11-letter words containing o, r, s, i, u
- ricinus oil — castor oil.
- righteously — characterized by uprightness or morality: a righteous observance of the law.
- ring-porous — having annual rings marked by a conspicuous band of large pores in wood formed in spring.
- roots music — reggae, esp when regarded as authentic and uncommercialized
- rosicrucian — (in the 17th and 18th centuries) a person who belonged to a secret society laying claim to various forms of occult knowledge and power and professing esoteric principles of religion.
- rough music — (formerly) a loud cacophony created with tin pans, drums, etc, esp as a protest or demonstration of indignation outside someone's house
- rousseauism — the doctrines or principles of Jean Jacques Rousseau or his adherents.
- rousseauist — the doctrines or principles of Jean Jacques Rousseau or his adherents.
- routineness — a customary or regular course of procedure.
- rumbustious — rambunctious.
- ruminations — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
- russophobia — an intense and often irrational hatred for Russia, or esp the former Soviet Union, its political system, etc
- rustication — Also called rustic work. Architecture. any of various forms of ashlar so dressed and tooled that the visible faces are raised above or otherwise contrasted with the horizontal and usually the vertical joints.
- saburration — the use of heated sand in healing
- sacculiform — (of plant parts, etc) shaped like a small sac
- sailor suit — naval uniform
- sauropsidan — relating to the Sauropsida or animals belonging to the Sauriodea group in Huxley's classification
- scapigerous — having a scape or leafless stalk
- 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.
- scribacious — having the tendency to write a lot or too much
- scriptorium — a room, as in a monastery, library, or other institution, where manuscripts are stored, read, or copied.
- scrobicular — of or relating to the smooth areas on a sea urchin surrounding its nodules
- scrumptious — very pleasing, especially to the senses; delectable; splendid: a scrumptious casserole; a scrumptious satin gown.
- semipopular — relatively popular; quite popular
- semiserious — having some seriousness; partly serious.
- septiferous — in possession of a septum or partition
- seriousness — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
- serpiginous — (formerly) a creeping or spreading skin disease, as ringworm.
- serrulation — serrulate condition or form.
- sex tourism — a vacation to a destination that has no restrictions on sexual services or activities, as prostitution.
- shower unit — fitted shower
- shroud-laid — noting a fiber rope of four strands laid right-handed with or without a heart.
- shroud-line — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
- sit through — endure the whole of
- ski touring — cross-country skiing.
- skin colour — the colour of a person's skin, ie Black, White, etc
- smouldering — burning slowly without flame, usually emitting smoke
- snowsurfing — the use of a board without bindings to travel over snow
- sodium-free — (of food) containing less than 5 mg of sodium per serving
- somniferous — bringing or inducing sleep, as drugs or influences.
- soul sister — a black female, especially a fellow black female.
- soul-baring — confessing intimate thoughts
- sound mixer — sb who records film sound
- soured milk — milk that has been deliberately soured by fermentation or by adding acids such as lemon juice or vinegar, to be used in cooking
- south river — a borough in central New Jersey.
- southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
- southernism — a pronunciation, expression, or behavioral trait characteristic of the U.S. South.
- southernize — to make or become southern
- spice route — an ancient trade route followed by merchants, importers and exporters trading in exotic spices such as cloves and cinnamon
- spiniferous — (esp of plants) bearing spines or thorns