11-letter words containing n, u, l
- 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.
- samuel ting — Samuel C(hao) C(hung) [chou choo ng] /tʃaʊ tʃʊŋ/ (Show IPA), born 1936, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1976.
- sandculture — the hydroponic cultivation of plants in sand.
- sansculotte — (originally) a revolutionary of the poorer class
- santa claus — a benevolent figure of legend, associated with Saint Nicholas, supposed to bring gifts to children on Christmas Eve.
- santa paula — a city in SW California.
- saturnalian — (sometimes used with a plural verb) the festival of Saturn, celebrated in December in ancient Rome as a time of unrestrained merrymaking.
- school fund — the money provided by a government or raised by parents and teachers to finance the running of a school
- scoundrelly — having the character of a scoundrel; unscrupulous; villainous.
- sculpturing — the act of sculpturing or carving
- sdeignfully — disdainfully
- sealed unit — a hard disk that is permanently sealed to prevent damage to the read/write head
- seigneurial — a lord, especially a feudal lord.
- self-insure — to subject (one's property or interests) to self-insurance.
- self-ruling — of or relating to self-rule
- semi-annual — occurring, done, or published every half year or twice a year; semiyearly.
- semidiurnal — pertaining to, consisting of, or accomplished in half a day.
- seminatural — partly natural and partly cultivated
- serrulation — serrulate condition or form.
- sertularian — a type of hydroid that forms stiff, feathery colonies in which the cups holding the zooids are sessile.
- sesquiplane — a biplane having one wing with not more than half the surface area of the other wing.
- shroud-line — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
- shufflingly — in the manner of a shuffle
- sign manual — a personal signature, especially that of a sovereign or official on a public document.
- single-hung — (of a window) having two sashes, only one of which is movable.
- singularism — any philosophy that explains phenomena from a single principle
- singularist — someone who advocates singularism
- singularity — the state, fact, or quality of being singular.
- singularize — to make singular.
- singulative — a grammatical form or construction that expresses a singular entity or indicates that an individual is singled out from a group, especially as opposed to a collective noun, as snowflake as opposed to snow.
- sinupallial — (of lamellibranchs) having an impression of the sinus on the pallium
- 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.
- skin colour — the colour of a person's skin, ie Black, White, etc
- sleuthhound — a bloodhound.
- slop around — to spill or splash (liquid).
- slumberland — an imaginary land described to children as the place they enter during sleep.
- slumgullion — a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
- smouldering — burning slowly without flame, usually emitting smoke
- 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.
- soft launch — the launch of a website in stages, with regular updating
- solanaceous — belonging to the Solanaceae, the nightshade family of plants.
- soluble rna — a small RNA molecule, consisting of a strand of nucleotides folded into a clover-leaf shape, that picks up an unattached amino acid within the cell cytoplasm and conveys it to the ribosome for protein synthesis. Abbreviation: tRNA.
- solutionist — a problem-solver
- somnambular — relating to sleep-walking
- soul-baring — confessing intimate thoughts