11-letter words containing s, i, m, o, u
- favouritism — (British) The unfair favouring of one person or group at the expense of another.
- field mouse — any of various short-tailed mice or voles inhabiting fields and meadows.
- filamentous — composed of or containing filaments.
- film studio — a place where films are made
- formularies — Plural form of formulary.
- formularise — (British) To express as a formula, to formulate.
- formulising — formulate.
- frotteurism — (sexuality) The act of rubbing one’s genitalia against another’s person, usually that of a stranger. Must be non-consensual and is considered a psychiatric condition as well as a criminal offense in most places. (If consensual, it is known as frottage).
- fusion bomb — hydrogen bomb.
- gemmiferous — bearing buds or gemmae; gemmiparous.
- gemmiparous — producing or reproducing by buds or gemmae.
- glucosamine — an aminosugar occurring in many polysaccharides of vertebrate tissue and also as the major component of chitin.
- glumiferous — having glumes
- gourmandise — unrestrained enjoyment of fine foods, wines, and the like.
- gourmandism — a person who is fond of good eating, often indiscriminatingly and to excess.
- guildswoman — a woman who is a member of a guild
- gummiferous — producing gum
- gynostegium — a specialized caplike mass of tissue covering a gynoecium.
- gynostemium — the united stamens and pistil of an orchid.
- helminthous — having intestinal worms
- hemipterous — belonging or pertaining to the Hemiptera, an order of insects having forewings that are thickened and leathery at the base and membranous at the apex, comprising the true bugs.
- hermoupolis — a port in Greece, capital of Cyclades department, on the E coast of Syros Island. Pop: (municipality): 13 496 (2001)
- hippocampus — Classical Mythology. a sea horse with two forefeet, and a body ending in the tail of a dolphin or fish.
- hippodamous — horse-taming
- homoiousian — a member of a 4th-century a.d. church party that maintained that the essence of the Son is similar to, but not the same as, that of the Father.
- homophilous — Homophilic.
- honorariums — Plural form of honorarium.
- hormigueros — a city in W Puerto Rico, S of Mayagüez.
- house music — an up-tempo style of disco music characterized by deep bass rhythms, piano or synthesizer melodies, and soul-music singing, sometimes with elements of rap music.
- humouristic — Alternative spelling of humoristic.
- if you must — You say 'if you must' when you know that you cannot stop someone doing something that you think is wrong or stupid.
- ignominious — marked by or attended with ignominy; discreditable; humiliating: an ignominious retreat.
- ignoramuses — Plural form of ignoramus.
- illusionism — a technique of using pictorial methods in order to deceive the eye. Compare trompe l'oeil.
- immomentous — of no value, trifling
- immunoassay — any laboratory method for detecting a substance by using an antibody reactive with it.
- impecunious — having little or no money; penniless; poor.
- imperiously — domineering in a haughty manner; dictatorial; overbearing: an imperious manner; an imperious person.
- impetuosity — the quality or condition of being impetuous.
- impetuously — of, relating to, or characterized by sudden or rash action, emotion, etc.; impulsive: an impetuous decision; an impetuous person.
- impiousness — Quality of being impious.
- imponderous — (obsolete) imponderable.
- impostumate — affected by an abscess
- imposturous — the action or practice of imposing fraudulently upon others.
- imputations — Plural form of imputation.
- incommodius — Misspelling of incommodious.
- infusionism — the doctrine that the soul existed in a previous state and is infused into the body at conception or birth.
- insomuch as — to such an extent or degree; so (usually followed by that).
- intra muros — within the walls, as of a city.
- isomorphous — (of a compound or mineral) capable of crystallizing in a form similar to that of another compound or mineral, used especially of substances so closely related that they form end members of a series of solid solutions.