11-letter words containing r, a, u, s
- singularity — the state, fact, or quality of being singular.
- singularize — to make singular.
- slaughtered — the killing or butchering of cattle, sheep, etc., especially for food.
- slop around — to spill or splash (liquid).
- sluggardise — indolence or laziness
- sluggardize — to make lazy or sluggish
- slumberland — an imaginary land described to children as the place they enter during sleep.
- small hours — pre-dawn
- snap course — an academic course that can be passed with a minimum of effort.
- sneezeguard — a plastic or glass shield overhanging a salad bar, buffet, or the like to protect the food from contamination.
- soho square — a formerly fashionable residential district of London, England.
- solar house — a house designed to absorb and store solar heat.
- soluble rna — a small RNA molecule, consisting of a strand of nucleotides folded into a clover-leaf shape, that picks up an unattached amino acid within the cell cytoplasm and conveys it to the ribosome for protein synthesis. Abbreviation: tRNA.
- somnambular — relating to sleep-walking
- soul-baring — confessing intimate thoughts
- sour grapes — bitterness about sth unattainable
- sour orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
- south korea — a country in E Asia: formed 1948 after the division of the former country of Korea at 38° N. 36,600 sq. mi. (94,795 sq. km). Capital: Seoul. Compare Korea.
- southeaster — a wind or storm from the southeast.
- southlander — a person from the south
- southwardly — toward the south
- space group — a set of symmetry elements that brings a periodic arrangement of points on a Bravais space lattice to its original position.
- spartanburg — a city in NW South Carolina.
- spectacular — of or like a spectacle; marked by or given to an impressive, large-scale display.
- specularity — the state of resembling a mirror
- speculatory — a place suitable for observation
- sphaeridium — a round body found on sea urchins
- spiritually — of, relating to, or consisting of spirit; incorporeal.
- spiritualty — Often, spiritualties. ecclesiastical property or revenue.
- sporulation — to produce spores.
- sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation
- sprezzatura — effortlessness or ease, esp. in art or literature; careless grace; nonchalance
- square away — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
- square deal — the stated policy of President Theodore Roosevelt, originally promising fairness in all dealings with labor and management and later extended to include other groups.
- square foot — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one foot on each side; 0.0929 square meters. 2 , sq. ft. Abbreviation: ft.
- square inch — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one inch on each side; 6.452 square centimeters. 2 , sq. in. Abbreviation: in.
- square knot — a common knot in which the ends come out alongside of the standing parts.
- square meal — a nourishing or filling meal: You'll feel better after you've had a square meal.
- square mile — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one mile on each side; 2.59 square kilometers. 2 , sq. mi. Abbreviation: mi.
- square root — a quantity of which a given quantity is the square: The quantities +6 and −6 are square roots of 36 since (+6)×(+6)=36 and (−6)×(−6)=36.
- square sail — a sail set beneath a horizontal yard, the normal position of which, when not trimmed to the wind, is directly athwartships.
- square wave — a graph, function, vibration, etc., that is periodic and equal to one constant on one half of the period and a different constant, which may be zero, on the other half.
- square with — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
- square yard — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one yard on each side; 0.8361 square meters. 2 , sq. yd. Abbreviation: yd.
- square-toed — with the toes squared off
- square-toes — an old-fashioned or strait-laced person.
- squarsonage — the residence of a squarson
- squirearchy — the collective body of squires or landed gentry of a country.
- st. laurent — Louis Stephen [lwee ste-fen] /lwi stɛˈfɛn/ (Show IPA), 1882–1973, prime minister of Canada 1948–57.
- staff nurse — nurse who works on a ward