11-letter words containing u, n, c, r, s
- reassurance — to restore to assurance or confidence: His praise reassured me.
- recluseness — the fact or condition of being solitary or recluse; reclusion
- reconstruct — to construct again; rebuild; make over.
- reinsurance — the process or business of reinsuring.
- rejuvenesce — to make or become youthful or restored to vitality
- relicensure — the process of being licensed again to practise a particular profession
- resuscitant — a person or thing that resuscitates
- rhamnaceous — belonging to the Rhamnaceae, the buckthorn family of plants.
- ricinus oil — castor oil.
- rosicrucian — (in the 17th and 18th centuries) a person who belonged to a secret society laying claim to various forms of occult knowledge and power and professing esoteric principles of religion.
- rush candle — a candle made from a dried, partly peeled rush that has been dipped in grease.
- rusticating — to go to the country.
- 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.
- saarbrucken — a state in W Germany, in the Saar River valley. 991 sq. mi. (2569 sq. km). Capital: Saarbrücken.
- sanctuarize — to give sanctuary to
- sand-struck — (of bricks) made with a mold lined with sand to permit freeing.
- sandculture — the hydroponic cultivation of plants in sand.
- sarus crane — a large, gray crane, Grus antigone, of Asia, having a naked, red head.
- sauk centre — a town in central Minnesota: model for town in Sinclair Lewis's novel Main Street.
- saurischian — any herbivorous or carnivorous dinosaur of the order Saurischia, having a three-pronged pelvis resembling that of a crocodile. Compare ornithischian.
- scatter-gun — a shotgun
- schrödinbug — (jargon, programming) /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
- schweinfurt — a city in N Bavaria, in S central Germany, on the Main River.
- scoundrelly — having the character of a scoundrel; unscrupulous; villainous.
- screen dump — the act or process of printing or saving the graphical or textual data displayed on a computer screen.
- scrub nurse — a nurse specially trained to assist surgeons in the operating room and serving as part of the surgically clean medical team handling instruments during an operation.
- scrub round — to waive; avoid or ignore
- scruffiness — the state of being unkempt or shabby
- scrutinised — to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
- scrutinized — to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
- scrutinizer — to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
- sculpturing — the act of sculpturing or carving
- scuppernong — a silvery amber-green variety of muscadine grape.
- secure unit — A secure unit is a building or part of a building where dangerous prisoners or violent psychiatric patients are kept.
- sicknursing — the nursing of the sick
- skin colour — the colour of a person's skin, ie Black, White, etc
- snap course — an academic course that can be passed with a minimum of effort.
- sound truck — a truck carrying a loudspeaker from which speeches, music, etc., are broadcast, as for advertising, campaigning, or the like.
- sperm count — the number of spermatozoa in an amount of semen, used as an indication of a man's fertility
- spruce pine — a tall coniferous tree, Pinus glabra, of the southeastern U.S., having smooth, gray bark and needles in bundles of two.
- square inch — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one inch on each side; 6.452 square centimeters. 2 , sq. in. Abbreviation: in.
- stonecutter — a person who cuts or carves stone.
- stump ranch — (in British Columbia) an undeveloped ranch in the bush where animals graze among the stumps of felled trees
- sub-chronic — constant; habitual; inveterate: a chronic liar.
- subcardinal — (of veins) next to the cardinal veins
- subchairman — a subordinate or substitute chairman.
- subchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
- subcolumnar — almost or imperfectly columnar.
- 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.