11-letter words containing s, i, n, o, r
- sardonicism — characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering: a sardonic grin.
- sash ribbon — a strip of steel or aluminum alloy for connecting a vertically sliding window sash with a counterweight.
- satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- sauropsidan — relating to the Sauropsida or animals belonging to the Sauriodea group in Huxley's classification
- scarf joint — a joint in which two timbers or other structural members are fitted together with long end laps of various forms and held in place with bolts, straps, keys, fishplates, etc., to resist tension or compression.
- 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.
- schrodinger — Erwin [er-vin] /ˈɛr vɪn/ (Show IPA), 1887–1961, German physicist: Nobel prize 1933.
- scorchingly — in a scorching manner
- scorpaenoid — resembling or related to the family Scorpaenidae.
- scorpionfly — any of several harmless insects of the order Mecoptera, the male of certain species having a reproductive structure that resembles the sting of a scorpion.
- screw joint — a type of joint that is fastened by means of screws
- scrimshoner — a person who makes scrimshaw
- second-tier — not in the first rank
- secondarily — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
- secretional — of or relating to secretion
- seditionary — of or relating to sedition; seditious.
- segregation — the act or practice of segregating; a setting apart or separation of people or things from others or from the main body or group: gender segregation in some fundamentalist religions.
- seigniorage — something claimed by a sovereign or superior as a prerogative.
- seigniorial — of or relating to a seignior.
- semi-normal — conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural.
- senatorship — the office or position of a senator
- senior prom — a formal dance or gathering of high school students held at the end of the senior year
- senior year — final year of school or college
- sensorially — with respect to sensation; in a sensorial way
- septentrion — Obsolete. the north.
- seriousness — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
- sermonizing — the act of talking as if delivering a sermon
- serpiginous — (formerly) a creeping or spreading skin disease, as ringworm.
- serrulation — serrulate condition or form.
- set on fire — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
- sharonville — a town in SW Ohio.
- sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
- sherrington — Sir Charles Scott, 1861–1952, English physiologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1932.
- shirt front — the front of a shirt, especially the part that is exposed when a jacket or vest is worn.
- shoe-string — a shoelace.
- shortcoming — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
- shower unit — fitted shower
- showeriness — the state or quality of being showery
- showrooming — the practice of looking at an item of merchandise in a shop, often using a smartphone app to compare its price elsewhere, before buying it from an online distributor
- shroud-line — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
- sideropenia — a lack of iron in the body
- sign on for — If you sign on for something, you officially agree to work for an organization or do a course of study by signing a contract or form.
- signatories — having signed, or joined in signing, a document: the signatory powers to a treaty.
- silverpoint — a technique of drawing with a silver stylus on specially prepared paper.
- simmer down — to cook or cook in a liquid at or just below the boiling point.
- simon peter — Peter (def 1).
- singaporean — an island on the Strait of Singapore, off the S tip of the Malay Peninsula.
- single room — hotel room for one person
- sinistrorse — (from a point of view at the center of the spiral) rising spirally in a counterclockwise manner, as a stem (opposed to dextrorse).
- sir anthony — Sir Anthony, Van Dyck, Sir Anthony.