11-letter words containing n, o, u, d
- social fund — (in Britain) a social security fund from which loans or payments may be made to people in cases of extreme need
- soft ground — an etching ground usually mixed with tallow. Compare hard ground.
- 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
- splendorous — brilliant or gorgeous appearance, coloring, etc.; magnificence: the splendor of the palace.
- spondulicks — money; cash.
- staminodium — a sterile or abortive stamen.
- stand up to — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
- 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.
- strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
- study up on — to make a careful study of
- subaudition — an act or instance of understanding or mentally supplying something not expressed.
- subchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
- subdeaconry — the position or office of a subdeacon
- subdecision — a decision secondary to a main decision
- subdiaconal — of or relating to a subdeacon.
- subdivision — the act or fact of subdividing.
- subdominant — Music. the fourth tone of a diatonic scale, next below the dominant.
- subordinacy — a subordinate person or thing.
- subordinary — any of several heraldic bearings of secondary importance to the ordinary, such as the lozenge, the orle, and the fret
- subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- sulfonamide — sulfa drug.
- sundry shop — (in Malaysia) a shop, similar to a delicatessen, that sells predominantly Chinese foodstuffs
- superabound — to abound beyond something else.
- supermodern — highly modern
- suraddition — an additional title
- surrenderor — the person who surrenders an estate
- surrounding — something that surrounds, as the area, border, etc., around an object or central space: a tile surround for the shower stall.
- talk around — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- tediousness — marked by monotony or tedium; long and tiresome: tedious tasks; a tedious journey.
- tendentious — having or showing a definite tendency, bias, or purpose: a tendentious novel.
- tetrandrous — having four stamens.
- the wounded — persons wounded, esp. in warfare
- think aloud — If you think aloud, you express your thoughts as they occur to you, rather than thinking first and then speaking.
- thohoyandou — a self-governing Bantu territory of South Africa in the NE part: granted independence in 1979 by South Africa, but not recognized by any other country as an independent state. 2510 sq. mi. (6500 sq. km). Capital: Thohoyandou.
- thumbs down — the short, thick, inner digit of the human hand, next to the forefinger.
- thumbs-down — an act or instance of dissent, disapproval, etc.
- thunderbolt — a flash of lightning with the accompanying thunder.
- to run wild — If something or someone, especially a child, runs wild, they behave in a natural, free, or uncontrolled way.
- tollund man — the perfectly preserved remains of an Iron Age man, hanged and thrown into a bog at Tollund, in Jutland, Denmark: discovered in 1950.