11-letter words containing n, o, u, i, s
- sound-alike — a person or thing that resembles another in sound
- 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.
- speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
- spiculation — formation into spicules.
- spiniferous — (esp of plants) bearing spines or thorns
- spondulicks — money; cash.
- sporogonium — the sporangium of mosses and liverworts.
- sporulation — to produce spores.
- 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.
- 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.
- staminodium — a sterile or abortive stamen.
- stentorious — stentorian.
- stimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- 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.
- strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
- strong suit — Bridge. a long suit that contains high cards.
- sub-chronic — constant; habitual; inveterate: a chronic liar.
- subarration — an ancient way of marrying by giving a ring or gift
- subaudition — an act or instance of understanding or mentally supplying something not expressed.
- 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.
- subeconomic — pertaining to the production, distribution, and use of income, wealth, and commodities.
- subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
- subincision — the slitting of the underside of the penis to the urethra, performed as a puberty rite among some tribal peoples, especially in Australia.
- subitaneous — sudden
- subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
- subjunction — an act of subjoining.
- sublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- subluxation — a partial dislocation, as of a joint; sprain.
- submunition — a weapon forming part of a larger warhead and released from it at a target
- subnational — of, relating to, or maintained by a nation as an organized whole or independent political unit: national affairs.
- 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.
- subornation — to bribe or induce (someone) unlawfully or secretly to perform some misdeed or to commit a crime.
- subpanation — the belief that the body and blood of Christ are present in the bread and wine of Communion
- subpoenaing — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
- subrational — less than or almost rational.
- subrogation — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
- subsumption — an act of subsuming.
- subtraction — an act or instance of subtracting.
- suction cup — a cup-shaped object of rubber, glass, plastic, etc., which, by producing a partial vacuum, can be made to adhere to or draw something to a surface.