11-letter words containing n, u, t, d
- standing up — to cease to live; undergo the complete and permanent cessation of all vital functions; become dead.
- stoneground — (of wheat or other grain) ground between millstones, especially those made of burstone, so as to retain the whole of the grain and preserve nutritional content.
- 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.
- stud muffin — a sexually attractive young man
- student's t — a statistic often used to test the hypothesis that a random sample of normally distributed observations has a given mean, μ; given by t = (̄x–μ) √n/s where ̄x is the mean of the sample, s is its standard deviation, and n is the size of the sample
- studentship — the state or condition of being a student.
- study up on — to make a careful study of
- subadjacent — lying near, close, or contiguous; adjoining; neighboring: a motel adjacent to the highway.
- subaudition — an act or instance of understanding or mentally supplying something not expressed.
- subdominant — Music. the fourth tone of a diatonic scale, next below the dominant.
- subindicate — to indirectly indicate or hint
- subindustry — a subdivision of an industry
- subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- substandard — below standard or less than adequate: substandard housing conditions.
- sudetenland — a mountainous region in the N Czech Republic, including the Sudeten and the Erzgebirge: annexed by Germany 1938; returned to Czechoslovakia 1945.
- sunday best — Sunday clothes.
- superdainty — very dainty
- superintend — to oversee and direct (work, processes, etc.).
- suraddition — an additional title
- surtarbrand — deposits of brown coal embedded in Iceland lava
- syndactylus — a person having united or webbed fingers or toes.
- talk around — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- tediousness — marked by monotony or tedium; long and tiresome: tedious tasks; a tedious journey.
- tendentious — having or showing a definite tendency, bias, or purpose: a tendentious novel.
- testudinate — formed like the carapace of a tortoise; arched; vaulted.
- tetrandrous — having four stamens.
- the needful — money or funds
- the wounded — persons wounded, esp. in warfare
- think aloud — If you think aloud, you express your thoughts as they occur to you, rather than thinking first and then speaking.
- thohoyandou — a self-governing Bantu territory of South Africa in the NE part: granted independence in 1979 by South Africa, but not recognized by any other country as an independent state. 2510 sq. mi. (6500 sq. km). Capital: Thohoyandou.
- thumb index — tabs on edge of a book's pages
- thumb-index — to provide (a book) with a thumb index.
- thumbs down — the short, thick, inner digit of the human hand, next to the forefinger.
- thumbs-down — an act or instance of dissent, disapproval, etc.
- thunder bay — a port in W Ontario, in S Canada, on Lake Superior: created in 1970 by the merger of twin cities (Fort William and Port Arthur) and two adjoining townships.
- thunder egg — a globular concretion of opal, agate, or chalcedony weathered out of tuff or basalt.
- thunder mug — a chamber pot.
- thunderbird — (in the mythology of some North American Indians) a huge, eaglelike bird capable of producing thunder, lightning, and rain.
- thunderbolt — a flash of lightning with the accompanying thunder.
- thunderclap — a crash of thunder.
- thunderhead — incus (def 2).
- thunderless — without thunder
- thunderpeal — a crash of thunder; thunderclap.
- tip and run — a form of cricket in which the batsman must run if his bat touches the ball
- to run wild — If something or someone, especially a child, runs wild, they behave in a natural, free, or uncontrolled way.
- tollund man — the perfectly preserved remains of an Iron Age man, hanged and thrown into a bog at Tollund, in Jutland, Denmark: discovered in 1950.
- tongue-tied — unable to speak, as from shyness, embarrassment, or surprise.
- torpedinous — of, relating to, or resembling a torpedo
- trade union — a labor union of craftspeople or workers in related crafts, as distinguished from general workers or a union including all workers in an industry.