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11-letter words containing t, o, u, r

  • southwester — a wind, gale, or storm from the southwest.
  • speculatory — a place suitable for observation
  • sperm count — the number of spermatozoa in an amount of semen, used as an indication of a man's fertility
  • spice route — an ancient trade route followed by merchants, importers and exporters trading in exotic spices such as cloves and cinnamon
  • spore fruit — a spore-bearing structure, as an ascoscarp; sporocarp.
  • sporulation — to produce spores.
  • sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation
  • spot survey — a survey taken immediately and at random
  • square foot — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one foot on each side; 0.0929 square meters. 2 , sq. ft. Abbreviation: ft.
  • square knot — a common knot in which the ends come out alongside of the standing parts.
  • square root — a quantity of which a given quantity is the square: The quantities +6 and −6 are square roots of 36 since (+6)×(+6)=36 and (−6)×(−6)=36.
  • square-toed — with the toes squared off
  • square-toes — an old-fashioned or strait-laced person.
  • status zero — the condition of young people who are out of school but not in further education or training, permanently or regularly out of work, and dropping out of the mainstream of society
  • statutorily — of, relating to, or of the nature of a statute.
  • stauroscope — an optical instrument for studying the crystal structure of minerals under polarized light
  • stegosaurus — any of a suborder (Stegosauria) of large ornithischian dinosaurs of the Upper Jurassic having a small head and heavy bony plates with sharp spikes down the backbone
  • stentorious — stentorian.
  • sternutator — a chemical agent causing nose irritation, coughing, etc.
  • stipuliform — shaped like a stipule.
  • stock guard — a barrier for keeping cattle and other animals off the tracks or right of way.
  • stock-route — a public trail having right of way across private properties and over which cattle and sheep may be herded to grazing grounds or to market.
  • stone fruit — a fruit with a stone or hard endocarp, as a peach or plum; drupe.
  • stonecutter — a person who cuts or carves stone.
  • stoneground — (of wheat or other grain) ground between millstones, especially those made of burstone, so as to retain the whole of the grain and preserve nutritional content.
  • stop chorus — a solo during which the rhythm section plays only the first beat of each phrase of music
  • storm cloud — raincloud before storm
  • storm house — a storm cellar.
  • storm surge — an abnormal rise in the level of the sea along a coast caused by the onshore winds of a severe cyclone.
  • stourbridge — an industrial town in W central England, in Dudley unitary authority, West Midlands. Pop: 55 480 (2001)
  • stramineous — of or resembling straw.
  • stratopause — the boundary or transition layer between the stratosphere and mesosphere.
  • strenuosity — characterized by vigorous exertion, as action, efforts, life, etc.: a strenuous afternoon of hunting.
  • strenuously — characterized by vigorous exertion, as action, efforts, life, etc.: a strenuous afternoon of hunting.
  • stretch out — lie down, sprawl
  • strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
  • strong suit — Bridge. a long suit that contains high cards.
  • struggle on — If you struggle on, you continue doing something rather than stopping, even though it is difficult.
  • strumectomy — excision of part or all of a goiter.
  • study group — an informal gathering of people who convene regularly to exchange ideas and information on a specific subject.
  • styliferous — having a style (part of the female organ of a plant)
  • sub-product — a thing produced by labor: products of farm and factory; the product of his thought.
  • sub-project — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
  • subarration — an ancient way of marrying by giving a ring or gift
  • subcategory — a subordinate category or a division of a category.
  • subcontract — a contract by which one agrees to render services or to provide materials necessary for the performance of another contract.
  • subcontrary — one of two propositions that can both be true but cannot both be false.
  • 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.
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