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11-letter words containing n, o, u, i, s

  • restitution — reparation made by giving an equivalent or compensation for loss, damage, or injury caused; indemnification.
  • rhizanthous — bearing flowers directly from the root.
  • ricinus oil — castor oil.
  • ring-porous — having annual rings marked by a conspicuous band of large pores in wood formed in spring.
  • rosicrucian — (in the 17th and 18th centuries) a person who belonged to a secret society laying claim to various forms of occult knowledge and power and professing esoteric principles of religion.
  • routineness — a customary or regular course of procedure.
  • ruminations — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
  • rustication — Also called rustic work. Architecture. any of various forms of ashlar so dressed and tooled that the visible faces are raised above or otherwise contrasted with the horizontal and usually the vertical joints.
  • saburration — the use of heated sand in healing
  • sacculation — formed into or having a saccule, sac, or saclike dilation.
  • saint louis — Saint, 1214?–70, king of France 1226–70.
  • saint-cloud — a city in central Minnesota, on the Mississippi.
  • saint-louis — a port in E Missouri, on the Mississippi.
  • salon music — music of a simple, agreeable, frequently sentimental character, played usually by a small orchestra.
  • salsuginous — full of salt or able to grow in salty soil
  • salting out — the addition of salt to a mixture to precipitate proteins, soaps, and other simple organic compounds.
  • salting-out — Salting-out is the effect when adding a salt to a solvent containing an organic solute reduces the solubility of that solute.
  • salutations — the act of saluting.
  • san joaquin — a river in California, flowing NW from the Sierra Nevada Mountains to the Sacramento River. 350 miles (560 km) long.
  • sanguineous — of, relating to, or containing blood.
  • sauropsidan — relating to the Sauropsida or animals belonging to the Sauriodea group in Huxley's classification
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • semiquinone — any of the class of free radicals formed as intermediates in the oxidation of a hydroquinone to a quinone.
  • sententious — abounding in pithy aphorisms or maxims: a sententious book.
  • seriousness — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
  • serpiginous — (formerly) a creeping or spreading skin disease, as ringworm.
  • serrulation — serrulate condition or form.
  • shine up to — to give forth or glow with light; shed or cast light.
  • shower unit — fitted shower
  • showjumping — horseriding event
  • shroud-line — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
  • simon magus — Simon (defs 5, 6).
  • sipunculoid — a member of the group Sipunculoidea
  • 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.
  • skin colour — the colour of a person's skin, ie Black, White, etc
  • slumgullion — a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
  • smoking gun — indisputable proof or evidence of a crime.
  • smouldering — burning slowly without flame, usually emitting smoke
  • snowsurfing — the use of a board without bindings to travel over snow
  • snuff movie — Slang. a pornographic film that shows an actual murder of one of the performers, as at the end of a sadistic act.
  • snuff-movie — Slang. a pornographic film that shows an actual murder of one of the performers, as at the end of a sadistic act.
  • social fund — (in Britain) a social security fund from which loans or payments may be made to people in cases of extreme need
  • social unit — a person or a group of persons, as a family, functioning as a unit in society.
  • solutionist — a problem-solver
  • somniferous — bringing or inducing sleep, as drugs or influences.
  • soul-baring — confessing intimate thoughts
  • 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
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