11-letter words containing s, i, g, n, u
- outspeeding — Present participle of outspeed.
- outstanding — prominent; conspicuous; striking: an outstanding example of courage.
- outswearing — Present participle of outswear.
- outswimming — Present participle of outswim.
- outswingers — Plural form of outswinger.
- persian rug — an Oriental rug made in Persia (Iran), having rich, soft colors in any of various intricate, often floral, patterns
- picturising — to represent in a picture, especially in a motion picture; make a picture of.
- porriginous — pertaining to or designating porrigo
- postulating — to ask, demand, or claim.
- posturizing — to posture; pose.
- presumingly — presumptuous.
- prosecuting — carrying out a prosecution
- pruriginous — of, relating to, or causing prurigo.
- publishings — the activities or business of a publisher, especially of books or periodicals: He plans to go into publishing after college.
- questioning — indicating or implying a question: a questioning tone in her voice.
- quislingism — the act of aiding or collaborating with an occupying force
- resultingly — as a result.
- ring-porous — having annual rings marked by a conspicuous band of large pores in wood formed in spring.
- rusticating — to go to the country.
- salsuginous — full of salt or able to grow in salty soil
- salting out — the addition of salt to a mixture to precipitate proteins, soaps, and other simple organic compounds.
- salting-out — Salting-out is the effect when adding a salt to a solvent containing an organic solute reduces the solubility of that solute.
- samuel ting — Samuel C(hao) C(hung) [chou choo ng] /tʃaʊ tʃʊŋ/ (Show IPA), born 1936, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1976.
- sanguinaria — the bloodroot, Sanguinaria canadensis.
- sanguineous — of, relating to, or containing blood.
- 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.
- schuschnigg — Kurt von [kurt von;; German koort fuh n] /kɜrt vɒn;; German kurt fən/ (Show IPA) (1897–1977), Austrian statesman in the U.S.: Chancellor of Austria 1934–38.
- sculpturing — the act of sculpturing or carving
- sdeignfully — disdainfully
- seigneurial — a lord, especially a feudal lord.
- self-ruling — of or relating to self-rule
- serpiginous — (formerly) a creeping or spreading skin disease, as ringworm.
- shanhaiguan — a city in NE Hebei province, in NE China, on the Gulf of Liaodong: strategically located at the E end of the Great Wall.
- showjumping — horseriding event
- shufflingly — in the manner of a shuffle
- sicknursing — the nursing of the sick
- sign manual — a personal signature, especially that of a sovereign or official on a public document.
- simon magus — Simon (defs 5, 6).
- single-hung — (of a window) having two sashes, only one of which is movable.
- singularism — any philosophy that explains phenomena from a single principle
- singularist — someone who advocates singularism
- singularity — the state, fact, or quality of being singular.
- singularize — to make singular.
- singulative — a grammatical form or construction that expresses a singular entity or indicates that an individual is singled out from a group, especially as opposed to a collective noun, as snowflake as opposed to snow.
- ski jumping — a competitive event, included in the Nordic combined, in which a skier jumps from a ski jump, often traveling 230 to 300 feet (70 to 90 meters) in the air, with scores being based on both the skier's form and the distance of the jump.
- ski touring — cross-country skiing.
- ski-jumping — the sport or activity of (skiers) jumping from a high ramp overhanging a slope
- slumgullion — a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
- smoking gun — indisputable proof or evidence of a crime.
- smouldering — burning slowly without flame, usually emitting smoke