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11-letter words containing r, e, s, u

  • spice route — an ancient trade route followed by merchants, importers and exporters trading in exotic spices such as cloves and cinnamon
  • spinel ruby — ruby spinel.
  • spiniferous — (esp of plants) bearing spines or thorns
  • spiriferous — having a spire or spiral parts.
  • spirituelle — having a refined and lively mind or wit; spirituel
  • spitzenburg — any of several red or yellow varieties of apple that ripen in the autumn.
  • splendorous — brilliant or gorgeous appearance, coloring, etc.; magnificence: the splendor of the palace.
  • spore fruit — a spore-bearing structure, as an ascoscarp; sporocarp.
  • sporiferous — bearing spores.
  • sporogenous — of or relating to spores or spore production.
  • sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation
  • spot survey — a survey taken immediately and at random
  • sprezzatura — effortlessness or ease, esp. in art or literature; careless grace; nonchalance
  • springhouse — a small storehouse built over a spring or part of a brook, for keeping such foods as meat and dairy products cool and fresh.
  • spruce beer — a fermented beverage made with spruce leaves and twigs, or an extract from them.
  • spruce pine — a tall coniferous tree, Pinus glabra, of the southeastern U.S., having smooth, gray bark and needles in bundles of two.
  • 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.
  • squirreling — any of numerous arboreal, bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Sciurus, of the family Sciuridae.
  • 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
  • stagestruck — obsessed with the desire to become an actor or actress.
  • staggerbush — an ericaceous deciduous shrub, Lyonia mariana, of E North America, having white or pinkish flowers: it is poisonous to livestock
  • stake truck — a truck or trailer with a stake body, as for hauling farm animals or feed bags.
  • stan laurel — Stan (Arthur Stanley Jefferson) 1890–1965, U.S. motion-picture actor and comedian, born in England.
  • status zero — the condition of young people who are out of school but not in further education or training, permanently or regularly out of work, and dropping out of the mainstream of society
  • stauroscope — an optical instrument for studying the crystal structure of minerals under polarized light
  • steamer rug — a coarse, heavy lap robe used by ship passengers sitting in deck chairs.
  • stegosaurus — any of a suborder (Stegosauria) of large ornithischian dinosaurs of the Upper Jurassic having a small head and heavy bony plates with sharp spikes down the backbone
  • stentorious — stentorian.
  • sternutator — a chemical agent causing nose irritation, coughing, etc.
  • stock-route — a public trail having right of way across private properties and over which cattle and sheep may be herded to grazing grounds or to market.
  • stone fruit — a fruit with a stone or hard endocarp, as a peach or plum; drupe.
  • stonecutter — a person who cuts or carves stone.
  • stoneground — (of wheat or other grain) ground between millstones, especially those made of burstone, so as to retain the whole of the grain and preserve nutritional content.
  • storm house — a storm cellar.
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