11-letter words containing o, r, i, n, d, s
- piss around — If you say that someone pisses around or pisses about, you mean they waste a lot of time doing unimportant things.
- polyandrist — a woman who practices or favors polyandry.
- ponderosity — of great weight; heavy; massive.
- preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
- prison yard — a piece of enclosed ground attached to a prison, where prisoners may take exercise at certain times
- proceedings — a particular action or course or manner of action.
- productions — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
- providences — a seaport in and the capital of Rhode Island, in the NE part, at the head of Narragansett Bay.
- provisioned — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- quadrasonic — of, noting, or pertaining to the recording and reproduction of sound over four separate transmission or direct reproduction channels instead of the customary two of the stereo system: a quadraphonic recording.
- radiovision — television.
- radnorshire — a historic county in Powys, in E Wales.
- rain shadow — a region in the lee of mountains that receives less rainfall than the region windward of the mountains.
- readmission — the act of allowing to enter; entrance granted by permission, by provision or existence of pecuniary means, or by the removal of obstacles: the admission of aliens into a country.
- reconsigned — to hand over or deliver formally or officially; commit (often followed by to).
- rediffusion — act of diffusing; state of being diffused.
- redigestion — the act or process of redigesting
- restationed — a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
- rhinestoned — adorned with rhinestones
- robbinsdale — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
- rock island — a port in NW Illinois, on the Mississippi: government arsenal.
- rose window — a circular window decorated with tracery symmetrical about the center.
- rose-tinted — excessively optimistic
- ross island — an island in the W Ross Sea, off the coast of Victoria Land: part of the Ross Dependency; location of Mt. Erebus.
- salvadorian — El Salvador.
- 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
- 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.
- scorpaenoid — resembling or related to the family Scorpaenidae.
- second-tier — not in the first rank
- secondarily — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
- seditionary — of or relating to sedition; seditious.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- sound mixer — sb who records film sound
- 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
- springboard — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
- stenocardia — angina pectoris, a contraction of the heart or its vessels due to a lack of oxygen, causing severe chest pain