11-letter words containing s, t, a, n
- stringboard — a board or facing covering the ends of the steps in a staircase.
- strombolian — relating to or denoting a type of volcanic eruption characterized by repeated fountaining or jetting of fluid lava into the air
- strong gale — a wind of 47–54 miles per hour (21–24 m/sec).
- strong meat — anything arousing fear, anger, repulsion, etc, except among a tolerant or receptive minority
- stump ranch — (in British Columbia) an undeveloped ranch in the bush where animals graze among the stumps of felled trees
- stunt woman — a woman who substitutes for an actor in scenes requiring hazardous or acrobatic feats.
- stylization — to design in or cause to conform to a particular style, as of representation or treatment in art; conventionalize.
- sub-captain — a person who is at the head of or in authority over others; chief; leader.
- subadjacent — lying near, close, or contiguous; adjoining; neighboring: a motel adjacent to the highway.
- subaffluent — between poor and affluent
- subarration — an ancient way of marrying by giving a ring or gift
- subaudition — an act or instance of understanding or mentally supplying something not expressed.
- subbasement — a basement or one of a series of basements below the main basement of a building.
- subcontract — a contract by which one agrees to render services or to provide materials necessary for the performance of another contract.
- subcontrary — one of two propositions that can both be true but cannot both be false.
- subdominant — Music. the fourth tone of a diatonic scale, next below the dominant.
- subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- subindicate — to indirectly indicate or hint
- subinterval — an interval that is a subset of a given interval.
- subitaneous — sudden
- subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
- sublimation — Psychology. the diversion of 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.
- subluxation — a partial dislocation, as of a joint; sprain.
- subnational — of, relating to, or maintained by a nation as an organized whole or independent political unit: national affairs.
- subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- subornation — to bribe or induce (someone) unlawfully or secretly to perform some misdeed or to commit a crime.
- subpanation — the belief that the body and blood of Christ are present in the bread and wine of Communion
- subrational — less than or almost rational.
- subrogation — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
- substance p — a small peptide released upon stimulation in the nervous system and involved in regulation of the pain threshold.
- substandard — below standard or less than adequate: substandard housing conditions.
- substantial — of ample or considerable amount, quantity, size, etc.: a substantial sum of money.
- substantive — a noun.
- subtacksman — a renter who holds the property they rent by subletting it
- subterminal — situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
- subtraction — an act or instance of subtracting.
- subungulate — any member of the superorder of animal termed Subungulata (also called Paenungulata), containing the elephant, sea cow and hyrax, as well as two extinct orders
- suburbanite — a person who lives in a suburb of a city or large town.
- sudetenland — a mountainous region in the N Czech Republic, including the Sudeten and the Erzgebirge: annexed by Germany 1938; returned to Czechoslovakia 1945.
- suffixation — Grammar. an affix that follows the element to which it is added, as -ly in kindly.
- suffocation — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- sugar tongs — small tongs used for serving cubed sugar.
- sulfonation — the process of attaching the sulfonic acid group, –SO 3 H, directly to carbon in an organic compound.
- sulfuration — to combine, treat, or impregnate with sulfur, the fumes of burning sulfur, etc.
- sun yat-sen — 1866–1925, Chinese political and revolutionary leader.
- sunday best — Sunday clothes.
- superaltern — a universal proposition that is the basis for the immediate inference of a corresponding particular proposition.
- superdainty — very dainty
- superjacent — lying above or upon something else.
- supernatant — floating above or on the surface.