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11-letter words containing s, u, o, l, c

  • salon music — music of a simple, agreeable, frequently sentimental character, played usually by a small orchestra.
  • sansculotte — (originally) a revolutionary of the poorer class
  • scaberulous — tending to be scabrous or slightly rough to the touch
  • scarf cloud — pileus (def 3).
  • sceuophylax — a keeper of sacred vessels
  • school fund — the money provided by a government or raised by parents and teachers to finance the running of a school
  • schoolhouse — a building in which a school is conducted.
  • sclerocauly — the feature of having a hard, dry stem
  • scottsbluff — a city in W Nebraska, on the North Platte River.
  • scoundrelly — having the character of a scoundrel; unscrupulous; villainous.
  • scrobicular — of or relating to the smooth areas on a sea urchin surrounding its nodules
  • scuffle hoe — a hoe with a flat blade, pushed back and forth through the surface soil, as to weed
  • sepulchrous — of the nature of a sepulchre
  • shuttlecock — Also called shuttle. the object that is struck back and forth in badminton and battledore, consisting of a feathered cork head and a plastic crown.
  • silvicolous — living or growing in woodlands.
  • sipunculoid — a member of the group Sipunculoidea
  • skin colour — the colour of a person's skin, ie Black, White, etc
  • slop bucket — slop pail.
  • social club — A social club is a club where members go in order to meet each other and enjoy leisure activities.
  • social fund — (in Britain) a social security fund from which loans or payments may be made to people in cases of extreme need
  • social unit — a person or a group of persons, as a family, functioning as a unit in society.
  • sociosexual — of or relating to relationships between persons that involve sexuality.
  • soft launch — the launch of a website in stages, with regular updating
  • solanaceous — belonging to the Solanaceae, the nightshade family of plants.
  • 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.
  • solicitudes — the state of being solicitous; anxiety or concern.
  • sound block — a small block of wood for rapping with a gavel.
  • specialogue — a mail-order catalogue aimed at a specific group of customers
  • speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
  • speculatory — a place suitable for observation
  • spiculation — formation into spicules.
  • spondulicks — money; cash.
  • statcoulomb — the electrostatic unit of a quantity of electricity, equivalent to 3.3356 × 10 −10 coulomb and equal to the quantity of charge transferred in one second across a conductor in which there is a constant current of one statampere.
  • storm cloud — raincloud before storm
  • subacromial — the outward end of the spine of the scapula or shoulder blade.
  • subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
  • subchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
  • subcolumnar — almost or imperfectly columnar.
  • subcortical — situated beneath the cortex.
  • subdiaconal — of or relating to a subdeacon.
  • submolecule — a part of a molecule
  • subtropical — bordering on the tropics; nearly tropical.
  • subvocalize — to form (words) silently by moving the lips or other vocal organs without vocalization
  • suicidology — the study of the causes and prevention of suicide.
  • superschool — a large school
  • supracostal — above the rib
  • suspicional — of or relating to suspicion, especially morbid or insane suspicions.
  • suzie cobol — /soo'zee koh'bol/ 1. (IBM, probably from Frank Zappa's "Suzy Creamcheese") A coder straight out of training school who knows everything except the value of comments in plain English. Also (fashionable among personkind wishing to avoid accusations of sexism) "Sammy Cobol" or (in some non-IBM circles) "Cobol Charlie". 2. (proposed) Meta-name for any code grinder, analogous to J. Random Hacker.
  • telescopium — an inconspicuous constellation in the S hemisphere, close to Sagittarius and Ara
  • tenaciously — holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold (often followed by of): a tenacious grip on my arm; tenacious of old habits.
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