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11-letter words containing s, u, r, d, i

  • peridesmium — the membrane of cellular tissue surrounding a ligament
  • piss around — If you say that someone pisses around or pisses about, you mean they waste a lot of time doing unimportant things.
  • pressurized — brought to and maintained at an atmospheric pressure higher than that of the surroundings: cooking with pressurized steam.
  • productions — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
  • prostituted — a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money; whore; harlot.
  • pseudoprime — A backgammon prime (six consecutive occupied points) with one point missing. This term is an esoteric pun derived from a mathematical method that, rather than determining precisely whether a number is prime (has no divisors), uses a statistical technique to decide whether the number is "probably" prime. A number that passes this test is called a pseudoprime. The hacker backgammon usage stems from the idea that a pseudoprime is almost as good as a prime: it does the job of a prime until proven otherwise, and that probably won't happen.
  • quadrantids — a collection of meteors comprising a meteor shower (Quadran·tid me·teor show·er) visible around January 31 and having its apparent origin in the constellation Boötes.
  • quadrasonic — of, noting, or pertaining to the recording and reproduction of sound over four separate transmission or direct reproduction channels instead of the customary two of the stereo system: a quadraphonic recording.
  • quadrigatus — a silver coin of ancient Rome, bearing an image of Jupiter in a quadriga on the reverse.
  • radiculitis — inflammation of a spinal nerve root.
  • radiocesium — cesium 137.
  • radiosodium — the radioactive isotope of sodium having an atomic mass of 24 and a half-life of 14.9 hours: used as a tracer in biochemistry.
  • re-situated — to put in or on a particular site or place; locate.
  • rediffusion — act of diffusing; state of being diffused.
  • reductivism — reductionism.
  • rhabdovirus — any of various RNA-containing viruses of the family Rhabdoviridae, including the rabies virus.
  • rhomboideus — either of two back muscles that function to move the scapula.
  • rifled slug — a shotgun projectile with helical grooves on its sides for imparting a spin to it when it is fired through the smooth bore of the shotgun.
  • rudesheimer — any of the Rheingau wines from the vineyards near Rüdesheim, a town on the Rhine River in W Germany.
  • sauropsidan — relating to the Sauropsida or animals belonging to the Sauriodea group in Huxley's classification
  • schrödinbug — (jargon, programming)   /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
  • scrutinised — to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
  • scrutinized — to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
  • scuba diver — sb who dives underwater
  • secularized — to make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism.
  • semidiurnal — pertaining to, consisting of, or accomplished in half a day.
  • shipbuilder — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
  • shroud-laid — noting a fiber rope of four strands laid right-handed with or without a heart.
  • shroud-line — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
  • shrubberied — having a shrubbery
  • sluggardise — indolence or laziness
  • sluggardize — to make lazy or sluggish
  • smouldering — burning slowly without flame, usually emitting smoke
  • sodium-free — (of food) containing less than 5 mg of sodium per serving
  • sound mixer — sb who records film sound
  • soured milk — milk that has been deliberately soured by fermentation or by adding acids such as lemon juice or vinegar, to be used in cooking
  • southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
  • sphaeridium — a round body found on sea urchins
  • stourbridge — an industrial town in W central England, in Dudley unitary authority, West Midlands. Pop: 55 480 (2001)
  • strike dumb — to amaze; astound; astonish
  • strike fund — an amount of money reserved by a union to make payments to striking works should a strike occur
  • strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
  • subcardinal — (of veins) next to the cardinal veins
  • subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
  • subdelirium — a mild delirium with lucid intervals.
  • subdirector — an assistant or secondary director
  • subdistrict — a division of a district.
  • subindustry — a subdivision of an industry
  • subordinacy — a subordinate person or thing.
  • subordinary — any of several heraldic bearings of secondary importance to the ordinary, such as the lozenge, the orle, and the fret
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