11-letter words containing s, c, r, u, m
- culturalism — A belief system that emphasizes the role of culture.
- culturomics — the study of human culture and cultural trends over time by means of quantitative analysis of words and phrases in a very large corpus of digitized texts: Culturomics can pinpoint periods of accelerated language change.
- cummerbunds — Plural form of cummerbund.
- curmudgeons — Plural form of curmudgeon.
- curriculums — Plural form of curriculum.
- customaries — Plural form of customary.
- customarily — according to custom; usually
- damp course — A damp course is a layer of waterproof material which is put into the bottom of the outside wall of a building to prevent moisture from rising.
- deutschmark — the former standard monetary unit of Germany, divided into 100 pfennigs; replaced by the euro in 2002: until 1990 the standard monetary unit of West Germany
- diascordium — a herbal medicine, no longer in use, containing among other ingredients the herb scordium and opium
- disencumber — to free from a burden or other encumbrance; disburden.
- documenters — Plural form of documenter.
- dulcimerist — Someone who plays the dulcimer.
- dwarf sumac — a shrub or small tree, Rhus copallina, of the cashew family, native to the eastern U.S., having shiny, pinnate leaves, greenish flowers, and clusters of red, berrylike fruit.
- early music — music of the medieval, Renaissance, and early Baroque periods, especially revived and played on period instruments; European music after ancient music and before the classical music era, from the beginning of the Middle Ages to about 1750.
- eco-tourism — Eco-tourism is the business of providing holidays and related services which are not harmful to the environment of the area.
- ecoconsumer — A consumer who makes purchasing decisions partly or largely on the basis of ecological issues.
- emasculator — One who, or that which, emasculates.
- embouchures — Plural form of embouchure.
- emunctories — Plural form of emunctory.
- encrustment — an outer layer of crust
- eremacausis — A gradual oxidation from exposure to air and moisture, as in the decay of old trees or dead animals.
- escarmouche — a skirmish
- eurhythmics — Alternative spelling of eurythmics.
- helichrysum — any of the numerous composite plants of the genus Helichrysum, having alternate leaves and solitary or clustered flower heads, including the strawflower.
- hercogamous — (of flowers) incapable of self-fertilization
- hucksterism — a retailer of small articles, especially a peddler of fruits and vegetables; hawker.
- humouristic — Alternative spelling of humoristic.
- insectarium — a place in which a collection of living insects is kept, as in a zoo.
- intercampus — the grounds, often including the buildings, of a college, university, or school.
- loose scrum — a play in which a bunch of players gather around an opponent's dropped ball and then attempt to gain possession of the ball.
- lumberjacks — Plural form of lumberjack.
- lumbosacral — of, relating to, or involving the lumbar and sacral regions or parts of the body.
- lumbricalis — lumbrical.
- lumpsuckers — Plural form of lumpsucker.
- macropodous — (of a leaf) having a long stalk.
- main course — Nautical. a square mainsail.
- manicurists — Plural form of manicurist.
- manuscripts — Plural form of manuscript.
- marcellinus — Saint, died a.d. 304, pope 296–304.
- marcellus i — Saint, died a.d. 309, pope 308–309.
- mecopterous — belonging or pertaining to the insect order Mecoptera, comprising the scorpionflies and hangingflies.
- meerschaums — Plural form of meerschaum.
- mesocardium — the double layer of splanchnic mesoderm supporting the embryonic heart.
- microbursts — Plural form of microburst.
- micrococcus — any spherical bacterium of the genus Micrococcus, occurring in irregular masses, many species of which are pigmented and are saprophytic or parasitic.
- microcuries — Plural form of microcurie.
- microfungus — A fungus in which no sexual process has been observed or in which the reproductive organs are microscopic.
- microporous — composed of or having extremely small pores.
- microquasar — (astronomy, stars) A high-energy binary star system that includes black hole or neutron star and which resembles a quasar.