11-letter words containing u, n, c, r
- 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.
- subdeaconry — the position or office of a subdeacon
- subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
- submergence — to put or sink below the surface of water or any other enveloping medium.
- subordinacy — a subordinate person or thing.
- subscribing — to pledge, as by signing an agreement, to give or pay (a sum of money) as a contribution, gift, or investment: He subscribed $6,000 for the new church.
- subtraction — an act or instance of subtracting.
- suckerpunch — to strike (someone) with an unexpected blow.
- súgán chair — a chair with a seat made from woven súgáns
- sugar candy — large crystals of sugar formed by suspending strings in a strong sugar solution that hardens on the strings, used chiefly for sweetening coffee
- sugar-candy — excessively sweet; saccharine: sugar-candy stories in family magazines.
- superagency — a very large agency, especially a large government agency that oversees smaller ones.
- superceding — supersede.
- supercenter — a very large shopping centre or complex
- superinduce — to bring in or induce as an added feature, circumstance, etc.; superimpose.
- superinfect — to infect further with an additional infection
- superjacent — lying above or upon something else.
- superscreen — a very large screen
- supersonics — the branch of science that deals with supersonic phenomena.
- surfcasting — the act, technique, or sport of fishing by casting from the shoreline into the sea, usually using heavy-duty tackle.
- surgicenter — a surgical facility, not based in a hospital, where minor surgery is performed on an outpatient basis.
- synchronous — occurring at the same time; coinciding in time; contemporaneous; simultaneous.
- taciturnity — Scots Law. the relinquishing of a legal right through an unduly long delay, as by the silence of the creditor.
- tautochrone — a curve upon which a moving object will reach a certain point at the same time through gravity from whichever point it starts
- tent circus — a circus performed in tents rather than in an arena.
- the centaur — the constellation Centaurus
- the country — the outlying area or area furthest from the finish of a sports ground or racecourse
- the curtain — the end of a scene of a play, opera, etc, marked by the fall or closing of the curtain
- thunderclap — a crash of thunder.
- toe-curling — If you describe something as toe-curling, you mean that it makes you feel very embarrassed.
- tone colour — the quality of a musical sound that is conditioned or distinguished by the upper partials or overtones present in it
- touchscreen — a touch-sensitive display screen on a computer or other electronic device: touching different portions of the screen with a finger or stylus will cause the device to take actions determined by a computer program.