11-letter words containing t, o, n, u, s
- prosecution — Law. the institution and carrying on of legal proceedings against a person. the body of officials by whom such proceedings are instituted and carried on.
- protandrous — (of hermaphrodite or monoecious plants) maturing the anthers before the stigma
- protogynous — of or relating to a flower in which the shedding of pollen occurs after the stigma has stopped being receptive; having female sex organs maturing before the male.
- puget sound — an arm of the Pacific, in NW Washington.
- pumpstation — A pumpstation is a place with pumps and equipment for pumping fluids from one place to another.
- punctilious — extremely attentive to punctilios; strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions.
- pursuant to — legal: in accordance with
- push-button — operated by or as if by push buttons: push-button tuning.
- pustulation — the formation or breaking out of pustules.
- put down as — If you put someone or something down as a particular type of person or thing, you consider that they are that thing.
- put on airs — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- pythonesque — denoting a kind of humour that is absurd and unpredictable; zany; surreal
- quantasomes — any of numerous particles in a chloroplast, part of the thylakoid and functioning in photosynthesis.
- quaternions — Plural form of quaternion.
- questionary — a questionnaire.
- questioners — Plural form of questioner.
- questioning — indicating or implying a question: a questioning tone in her voice.
- questionist — a person who questions
- quonset hut — A Quonset hut is a military hut made of metal. The walls and roof form the shape of a semi-circle.
- reconstruct — to construct again; rebuild; make over.
- requisition — the act of requiring or demanding.
- restitution — reparation made by giving an equivalent or compensation for loss, damage, or injury caused; indemnification.
- rhizanthous — bearing flowers directly from the root.
- round steak — a steak cut from directly above the hind leg of beef.
- routineness — a customary or regular course of procedure.
- ruminations — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
- run to seed — the fertilized, matured ovule of a flowering plant, containing an embryo or rudimentary plant.
- rustication — Also called rustic work. Architecture. any of various forms of ashlar so dressed and tooled that the visible faces are raised above or otherwise contrasted with the horizontal and usually the vertical joints.
- saburration — the use of heated sand in healing
- sacculation — formed into or having a saccule, sac, or saclike dilation.
- saint louis — Saint, 1214?–70, king of France 1226–70.
- saint-cloud — a city in central Minnesota, on the Mississippi.
- saint-louis — a port in E Missouri, on the Mississippi.
- salting out — the addition of salt to a mixture to precipitate proteins, soaps, and other simple organic compounds.
- salting-out — Salting-out is the effect when adding a salt to a solvent containing an organic solute reduces the solubility of that solute.
- salutations — the act of saluting.
- sam houston — Sam(uel) 1793–1863, U.S. soldier and political leader: president of the Republic of Texas 1836–38 and 1841–44.
- sansculotte — (originally) a revolutionary of the poorer class
- second unit — an additional crew on a film production, usually used at a second location for filming crowd scenes, exteriors, and other shots that do not require the principal actors.
- sententious — abounding in pithy aphorisms or maxims: a sententious book.
- serrulation — serrulate condition or form.
- shine up to — to give forth or glow with light; shed or cast light.
- shootaround — an informal match or practice session
- shower unit — fitted shower
- shunt motor — A shunt motor is a direct current motor whose two windings are in parallel, with the same voltage across each.
- shunt-wound — noting a motor or a generator that has the field circuit connected in parallel with the armature winding.
- situational — manner of being situated; location or position with reference to environment: The situation of the house allowed for a beautiful view.
- ski touring — cross-country skiing.
- sleuthhound — a bloodhound.
- smoothhound — a smooth dogfish, especially Mustelus mustelus, inhabiting waters along the coast of Europe.