11-letter words containing t, o, r, s, i
- stringboard — a board or facing covering the ends of the steps in a staircase.
- strip joint — a nightclub or other establishment featuring striptease performances.
- strip poker — a game of poker in which the losers in a hand remove an article of clothing.
- stromateoid — resembling or related to the Stromateidae.
- strombolian — relating to or denoting a type of volcanic eruption characterized by repeated fountaining or jetting of fluid lava into the air
- strong side — the side of the offensive line where the tight end is positioned, thereby the side having the greater number of players.
- strong suit — Bridge. a long suit that contains high cards.
- strongpoint — a fortified defensive position; stronghold.
- strongyloid — of or relating to a strongyle
- styliferous — having a style (part of the female organ of a plant)
- subarration — an ancient way of marrying by giving a ring or gift
- subcortical — situated beneath the cortex.
- subdirector — an assistant or secondary director
- subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- sublittoral — of or relating to the biogeographic region of the ocean bottom between the littoral and bathyal zones, from the low water line to the edge of the continental shelf, or to a depth of approximately 660 feet (200 meters).
- 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.
- subrational — less than or almost rational.
- subrogation — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
- subtraction — an act or instance of subtracting.
- subtropical — bordering on the tropics; nearly tropical.
- subvitreous — of the nature of or resembling glass, as in transparency, brittleness, hardness, glossiness, etc.: vitreous china.
- sulfuration — to combine, treat, or impregnate with sulfur, the fumes of burning sulfur, etc.
- superegoist — an exceptionally selfish or self-centred person; someone who is very self-important
- superiority — the quality or condition of being superior.
- 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.
- superpolite — extremely polite
- superprofit — above-average profits gained through enterprise
- suppository — a solid, conical mass of medicinal substance that melts upon insertion into the rectum or vagina.
- suppuration — the process of suppurating.
- suraddition — an additional title
- surmounting — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
- surrogation — a person appointed to act for another; deputy.
- suspiration — a long, deep sigh.
- susurration — a soft murmur; whisper.
- swing voter — to cause to move to and fro, sway, or oscillate, as something suspended from above: to swing one's arms in walking.
- swingometer — a device used in television broadcasting during a general election to indicate the swing of votes from one political party to another
- switch over — If you switch over when you are watching television, you change to another channel.
- switchboard — a structural unit on which are mounted switches and instruments necessary to complete telephone circuits manually.
- sword fight — duel with long-bladed weapons
- sword-point — the point of a sword
- syringotomy — surgical removal of a fistula
- taboparesis — the occurrence of two conditions (general paresis and tabes dorsalis) at the same time
- tanniferous — containing much tannin; yielding tannin.
- tautomerism — the ability of certain organic compounds to react in isomeric structures that differ from each other in the position of a hydrogen atom and a double bond.
- telesterion — (in ancient Greece) a building in which religious mysteries were celebrated.
- temerarious — reckless; rash.
- tensiometer — an instrument for measuring longitudinal stress in wires, structural beams, etc.
- tensiometry — the study of the measurement of tension
- terpsichore — Classical Mythology. the Muse of dancing and choral song.