11-letter words containing s, i, g, u, r
- soul-baring — confessing intimate thoughts
- southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
- spitzenburg — any of several red or yellow varieties of apple that ripen in the autumn.
- sporogonium — the sporangium of mosses and liverworts.
- 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.
- spur blight — a disease of raspberries, characterized by reddish-brown spots on the stems, caused by a fungus, Didymella applanata.
- squirreling — any of numerous arboreal, bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Sciurus, of the family Sciuridae.
- stourbridge — an industrial town in W central England, in Dudley unitary authority, West Midlands. Pop: 55 480 (2001)
- straight up — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- straight-up — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- strong suit — Bridge. a long suit that contains high cards.
- subfreezing — below the freezing point.
- subirrigate — to irrigate beneath the surface of the ground, as with water passing through a system of underground porous pipes or transmitted through the subsoil from ditches, etc.
- submarginal — Biology. near the margin.
- submarining — a vessel that can be submerged and navigated under water, usually built for warfare and armed with torpedoes or guided missiles.
- submergible — submersible.
- subrogation — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
- subscribing — to pledge, as by signing an agreement, to give or pay (a sum of money) as a contribution, gift, or investment: He subscribed $6,000 for the new church.
- súgán chair — a chair with a seat made from woven súgáns
- sugar basin — sugar bowl.
- sui generis — of his, her, its, or their own kind; unique.
- summerising — to prepare (a house, car, etc.) so as to counteract the hot weather of summer: to summerize a house by adding air conditioning.
- superbright — exceptionally bright
- superceding — supersede.
- superegoist — an exceptionally selfish or self-centred person; someone who is very self-important
- superseding — to replace in power, authority, effectiveness, acceptance, use, etc., as by another person or thing.
- supersinger — an exceptional singer
- superstring — any supersymmetric string theory in which each type of elementary particle is treated as a vibration of a single fundamental string (superstring) at a particular frequency.
- suppressing — to put an end to the activities of (a person, body of persons, etc.): to suppress the Communist and certain left-leaning parties.
- suppurating — to produce or discharge pus, as a wound; maturate.
- surfcasting — the act, technique, or sport of fishing by casting from the shoreline into the sea, usually using heavy-duty tackle.
- surgeonfish — any tropical, coral-reef fish of the family Acanthuridae, with one or more sharp spines near the base of the tail fin.
- surgeonship — the position or responsibility of a surgeon
- surgicenter — a surgical facility, not based in a hospital, where minor surgery is performed on an outpatient basis.
- surmounting — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
- surplussing — something that remains above what is used or needed.
- surrogation — a person appointed to act for another; deputy.
- surrounding — something that surrounds, as the area, border, etc., around an object or central space: a tile surround for the shower stall.
- surveilling — to place under surveillance.
- swiss guard — a member of a corps of bodyguards protecting the pope, with membership restricted to natives of Switzerland.
- terrigenous — produced by the earth.
- tîrgu mureş — a city in central Romania.
- transfigure — to change in outward form or appearance; transform.
- turing plus — Systems programming language, a concurrent descendant of Turing. Available from Holt Software Assocs, Toronto <[email protected]>.
- turing test — (artificial intelligence) A criterion proposed by Alan Turing in 1950 for deciding whether a computer is intelligent. Turing called it "the Imitation Game" and offered it as a replacement for the question, "Can machines think?" A human holds a written conversation on any topic with an unseen correspondent (nowadays it might be by electronic mail or chat). If the human believes he is talking to another human when he is really talking to a computer then the computer has passed the Turing test and is deemed to be intelligent. Turing predicted that within 50 years (by the year 2000) technological progress would produce computing machines with a capacity of 10**9 bits, and that with such machinery, a computer program would be able to fool the average questioner for 5 minutes about 70% of the time. The Loebner Prize is a competition to find a computer program which can pass an unrestricted Turing test. See also AI-complete.
- turkish rug — any of a large variety of handwoven rugs produced in Turkey, characterized by coarse, heavy yarn and a long, uneven pile.
- turn signal — A car's turn signals are the flashing lights that tell you it is going to turn left or right.
- under siege — being surrounded and attacked
- under-sight — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
- under-using — to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.