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11-letter words containing s, o, u, r, c, e

  • persecutors — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
  • persecutory — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
  • perspicuous — clearly expressed or presented; lucid.
  • piperaceous — belonging to the Piperacae, the pepper family of plants.
  • pot scourer — a small ball of wire or stiff plastic, or a flat piece of a rough fabric used for cleaning kitchen pots and pans
  • pre-closure — the act of closing; the state of being closed.
  • precautious — using or displaying precaution: a precautious reply; a precautious person.
  • precipitous — of the nature of or characterized by precipices: a precipitous wall of rock.
  • preconquest — of or relating to the time before the conquest of one people, region, or country by another.
  • prime focus — the focal point of the objective lens or primary mirror of a telescope
  • procrustean — pertaining to or suggestive of Procrustes.
  • prosecuting — carrying out a prosecution
  • prosecution — Law. the institution and carrying on of legal proceedings against a person. the body of officials by whom such proceedings are instituted and carried on.
  • prosecutory — of, relating to, or concerned with prosecution.
  • prosecutrix — a female prosecutor or plaintiff
  • race-course — racetrack.
  • racecourses — Plural form of racecourse.
  • radiocesium — cesium 137.
  • ranch house — the house of the owner of a ranch, usually of one story and with a low-pitched roof.
  • re-accustom — to familiarize by custom or use; habituate: to accustom oneself to cold weather.
  • reconstruct — to construct again; rebuild; make over.
  • resourceful — able to deal skillfully and promptly with new situations, difficulties, etc.
  • resurrector — to raise from the dead; bring to life again.
  • rhamnaceous — belonging to the Rhamnaceae, the buckthorn family of plants.
  • rudderstock — the vertical member at the forward edge of a rudder, hinged at the sternpost and attached to the helm or steering gear.
  • sacré coeur — a basilica in Montmartre, Paris, dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
  • saucer dome — a dome having the form of a segment of a sphere, with the center well below the springing line; a shallow dome, as in Roman or Byzantine architecture.
  • scaberulous — tending to be scabrous or slightly rough to the touch
  • scapigerous — having a scape or leafless stalk
  • scaramouche — a stock character in commedia dell'arte and farce who is a cowardly braggart, easily beaten and frightened.
  • sclerocauly — the feature of having a hard, dry stem
  • scoundrelly — having the character of a scoundrel; unscrupulous; villainous.
  • scoutmaster — the leader or officer in charge of a band of scouts.
  • scuppernong — a silvery amber-green variety of muscadine grape.
  • sepulchrous — of the nature of a sepulchre
  • snap course — an academic course that can be passed with a minimum of effort.
  • sole-source — designating a company contracted, without competition, to be the sole supplier of a product or service, as a firm having an exclusive contract for certain military technology.
  • soup course — a part of a meal when soup is served
  • sour cherry — a cherry, Prunus cerasus, characterized by gray bark and the spreading habit of its branches.
  • source book — an original writing, as a document, record, or diary, that supplies an authoritative basis for future writing, study, evaluation, etc.
  • source code — program instructions that must be translated by a compiler, interpreter, or assembler into object code before execution.
  • space group — a set of symmetry elements that brings a periodic arrangement of points on a Bravais space lattice to its original position.
  • speculatory — a place suitable for observation
  • sperm count — the number of spermatozoa in an amount of semen, used as an indication of a man's fertility
  • spice route — an ancient trade route followed by merchants, importers and exporters trading in exotic spices such as cloves and cinnamon
  • stauroscope — an optical instrument for studying the crystal structure of minerals under polarized light
  • stock-route — a public trail having right of way across private properties and over which cattle and sheep may be herded to grazing grounds or to market.
  • stonecutter — a person who cuts or carves stone.
  • stretch out — lie down, sprawl
  • strumectomy — excision of part or all of a goiter.
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