11-letter words containing s, p, u, n
- stickup man — a man who commits a stickup.
- stipulating — to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of agreement (often followed by for).
- stipulation — a condition, demand, or promise in an agreement or contract.
- stop button — (on a DVD player, cassette recorder, etc) the off switch
- studentship — the state or condition of being a student.
- study up on — to make a careful study of
- stump ranch — (in British Columbia) an undeveloped ranch in the bush where animals graze among the stumps of felled trees
- sub-captain — a person who is at the head of or in authority over others; chief; leader.
- sub-company — subsidiary company.
- subpanation — the belief that the body and blood of Christ are present in the bread and wine of Communion
- subpoenaing — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
- substance p — a small peptide released upon stimulation in the nervous system and involved in regulation of the pain threshold.
- subsumption — an act of subsuming.
- suckerpunch — to strike (someone) with an unexpected blow.
- sucking-pig — a pig that is not yet weaned
- suction cup — a cup-shaped object of rubber, glass, plastic, etc., which, by producing a partial vacuum, can be made to adhere to or draw something to a surface.
- sugar spoon — a small spoon for serving granulated sugar, resembling but having a wider bowl than a teaspoon.
- sukarnapura — Jayapura
- sun prairie — a town in S Wisconsin.
- sun-worship — the act of worshipping the sun as a deity
- sundry shop — (in Malaysia) a shop, similar to a delicatessen, that sells predominantly Chinese foodstuffs
- superabound — to abound beyond something else.
- superagency — a very large agency, especially a large government agency that oversees smaller ones.
- superaltern — a universal proposition that is the basis for the immediate inference of a corresponding particular proposition.
- superceding — supersede.
- supercenter — a very large shopping centre or complex
- superdainty — very dainty
- superharden — harden (def 6).
- superinduce — to bring in or induce as an added feature, circumstance, etc.; superimpose.
- superinfect — to infect further with an additional infection
- superintend — to oversee and direct (work, processes, etc.).
- superjacent — lying above or upon something else.
- superlunary — situated above or beyond the moon.
- supermodern — highly modern
- supernatant — floating above or on the surface.
- supernation — a large body of people, associated with a particular territory, that is sufficiently conscious of its unity to seek or to possess a government peculiarly its own: The president spoke to the nation about the new tax.
- supernature — the supernatural
- supernormal — in excess of the normal or average: supernormal faculties; supernormal production.
- superperson — a person who transcends personal limits
- superrefine — to refine to an advanced degree
- superscreen — a very large screen
- superseding — to replace in power, authority, effectiveness, acceptance, use, etc., as by another person or thing.
- supersinger — an exceptional singer
- supersonics — the branch of science that deals with supersonic phenomena.
- superstring — any supersymmetric string theory in which each type of elementary particle is treated as a vibration of a single fundamental string (superstring) at a particular frequency.
- superstrong — extremely strong
- supertanker — a tanker with a deadweight capacity of over 75,000 tons.
- supervision — the act or function of supervising; superintendence.
- superweapon — an extremely powerful weapon
- suppedaneum — a shelf affixed to a cross for supporting the feet of the crucified.