11-letter words containing r, i, g, o, s
- redigestion — the act or process of redigesting
- regionalism — Government. the principle or system of dividing a city, state, etc., into separate administrative regions.
- religionism — excessive or exaggerated religious zeal.
- religionist — excessive or exaggerated religious zeal.
- religiosity — the quality of being religious; piety; devoutness.
- religiously — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
- resign-from — to give up an office or position, often formally (often followed by from): to resign from the presidency.
- resignation — the act of resigning.
- 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.
- rising trot — a horse's trot in which the rider rises from the saddle every second beat
- rough music — (formerly) a loud cacophony created with tin pans, drums, etc, esp as a protest or demonstration of indignation outside someone's house
- saprolegnia — a variety of fungus
- 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.
- schrodinger — Erwin [er-vin] /ˈɛr vɪn/ (Show IPA), 1887–1961, German physicist: Nobel prize 1933.
- scorchingly — in a scorching manner
- segregation — the act or practice of segregating; a setting apart or separation of people or things from others or from the main body or group: gender segregation in some fundamentalist religions.
- seigniorage — something claimed by a sovereign or superior as a prerogative.
- seigniorial — of or relating to a seignior.
- seismograph — any of various instruments for measuring and recording the vibrations of earthquakes.
- sermonizing — the act of talking as if delivering a sermon
- serological — the science dealing with the immunological properties and actions of serum.
- serpiginous — (formerly) a creeping or spreading skin disease, as ringworm.
- service dog — a dog trained to assist a person with a disability that is not related to vision or hearing.
- shergottite — a type of igneous rock or meteorite thought to originate on Mars
- sherrington — Sir Charles Scott, 1861–1952, English physiologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1932.
- shoe-string — a shoelace.
- short sight — myopia
- shortcoming — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
- shortweight — to give less than the weight charged for: The firm is accused of shortweighting grain.
- showrooming — the practice of looking at an item of merchandise in a shop, often using a smartphone app to compare its price elsewhere, before buying it from an online distributor
- sialography — radiography of salivary glands once they have been injected with a contrast medium
- sightworthy — worth seeing
- sign on for — If you sign on for something, you officially agree to work for an organization or do a course of study by signing a contract or form.
- signatories — having signed, or joined in signing, a document: the signatory powers to a treaty.
- silver goal — (in certain competitions) a goal scored in a full half of extra time that is played if a match is drawn. This goal counts as the winner if it is the only goal scored in the full half or full period of extra time
- singaporean — an island on the Strait of Singapore, off the S tip of the Malay Peninsula.
- single room — hotel room for one person
- sit through — endure the whole of
- ski touring — cross-country skiing.
- slot racing — the activity of racing slot cars.
- smoking car — smoker (def 2a).
- smouldering — burning slowly without flame, usually emitting smoke
- sniffer dog — a dog trained to find illegal drugs or explosives by smell.
- snorkelling — the activity of swimming with a snorkel
- snow bridge — a mass of snow bridging a crevasse, sometimes affording a risky way across it
- snow grains — precipitation consisting of white, opaque ice particles usually less than one millimeter in diameter.
- snowsurfing — the use of a board without bindings to travel over snow
- sociography — the branch of sociology that uses statistical data to describe social phenomena.