11-letter words containing s, o, n, g, r
- resignation — the act of resigning.
- ring-porous — having annual rings marked by a conspicuous band of large pores in wood formed in spring.
- rising trot — a horse's trot in which the rider rises from the saddle every second beat
- rose garden — where roses are grown
- san gennaro — San [san;; Italian sahn] /sæn;; Italian sɑn/ (Show IPA), Januarius.
- sand grouse — any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young.
- sand-groper — a native of the arid region of Western Australia.
- saprolegnia — a variety of fungus
- scaremonger — a person who creates or spreads alarming news.
- scenography — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
- 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
- scuppernong — a silvery amber-green variety of muscadine grape.
- 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.
- self-strong — having, showing, or able to exert great bodily or muscular power; physically vigorous or robust: a strong boy.
- sense organ — a specialized bodily structure that receives or is sensitive to internal or external stimuli; receptor.
- sermonizing — the act of talking as if delivering a sermon
- serpiginous — (formerly) a creeping or spreading skin disease, as ringworm.
- shade-grown — grown in the shade, especially in artificial shade, as under a cloth.
- sherrington — Sir Charles Scott, 1861–1952, English physiologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1932.
- shoe-string — a shoelace.
- short-range — having a limited extent, as in distance or time: a short-range shot; a short-range plan.
- shortchange — to give less than the correct change to.
- shortcoming — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
- 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
- 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.
- singaporean — an island on the Strait of Singapore, off the S tip of the Malay Peninsula.
- single room — hotel room for one person
- ski touring — cross-country skiing.
- slot racing — the activity of racing slot cars.
- smoking car — smoker (def 2a).
- smouldering — burning slowly without flame, usually emitting smoke
- sniffer dog — a dog trained to find illegal drugs or explosives by smell.
- snobography — an account or description of snobs
- snorkelling — the activity of swimming with a snorkel
- snow bridge — a mass of snow bridging a crevasse, sometimes affording a risky way across it
- snow grains — precipitation consisting of white, opaque ice particles usually less than one millimeter in diameter.
- snowsurfing — the use of a board without bindings to travel over snow
- snowy egret — a white egret, Egretta thula, of the warmer parts of the Western Hemisphere: formerly hunted in great numbers for its plumes, the species is now protected and has recovered.
- soft ground — an etching ground usually mixed with tallow. Compare hard ground.
- soil boring — Soil boring is a technique used to survey soil by taking several shallow cores out of the sediment. It is used when a drilling jacket or jack-up rig is to be supported on the soil.
- song thrush — a common, European songbird, Turdus philomelos.
- songwriting — composing melodies and lyrics
- sonographer — a diagnostic technician who operates a sonograph
- soul-baring — confessing intimate thoughts
- sour orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.