11-letter words containing s, u, r, e, l
- semelparous — (of a plant) producing flowers and fruit only once before dying
- semi-luxury — a material object, service, etc., conducive to sumptuous living, usually a delicacy, elegance, or refinement of living rather than a necessity: Gold cufflinks were a luxury not allowed for in his budget.
- semidiurnal — pertaining to, consisting of, or accomplished in half a day.
- seminatural — partly natural and partly cultivated
- semipopular — relatively popular; quite popular
- sepulchrous — of the nature of a sepulchre
- sericulture — the raising of silk worms for the production of raw silk.
- serratulate — having small serrations; mildly serrate
- serrulation — serrulate condition or form.
- sertularian — a type of hydroid that forms stiff, feathery colonies in which the cups holding the zooids are sessile.
- sesquialter — in the ratio of 3:2
- shipbuilder — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
- shroud-line — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
- shutterless — lacking a shutter
- singularize — to make singular.
- skulduddery — (of people) adultery
- skulduggery — dishonorable proceedings; mean dishonesty or trickery: bribery, graft, and other such skulduggery.
- slaughtered — the killing or butchering of cattle, sheep, etc., especially for food.
- sleep rough — to spend the night in the open; be without a home or without shelter
- slough over — to gloss over; minimize
- sluggardise — indolence or laziness
- sluggardize — to make lazy or sluggish
- slumberland — an imaginary land described to children as the place they enter during sleep.
- slumberless — to sleep, especially lightly; doze; drowse.
- slumbersome — tired; sleepy
- slumdweller — a person who lives in a slum.
- smouldering — burning slowly without flame, usually emitting smoke
- solar house — a house designed to absorb and store solar heat.
- 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.
- soluble rna — a small RNA molecule, consisting of a strand of nucleotides folded into a clover-leaf shape, that picks up an unattached amino acid within the cell cytoplasm and conveys it to the ribosome for protein synthesis. Abbreviation: tRNA.
- soul sister — a black female, especially a fellow black female.
- 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
- southlander — a person from the south
- spectacular — of or like a spectacle; marked by or given to an impressive, large-scale display.
- specularity — the state of resembling a mirror
- speculatory — a place suitable for observation
- spinel ruby — ruby spinel.
- spirituelle — having a refined and lively mind or wit; spirituel
- splendorous — brilliant or gorgeous appearance, coloring, etc.; magnificence: the splendor of the palace.
- sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation
- square deal — the stated policy of President Theodore Roosevelt, originally promising fairness in all dealings with labor and management and later extended to include other groups.
- square meal — a nourishing or filling meal: You'll feel better after you've had a square meal.
- square mile — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one mile on each side; 2.59 square kilometers. 2 , sq. mi. Abbreviation: mi.
- square sail — a sail set beneath a horizontal yard, the normal position of which, when not trimmed to the wind, is directly athwartships.
- squirreling — any of numerous arboreal, bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Sciurus, of the family Sciuridae.
- st. laurent — Louis Stephen [lwee ste-fen] /lwi stɛˈfɛn/ (Show IPA), 1882–1973, prime minister of Canada 1948–57.
- stan laurel — Stan (Arthur Stanley Jefferson) 1890–1965, U.S. motion-picture actor and comedian, born in England.
- strangulate — Pathology, Surgery. to compress or constrict (a duct, intestine, vessel, etc.) so as to prevent circulation or suppress function.
- street luge — the sport of racing down a paved incline on a wheeled sled, in a supine position.
- strengthful — full of strength, strong