11-letter words containing r, e, s, u
- shutter-bug — an amateur photographer, especially one who is greatly devoted to the hobby.
- shutterless — lacking a shutter
- singularize — to make singular.
- skulduddery — (of people) adultery
- skulduggery — dishonorable proceedings; mean dishonesty or trickery: bribery, graft, and other such skulduggery.
- skunk river — a river in central Iowa, flowing SE to the Mississippi River. 264 miles (425 km) long.
- slaughtered — the killing or butchering of cattle, sheep, etc., especially for food.
- sleep rough — to spend the night in the open; be without a home or without shelter
- slough over — to gloss over; minimize
- sluggardise — indolence or laziness
- sluggardize — to make lazy or sluggish
- slumberland — an imaginary land described to children as the place they enter during sleep.
- slumberless — to sleep, especially lightly; doze; drowse.
- slumbersome — tired; sleepy
- slumdweller — a person who lives in a slum.
- smokejumper — a firefighter who parachutes to forest fires inaccessible to ground crews.
- smouldering — burning slowly without flame, usually emitting smoke
- 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.
- sodium-free — (of food) containing less than 5 mg of sodium per serving
- soho square — a formerly fashionable residential district of London, England.
- sojournment — the state of sojourning
- solar house — a house designed to absorb and store solar heat.
- sole-source — designating a company contracted, without competition, to be the sole supplier of a product or service, as a firm having an exclusive contract for certain military technology.
- 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.
- somniferous — bringing or inducing sleep, as drugs or influences.
- soul sister — a black female, especially a fellow black female.
- sound mixer — sb who records film sound
- soup course — a part of a meal when soup is served
- soup tureen — a large bowl with a lid, from which soup is served at the table
- sour cherry — a cherry, Prunus cerasus, characterized by gray bark and the spreading habit of its branches.
- sour grapes — bitterness about sth unattainable
- sour orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
- source book — an original writing, as a document, record, or diary, that supplies an authoritative basis for future writing, study, evaluation, etc.
- source code — program instructions that must be translated by a compiler, interpreter, or assembler into object code before execution.
- 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 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.
- south river — a borough in central New Jersey.
- southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
- southeaster — a wind or storm from the southeast.
- southernism — a pronunciation, expression, or behavioral trait characteristic of the U.S. South.
- southernize — to make or become southern
- southlander — a person from the south
- southwester — a wind, gale, or storm from the southwest.
- space group — a set of symmetry elements that brings a periodic arrangement of points on a Bravais space lattice to its original position.
- 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
- sperm count — the number of spermatozoa in an amount of semen, used as an indication of a man's fertility
- sphaeridium — a round body found on sea urchins