11-letter words containing t, i, a, n, o, u
- speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
- spiculation — formation into spicules.
- sporulation — to produce spores.
- squassation — a form of strappado in which the victim, with arms bound behind and feet heavily weighted, was jerked up and down at the end of a rope passed under the arms.
- staminodium — a sterile or abortive stamen.
- stimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- stipulation — a condition, demand, or promise in an agreement or contract.
- stramineous — of or resembling straw.
- subarration — an ancient way of marrying by giving a ring or gift
- subaudition — an act or instance of understanding or mentally supplying something not expressed.
- subdominant — Music. the fourth tone of a diatonic scale, next below the dominant.
- subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- subitaneous — sudden
- subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
- sublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- subluxation — a partial dislocation, as of a joint; sprain.
- subnational — of, relating to, or maintained by a nation as an organized whole or independent political unit: national affairs.
- subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- 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.
- subtraction — an act or instance of subtracting.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- suppuration — the process of suppurating.
- suraddition — an additional title
- surrogation — a person appointed to act for another; deputy.
- suscitation — the act of suscitating
- suspiration — a long, deep sigh.
- susurration — a soft murmur; whisper.
- tanniferous — containing much tannin; yielding tannin.
- tautophonic — having or repeating the same sound
- tenaciously — holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold (often followed by of): a tenacious grip on my arm; tenacious of old habits.
- teotihuacan — the ruins of an ancient Mesoamerican city in central Mexico, near Mexico City, that flourished a.d. c200–c750 and is the site of the pyramids of the Sun and Moon and of many temples, palaces, and dwellings.
- thingumabob — thingamajig.
- think aloud — If you think aloud, you express your thoughts as they occur to you, rather than thinking first and then speaking.
- thoreauvian — Henry David, 1817–62, U.S. naturalist and author.
- thumb piano — any of various African boxlike musical instruments, such as the kalimba or mbira, having tuned strips of metal or wood that vibrate when played with the thumbs.
- tonal music — music that uses the diatonic system
- touring car — an open automobile designed for five or more passengers.
- trade union — a labor union of craftspeople or workers in related crafts, as distinguished from general workers or a union including all workers in an industry.
- transfusion — the act or process of transfusing.
- tribulation — grievous trouble; severe trial or suffering.
- trituration — the act of triturating.
- tulipomania — (in 17th-century Holland) a widespread obsession with tulips, especially of highly prized varieties, as those of a streaked, variegated, or unusual color.
- tumefaction — an act of making or becoming swollen or tumid.