11-letter words containing t, a, u, n, s
- 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.
- supernation — a large body of people, associated with a particular territory, that is sufficiently conscious of its unity to seek or to possess a government peculiarly its own: The president spoke to the nation about the new tax.
- supernature — the supernatural
- supertanker — a tanker with a deadweight capacity of over 75,000 tons.
- supplanting — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
- suppressant — a substance that suppresses an undesirable action or condition: an appetite suppressant.
- suppurating — to produce or discharge pus, as a wound; maturate.
- suppuration — the process of suppurating.
- suraddition — an additional title
- surfcasting — the act, technique, or sport of fishing by casting from the shoreline into the sea, usually using heavy-duty tackle.
- surrogation — a person appointed to act for another; deputy.
- surtarbrand — deposits of brown coal embedded in Iceland lava
- surveillant — exercising surveillance.
- susceptance — the imaginary component of admittance, equal to the quotient of the negative of the reactance divided by the sum of the squares of the reactance and resistance. Symbol: B.
- suscitation — the act of suscitating
- suspiration — a long, deep sigh.
- sustainable — capable of being supported or upheld, as by having its weight borne from below.
- sustainably — in a way that allows for continual use of a natural resource without depleting it or causing environmental damage: sustainably grown coffee.
- sustainment — to support, hold, or bear up from below; bear the weight of, as a structure.
- sustentator — a sustaining part or structure
- susurration — a soft murmur; whisper.
- syndactylus — a person having united or webbed fingers or toes.
- syngnathous — (of fish) having a tubular snout, e.g. pipefish, seahorse
- tactfulness — having or manifesting tact: a tactful person; a tactful reply.
- tankbusting — the practice of destroying tanks
- tanniferous — containing much tannin; yielding tannin.