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11-letter words containing o, n, d, r

  • san leandro — a city in W California.
  • sand dollar — any of various flat, disklike sea urchins, as Mellita testudinata or Echinarachnius parma, that live on sandy bottoms off the coasts of the U.S.
  • sand grouse — any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young.
  • sand hopper — beach flea.
  • sand-groper — a native of the arid region of Western Australia.
  • santo andre — a city in E Brazil, near São Paulo.
  • sarcodinian — belonging or pertaining to the protist phylum Sarcodina, comprising protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopodia.
  • sardonicism — characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering: a sardonic grin.
  • sauropsidan — relating to the Sauropsida or animals belonging to the Sauriodea group in Huxley's classification
  • schollander — Donald ("Don") born 1946, U.S. swimmer.
  • 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.
  • schrodinger — Erwin [er-vin] /ˈɛr vɪn/ (Show IPA), 1887–1961, German physicist: Nobel prize 1933.
  • scolopendra — a member of a genus of centipedes belonging to the Scolopendridae family
  • scorpaenoid — resembling or related to the family Scorpaenidae.
  • scoundrelly — having the character of a scoundrel; unscrupulous; villainous.
  • screen door — A screen door is a door made of fine netting which is on the outside of the main door of a house. It is used to keep insects out when the main door is open.
  • scrub round — to waive; avoid or ignore
  • second-rate — of lesser or minor quality, importance, or the like: a second-rate poet.
  • second-tier — not in the first rank
  • secondarily — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
  • seditionary — of or relating to sedition; seditious.
  • send around — to put into circulation
  • sensurround — a sound reproduction system used esp in cinemas, in which low-frequency output causes bodily sensations in the audience, resulting in a feeling of involvement in the film
  • servanthood — the condition of being a servant
  • shade-grown — grown in the shade, especially in artificial shade, as under a cloth.
  • sharp-nosed — having a thin, pointed nose.
  • shootaround — an informal match or practice session
  • shop around — compare prices
  • show around — guide round a new place
  • shroud-line — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
  • sideropenia — a lack of iron in the body
  • simmer down — to cook or cook in a liquid at or just below the boiling point.
  • slant board — a tiltable board that allows a person to lie with the feet higher than the head while doing exercises.
  • slop around — to spill or splash (liquid).
  • smouldering — burning slowly without flame, usually emitting smoke
  • sniffer dog — a dog trained to find illegal drugs or explosives by smell.
  • snow bridge — a mass of snow bridging a crevasse, sometimes affording a risky way across it
  • soft drinks — A soft drink is a cold, nonalcoholic drink such as lemonade or fruit juice, or a carbonated drink.
  • soft ground — an etching ground usually mixed with tallow. Compare hard ground.
  • soil binder — a plant that prevents or inhibits erosion by providing a ground cover and forming a dense network of roots that hold the soil.
  • soldier ant — a type of ant that has a disproportionately large head
  • solidarnosc — a Polish organization of independent trade unions founded in 1980: outlawed by the government of Poland in 1982.
  • sonderclass — a special class of small racing yachts, restricted as to size, sail area, cost, etc.
  • sound mixer — sb who records film sound
  • sound truck — a truck carrying a loudspeaker from which speeches, music, etc., are broadcast, as for advertising, campaigning, or the like.
  • southlander — a person from the south
  • sperm donor — a man who supplies sperm to be used in an artificial fertilization process
  • spin doctor — Slang. a press agent skilled at spin control.
  • spinal cord — the cord of nerve tissue extending through the spinal canal of the spinal column.
  • spinsterdom — the state of being a spinster
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