11-letter words containing n, o, u, r, i, s
- 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.
- seriousness — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
- serpiginous — (formerly) a creeping or spreading skin disease, as ringworm.
- serrulation — serrulate condition or form.
- shower unit — fitted shower
- shroud-line — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
- ski touring — cross-country skiing.
- skin colour — the colour of a person's skin, ie Black, White, etc
- smouldering — burning slowly without flame, usually emitting smoke
- snowsurfing — the use of a board without bindings to travel over snow
- somniferous — bringing or inducing sleep, as drugs or influences.
- soul-baring — confessing intimate thoughts
- sound mixer — sb who records film sound
- southernism — a pronunciation, expression, or behavioral trait characteristic of the U.S. South.
- southernize — to make or become southern
- spiniferous — (esp of plants) bearing spines or thorns
- 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.
- stentorious — stentorian.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- subrational — less than or almost rational.
- subrogation — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
- subtraction — an act or instance of subtracting.
- sulfuration — to combine, treat, or impregnate with sulfur, the fumes of burning sulfur, etc.
- sun-worship — the act of worshipping the sun as a deity
- supernation — a large body of people, associated with a particular territory, that is sufficiently conscious of its unity to seek or to possess a government peculiarly its own: The president spoke to the nation about the new tax.
- supersonics — the branch of science that deals with supersonic phenomena.
- supervision — the act or function of supervising; superintendence.
- suppression — the act of suppressing.
- suppuration — the process of suppurating.
- suraddition — an additional title
- surgeonfish — any tropical, coral-reef fish of the family Acanthuridae, with one or more sharp spines near the base of the tail fin.
- surgeonship — the position or responsibility of a surgeon
- surmounting — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
- surrogation — a person appointed to act for another; deputy.
- surrounding — something that surrounds, as the area, border, etc., around an object or central space: a tile surround for the shower stall.