11-letter words containing n, u, r, i, s, t
- strenuosity — characterized by vigorous exertion, as action, efforts, life, etc.: a strenuous afternoon of hunting.
- strike fund — an amount of money reserved by a union to make payments to striking works should a strike occur
- strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
- strong suit — Bridge. a long suit that contains high cards.
- stunt flier — someone who performs stunts in an aeroplane, such as special turns, etc, in the air
- 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.
- subindustry — a subdivision of an industry
- subinterval — an interval that is a subset of a given interval.
- subminister — to supply
- 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.
- subservient — serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.
- subterminal — situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
- subtraction — an act or instance of subtracting.
- suburbanite — a person who lives in a suburb of a city or large town.
- sulfuration — to combine, treat, or impregnate with sulfur, the fumes of burning sulfur, etc.
- sun bittern — a graceful South American wading bird, Eurypyga helias, related to the cranes and rails, having variegated plumage.
- superdainty — very dainty
- superinfect — to infect further with an additional infection
- superintend — to oversee and direct (work, processes, etc.).
- 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.
- superstring — any supersymmetric string theory in which each type of elementary particle is treated as a vibration of a single fundamental string (superstring) at a particular frequency.
- suppurating — to produce or discharge pus, as a wound; maturate.
- suppuration — the process of suppurating.
- suraddition — an additional title
- surfcasting — the act, technique, or sport of fishing by casting from the shoreline into the sea, usually using heavy-duty tackle.
- surgicenter — a surgical facility, not based in a hospital, where minor surgery is performed on an outpatient basis.
- 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.
- surveillant — exercising surveillance.
- suspiration — a long, deep sigh.
- susurration — a soft murmur; whisper.
- tanniferous — containing much tannin; yielding tannin.
- tea infuser — mesh ball for straining tea leaves
- tent circus — a circus performed in tents rather than in an arena.
- terrigenous — produced by the earth.
- torpedinous — of, relating to, or resembling a torpedo
- transfigure — to change in outward form or appearance; transform.
- transfusion — the act or process of transfusing.
- 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.
- turing plus — Systems programming language, a concurrent descendant of Turing. Available from Holt Software Assocs, Toronto <[email protected]>.
- turing test — (artificial intelligence) A criterion proposed by Alan Turing in 1950 for deciding whether a computer is intelligent. Turing called it "the Imitation Game" and offered it as a replacement for the question, "Can machines think?" A human holds a written conversation on any topic with an unseen correspondent (nowadays it might be by electronic mail or chat). If the human believes he is talking to another human when he is really talking to a computer then the computer has passed the Turing test and is deemed to be intelligent. Turing predicted that within 50 years (by the year 2000) technological progress would produce computing machines with a capacity of 10**9 bits, and that with such machinery, a computer program would be able to fool the average questioner for 5 minutes about 70% of the time. The Loebner Prize is a competition to find a computer program which can pass an unrestricted Turing test. See also AI-complete.
- turkish van — a breed of cat with soft white semi-long hair and coloured markings on the head and tail
- turn signal — A car's turn signals are the flashing lights that tell you it is going to turn left or right.
- turntablist — a DJ who is skilled in using turntables to obtain distinctive effects from records
- ultrasonics — the branch of science that deals with the effects of sound waves above human perception.
- unaspirated — Phonetics. to articulate (a speech sound, especially a stop) so as to produce an audible puff of breath, as with the first t of total, the second t being unaspirated. to articulate (the beginning of a word or syllable) with an h -sound, as in which, pronounced (hwich), or hitch as opposed to witch or itch.