11-letter words containing s, p, u, r, i, o
- sauropsidan — relating to the Sauropsida or animals belonging to the Sauriodea group in Huxley's classification
- scapigerous — having a scape or leafless stalk
- scriptorium — a room, as in a monastery, library, or other institution, where manuscripts are stored, read, or copied.
- scrumptious — very pleasing, especially to the senses; delectable; splendid: a scrumptious casserole; a scrumptious satin gown.
- semipopular — relatively popular; quite popular
- septiferous — in possession of a septum or partition
- serpiginous — (formerly) a creeping or spreading skin disease, as ringworm.
- spice route — an ancient trade route followed by merchants, importers and exporters trading in exotic spices such as cloves and cinnamon
- spiniferous — (esp of plants) bearing spines or thorns
- spiriferous — having a spire or spiral parts.
- spore fruit — a spore-bearing structure, as an ascoscarp; sporocarp.
- sporiferous — bearing spores.
- sporogonium — the sporangium of mosses and liverworts.
- sporulation — to produce spores.
- sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation
- springhouse — a small storehouse built over a spring or part of a brook, for keeping such foods as meat and dairy products cool and fresh.
- stipuliform — shaped like a stipule.
- subprioress — a nun junior to a prioress
- subtropical — bordering on the tropics; nearly tropical.
- sun-worship — the act of worshipping the sun as a deity
- superegoist — an exceptionally selfish or self-centred person; someone who is very self-important
- superheroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- superimpose — to impose, place, or set over, above, or on something else.
- superiority — the quality or condition of being superior.
- 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.
- superpolite — extremely polite
- superprofit — above-average profits gained through enterprise
- supersonics — the branch of science that deals with supersonic phenomena.
- supervision — the act or function of supervising; superintendence.
- supervisory — of, relating to, or having supervision.
- suppository — a solid, conical mass of medicinal substance that melts upon insertion into the rectum or vagina.
- suppression — the act of suppressing.
- suppuration — the process of suppurating.
- surgeonship — the position or responsibility of a surgeon
- suspiration — a long, deep sigh.
- torpedinous — of, relating to, or resembling a torpedo
- tripetalous — having three petals.
- triphibious — employing or involving land, naval, and air forces in a combined operation.
- triphyllous — having three leaves.
- triptolemus — a favorite of Demeter and the inventor of the plow and patron of agriculture, connected with the Eleusinian mysteries.
- trisepalous — having three sepals.
- trispermous — having three seeds.
- unipersonal — consisting of or existing as one person only.
- unisotropic — Physics. of equal physical properties along all axes. Compare anisotropic (def 1).
- unpromising — unlikely to be favorable or successful, as the weather, a situation, or a career.
- uranoscopid — any fish of the family Uranoscopidae, comprising the stargazers.
- urediospore — the spore of the rust fungi that appears between the aeciospore and the teliospore, commonly the summer spore.
- uriniparous — producing or making urine, as of the tubes in the kidney
- usurpations — an act of usurping; wrongful or illegal encroachment, infringement, or seizure.
- xerophilous — Botany. growing in or adapted to dry, especially dry and hot, regions.