11-letter words containing s, u, r, n
- insectarium — a place in which a collection of living insects is kept, as in a zoo.
- insinuatory — Insinuative.
- instructing — to furnish with knowledge, especially by a systematic method; teach; train; educate.
- instruction — machine instruction
- instructive — serving to instruct or inform; conveying instruction, knowledge, or information; enlightening.
- instructors — Plural form of instructor.
- instruments — Plural form of instrument.
- insufflator — to blow or breathe (something) in.
- insuperable — incapable of being passed over, overcome, or surmounted: an insuperable barrier.
- insuperably — In an insuperable manner.
- insurgently — In an insurgent manner.
- insurrectos — Plural form of insurrecto.
- intercampus — the grounds, often including the buildings, of a college, university, or school.
- intercourse — dealings or communication between individuals, groups, countries, etc.
- interfluous — interfluent
- interfluves — Plural form of interfluve.
- interfusion — to intersperse, intermingle, or permeate with something.
- interosseus — (anatomy) Any of various muscles located between bones.
- interradius — an interradial part or space
- intersexual — existing between the sexes; done or used by both sexes: an intersexual tennis competition.
- intervenous — (anatomy, botany) Between veins.
- intra muros — within the walls, as of a city.
- intrafusion — The act of pouring into a vessel.
- intramurals — Plural form of intramural.
- intrasexual — Within a group of individuals of the same sex.
- intravenous — within a vein.
- introducers — Plural form of introducer.
- intrusive r — linking r (def 2).
- intrusive-r — the r- sound as reintroduced into an utterance where there is an r in the spelling by speakers of an r- dropping dialect when a postvocalic r they would normally drop, as in the pronunciation of far as [fah] /fɑ/ (Show IPA) becomes intervocalic, as in far away pronounced as [fahr-uh-wey] /ˈfɑr əˈweɪ/ (Show IPA).
- intrusively — tending or apt to intrude; coming without invitation or welcome: intrusive memories of a lost love.
- investiture — the act or process of investing.
- isoceraunic — representing, having, or indicating equality in the frequency or intensity of thunderstorms: isoceraunic line; isoceraunic map.
- isochronous — isochronal.
- isokeraunic — isoceraunic.
- isoxsuprine — a sympathomimetic vasodilator, C 18 H 23 NO 3 , used in certain types of peripheral vascular disease.
- jaguarundis — Plural form of jaguarundi.
- john sutter — John Augustus, 1803–80, U.S. frontiersman: owner of Sutter's Mill.
- journalists — Plural form of journalist.
- juan carlos — King (Juan Carlos Alfonso Victor María de Borbón y Borbón) born 1938, Spanish monarch, born in Italy: king since 1975.
- juan flores — Juan José [hwahn haw-se] /ʰwɑn hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1800–64, Ecuadorian general and statesman: president 1830–35, 1839–45.
- juggernauts — Plural form of juggernaut.
- junior miss — a teenage girl, especially a subdebutante.
- jus naturae — law of nature; natural law
- kauri resin — a hard resin obtained from the bark of the kauri or found, sometimes in masses of as much as 100 pounds (45 kg), in the soil where the tree has grown: used chiefly in making varnish.
- keratoconus — a degenerative condition characterized by conical protrusion of the cornea and irregular astigmatism.
- kernel smut — a disease of sorghum and other grasses in which the grains are replaced by the black spores of a smut fungus, especially of the genera Tilletia and Ustilago.
- kernicterus — (medicine) Damage to the brain centres of infants caused by increased levels of unconjugated-indirect bilirubin which is free (not bound to albumin).
- kitesurfing — The sport or pastime of riding on a modified surfboard while holding on to a specially designed kite, using the wind for propulsion.
- klausenburg — German name of Cluj-Napoca.
- knackwursts — Plural form of knackwurst.