holding the zooids are sessile.
- shine up to — to give forth or glow with light; shed or cast light.
- shower unit — fitted shower
- shunamitism — the rejuvenation of an old man by sleeping with a young woman, although not necessarily having sex with her
- singularist — someone who advocates singularism
- singularity — the state, fact, or quality of being singular.
- singulative — a grammatical form or construction that expresses a singular entity or indicates that an individual is singled out from a group, especially as opposed to a collective noun, as snowflake as opposed to snow.
- situational — manner of being situated; location or position with reference to environment: The situation of the house allowed for a beautiful view.
- ski touring — cross-country skiing.
- snuff stick — a twig, stick, or brush used to apply snuff on the teeth or gums.
- social unit — a person or a group of persons, as a family, functioning as a unit in society.
- solutionist — a problem-solver
- sound shift — a gradual alteration or series of alterations in the pronunciation of a set of sounds, esp of vowels
- southernism — a pronunciation, expression, or behavioral trait characteristic of the U.S. South.
- southernize — to make or become southern
- southington — a town in central Connecticut.
- speculating — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
- spiculation — formation into spicules.
- spitzenburg — any of several red or yellow varieties of apple that ripen in the autumn.
- sporulation — to produce spores.
- squassation — a form of strappado in which the victim, with arms bound behind and feet heavily weighted, was jerked up and down at the end of a rope passed under the arms.
- squattiness — the condition or quality of being squat
- squint-eyed — affected with or characterized by strabismus.
- squintingly — in a way that makes one squint
- st. quentin — a city in N France, on the Somme: retaken from the Germans 1918.
- staminodium — a sterile or abortive stamen.
- standing up — to cease to live; undergo the complete and permanent cessation of all vital functions; become dead.
- stentorious — stentorian.
- stickup man — a man who commits a stickup.
- stimulating — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- stimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- stipulating — to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of agreement (often followed by for).
- stipulation — a condition, demand, or promise in an agreement or contract.
- stone fruit — a fruit with a stone or hard endocarp, as a peach or plum; drupe.
- stramineous — of or resembling straw.
- strenuosity — characterized by vigorous exertion, as action, efforts, life, etc.: a strenuous afternoon of hunting.
- strike fund — an amount of money reserved by a union to make payments to striking works should a strike occur
- strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
- strong suit — Bridge. a long suit that contains high cards.
- stud muffin — a sexually attractive young man
- studentship — the state or condition of being a student.