11-letter words containing s, i, t, u, a
- chauvinists — zealous and aggressive patriotism or blind enthusiasm for military glory.
- chin cactus — any of various globular cacti of the genus Gymnocalycium, native to South America, having white or pinkish flowers and a chinlike protrusion below each cluster of spines.
- chula vista — city in SW Calif.: suburb of San Diego: pop. 174,000
- cincinnatus — Lucius Quinctius (ˈluːsɪəs ˈkwɪŋktɪəs). ?519–438 bc, Roman general and statesman, regarded as a model of simple virtue; dictator of Rome during two crises (458; 439), retiring to his farm after each one
- circulators — Plural form of circulator.
- colatitudes — Plural form of colatitude.
- communalist — An advocate of communalism.
- contaminous — to make impure or unsuitable by contact or mixture with something unclean, bad, etc.: to contaminate a lake with sewage.
- continuants — Plural form of continuant.
- contrarious — (of people or animals) perverse or obstinate
- coruscating — A coruscating speech or performance is lively, intelligent, and impressive.
- coruscation — a gleam or flash of light
- cosmonautic — Of or related to cosmonauts or cosmonautics.
- crapulosity — the quality of being crapulous or crapulent
- cultivators — Plural form of cultivator.
- culturalism — A belief system that emphasizes the role of culture.
- cunctatious — addicted to or prone to cunctation
- curatorship — The rank or period of being a curator.
- curialistic — of or relating to curialism or curialists
- curtainless — without a curtain or curtains
- cuspidation — decoration using cusps
- custard pie — Custard pies are artificial pies which people sometimes throw at each other as a joke.
- custard-pie — characteristic of a type of slapstick comedy in which a performer throws a pie in another's face: popular especially in the era of vaudeville and early silent films.
- customaries — Plural form of customary.
- customarily — according to custom; usually
- cutlassfish — any of a family (Trichiuridae) of very long, thin percoid fishes with a wide mouth and sharp, pointed teeth, found near the surface in tropical seas
- daisycutter — Alternative form of daisy cutter.
- dasht-i-lut — a desert plateau in central and E central Iran
- deaf-mutism — unable to hear and speak.
- decussating — Present participle of decussate.
- decussation — a decussating or being decussated
- degustation — the act of sampling a wide variety of foods, wines, etc.
- delta virus — a severe form of hepatitis caused by an incomplete virus (delta virus) that links to the hepatitis B virus for its replication.
- demutualise — If a building society or insurance company demutualises, it abandons its mutual status and becomes a limited company.
- denunciates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of denunciate.
- depasturing — Present participle of depasture.
- deputations — Plural form of deputation.
- desideratum — something lacked and wanted
- desublimate — Psychology. to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- diacoustics — the branch of physics that deals with refracted sound
- diluvialist — a person who believes in the theory of diluvialism
- disaccustom — to cause to lose a habit: In the country I was quickly disaccustomed of sleeping late.
- disasterous — Misspelling of disastrous.
- disculpated — Simple past tense and past participle of disculpate.
- discussants — Plural form of discussant.
- disfeatured — Simple past tense and past participle of disfeature.
- dismutation — (biochemistry) A disproportionation reaction, especially in a biological context, in which oxidized and reduced forms of a chemical species are produced simultaneously.
- dispatchful — of or relating to dispatch, particularly in terms of haste
- displuviate — (of the atrium of an ancient Roman house) having roofs sloping downward and outward from a central opening.
- disputation — the act of disputing or debating; verbal controversy; discussion or debate.