11-letter words containing s, c, i, u, r
- 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
- rumbustical — rumbustious
- rusticating — to go to the country.
- 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.
- sacculiform — (of plant parts, etc) shaped like a small sac
- sanctuarize — to give sanctuary to
- saurischian — any herbivorous or carnivorous dinosaur of the order Saurischia, having a three-pronged pelvis resembling that of a crocodile. Compare ornithischian.
- saussuritic — relating to, resembling, or having saussurite
- scapigerous — having a scape or leafless stalk
- scar tissue — connective tissue that has contracted and become dense and fibrous.
- 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.
- schweinfurt — a city in N Bavaria, in S central Germany, on the Main River.
- scribacious — having the tendency to write a lot or too much
- scrip issue — an issue of free shares distributed pro rata to existing stockholders instead of a dividend.
- scriptorium — a room, as in a monastery, library, or other institution, where manuscripts are stored, read, or copied.
- scripturism — the state of being versed in Scripture
- scripturist — a person who obeys and is versed in the Scriptures
- scrobicular — of or relating to the smooth areas on a sea urchin surrounding its nodules
- scruffiness — the state of being unkempt or shabby
- scrumptious — very pleasing, especially to the senses; delectable; splendid: a scrumptious casserole; a scrumptious satin gown.
- scrutinised — to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
- scrutinized — to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
- scrutinizer — to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
- scuba diver — sb who dives underwater
- sculpturing — the act of sculpturing or carving
- secularized — to make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism.
- secure unit — A secure unit is a building or part of a building where dangerous prisoners or violent psychiatric patients are kept.
- sericterium — a silk-producing gland in a silkworm
- sericulture — the raising of silk worms for the production of raw silk.
- service bus — a public bus with a regular route
- sicknursing — the nursing of the sick
- skin colour — the colour of a person's skin, ie Black, White, etc
- specularity — the state of resembling a mirror
- spice route — an ancient trade route followed by merchants, importers and exporters trading in exotic spices such as cloves and cinnamon
- spruce pine — a tall coniferous tree, Pinus glabra, of the southeastern U.S., having smooth, gray bark and needles in bundles of two.
- 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.
- squirearchy — the collective body of squires or landed gentry of a country.
- stirrup cup — farewell drink, especially one offered to a rider already mounted for departure.
- sub-article — a written composition in prose, usually nonfiction, on a specific topic, forming an independent part of a book or other publication, as a newspaper or magazine.
- sub-chronic — constant; habitual; inveterate: a chronic liar.
- subacromial — the outward end of the spine of the scapula or shoulder blade.
- subcardinal — (of veins) next to the cardinal veins
- subchairman — a subordinate or substitute chairman.
- subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
- subcortical — situated beneath the cortex.
- subcritical — Physics. pertaining to a state, value, or quantity that is less than critical, especially to a mass of radioactive material.
- subcurative — of a dosage which is not strong enough to have a curing effect
- subdirector — an assistant or secondary director
- subdistrict — a division of a district.