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11-letter words containing n, u, i, s, a, c

  • resuscitant — a person or thing that resuscitates
  • 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.
  • rusticating — to go to the country.
  • 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.
  • sacculation — formed into or having a saccule, sac, or saclike dilation.
  • saint lucia — one of the Windward Islands, in the E West Indies.
  • saint-cloud — a city in central Minnesota, on the Mississippi.
  • salon music — music of a simple, agreeable, frequently sentimental character, played usually by a small orchestra.
  • sanctuarize — to give sanctuary to
  • saurischian — any herbivorous or carnivorous dinosaur of the order Saurischia, having a three-pronged pelvis resembling that of a crocodile. Compare ornithischian.
  • schizanthus — any of several plants of the genus Schizanthus, native to Chile, having numerous variously colored flowers resembling small orchids.
  • snake juice — any strong alcoholic drink, esp when home-made
  • 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.
  • speculating — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
  • speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
  • spiculation — formation into spicules.
  • square inch — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one inch on each side; 6.452 square centimeters. 2 , sq. in. Abbreviation: in.
  • stickup man — a man who commits a stickup.
  • sub-captain — a person who is at the head of or in authority over others; chief; leader.
  • suballiance — a suborder or subdivision of an alliance
  • subcardinal — (of veins) next to the cardinal veins
  • subchairman — a subordinate or substitute chairman.
  • subclinical — pertaining to an early stage of a disease; having no noticeable clinical symptoms.
  • subdiaconal — of or relating to a subdeacon.
  • 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.
  • subindicate — to indirectly indicate or hint
  • subordinacy — a subordinate person or thing.
  • subtraction — an act or instance of subtracting.
  • suffocation — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
  • súgán chair — a chair with a seat made from woven súgáns
  • surfcasting — the act, technique, or sport of fishing by casting from the shoreline into the sea, usually using heavy-duty tackle.
  • suscitation — the act of suscitating
  • suspicional — of or relating to suspicion, especially morbid or insane suspicions.
  • tenaciously — holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold (often followed by of): a tenacious grip on my arm; tenacious of old habits.
  • tonal music — music that uses the diatonic system
  • transuranic — any element having an atomic number greater than 92, the atomic number of uranium. All such elements are radioactive and can be synthesized by bombarding a heavy element with a light particle or element. See also transactinide element.
  • ultrasonics — the branch of science that deals with the effects of sound waves above human perception.
  • unaesthetic — offensive to the aesthetic sense; lacking in beauty or sensory appeal; unpleasant, as an object, design, arrangement, etc.: an unaesthetic combination of colors.
  • unapostolic — not apostolic; not related to or characteristic of the early Christian apostles or their subsequent apostles
  • uncanniness — having or seeming to have a supernatural or inexplicable basis; beyond the ordinary or normal; extraordinary: uncanny accuracy; an uncanny knack of foreseeing trouble.
  • unceasingly — not ceasing or stopping; continuous: an unceasing flow of criticism.
  • unchastised — not chastised or reprimanded
  • unchristian — not conforming to Christian teaching or principles: unchristian selfishness.
  • unclarities — clearness or lucidity as to perception or understanding; freedom from indistinctness or ambiguity.
  • unclassical — not classical; contrary to classical precepts.
  • undisplaced — lacking a home, country, etc.
  • union scale — scale3 (def 6).
  • unmalicious — full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
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