11-letter words containing n, o, s, d
- shop window — storefront display
- shop-window — a window used for display of merchandise.
- show around — guide round a new place
- show window — a display window in a store.
- shroud-line — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
- shunt-wound — noting a motor or a generator that has the field circuit connected in parallel with the armature winding.
- sideropenia — a lack of iron in the body
- sign-posted — a post bearing a sign that gives information or guidance.
- siliconized — (of a material) having silicone added.
- simmer down — to cook or cook in a liquid at or just below the boiling point.
- sindonology — the scientific study of the Shroud of Turin.
- single bond — a chemical linkage consisting of one covalent bond between two atoms of a molecule, represented in chemical formulas by one line or two vertical dots, as C–H or C:H.
- sipunculoid — a member of the group Sipunculoidea
- slant board — a tiltable board that allows a person to lie with the feet higher than the head while doing exercises.
- sleuthhound — a bloodhound.
- slop around — to spill or splash (liquid).
- smooth down — make flat and even
- smoothhound — a smooth dogfish, especially Mustelus mustelus, inhabiting waters along the coast of Europe.
- smouldering — burning slowly without flame, usually emitting smoke
- snapshotted — an informal photograph, especially one taken quickly by a handheld camera.
- sniffer dog — a dog trained to find illegal drugs or explosives by smell.
- snow bridge — a mass of snow bridging a crevasse, sometimes affording a risky way across it
- snow-capped — A snow-capped mountain is covered with snow at the top.
- snowblading — the activity or sport of skiing with short skis (snowblades) and no poles
- social fund — (in Britain) a social security fund from which loans or payments may be made to people in cases of extreme need
- soda siphon — fizzy water dispenser
- soft drinks — A soft drink is a cold, nonalcoholic drink such as lemonade or fruit juice, or a carbonated drink.
- soft ground — an etching ground usually mixed with tallow. Compare hard ground.
- soft-finned — having fins supported by articulated rays rather than by spines, as a malacopterygian.
- soil binder — a plant that prevents or inhibits erosion by providing a ground cover and forming a dense network of roots that hold the soil.
- soldier ant — a type of ant that has a disproportionately large head
- solid angle — an angle formed by three or more planes intersecting in a common point or formed at the vertex of a cone.
- solidarnosc — a Polish organization of independent trade unions founded in 1980: outlawed by the government of Poland in 1982.
- somatomedin — any of various liver hormones that enhance the activity of a variety of other hormones, as somatotropin.
- son of adam — a man: He had all the weaknesses to which a son of Adam is heir.
- sonderclass — a special class of small racing yachts, restricted as to size, sail area, cost, etc.
- sound block — a small block of wood for rapping with a gavel.
- sound check — an on-the-spot rehearsal by a band before a gig to enable the sound engineer to set up the mixer
- sound mixer — sb who records film sound
- sound shift — a gradual alteration or series of alterations in the pronunciation of a set of sounds, esp of vowels
- sound stage — a large, soundproof studio used for filming motion pictures.
- sound truck — a truck carrying a loudspeaker from which speeches, music, etc., are broadcast, as for advertising, campaigning, or the like.
- sound-alike — a person or thing that resembles another in sound
- south devon — a breed of large red cattle originally from South Devon
- south downs — a range of low hills, from Hampshire to East Sussex, in S England.
- south ogden — a town in N Utah.
- south sudan — a landlocked republic in NE Africa, in the Sahel region; formerly part of Sudan: became independent after a referendum in 2011, following a long civil war. Languages: English, Arabic. Religions: Christian, animist. Currency: South Sudanese Pound. Capital: Juba. Pop: 11 090 104 (2013 est). Area: 644 329 sq km (248 777 sq miles)
- southlander — a person from the south
- speed demon — a person who travels or works at high speed.
- speedcoding — (language) A pseudocode interpreter for mathematics on IBM 701 and IBM 650 written by John Backus in 1953.