11-letter words containing u, n, r, i, s, e
- strike fund — an amount of money reserved by a union to make payments to striking works should a strike occur
- strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
- stunt flier — someone who performs stunts in an aeroplane, such as special turns, etc, in the air
- subfreezing — below the freezing point.
- subinterval — an interval that is a subset of a given interval.
- subminister — to supply
- subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- subservient — serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.
- subterminal — situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
- suburbanite — a person who lives in a suburb of a city or large town.
- suburbanize — to give suburban characteristics to: to suburbanize a rural area.
- sui generis — of his, her, its, or their own kind; unique.
- sum insured — The sum insured is the insurer's limit of liability under an insurance contract.
- summerising — to prepare (a house, car, etc.) so as to counteract the hot weather of summer: to summerize a house by adding air conditioning.
- sun bittern — a graceful South American wading bird, Eurypyga helias, related to the cranes and rails, having variegated plumage.
- sun prairie — a town in S Wisconsin.
- sunk relief — cavo-relievo.
- superceding — supersede.
- superdainty — very dainty
- superinduce — to bring in or induce as an added feature, circumstance, etc.; superimpose.
- superinfect — to infect further with an additional infection
- superintend — to oversee and direct (work, processes, etc.).
- 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.
- superrefine — to refine to an advanced degree
- superseding — to replace in power, authority, effectiveness, acceptance, use, etc., as by another person or thing.
- supersinger — an exceptional singer
- supersonics — the branch of science that deals with supersonic phenomena.
- superstring — any supersymmetric string theory in which each type of elementary particle is treated as a vibration of a single fundamental string (superstring) at a particular frequency.
- supervision — the act or function of supervising; superintendence.
- suppressing — to put an end to the activities of (a person, body of persons, etc.): to suppress the Communist and certain left-leaning parties.
- suppression — the act of suppressing.
- surgeonfish — any tropical, coral-reef fish of the family Acanthuridae, with one or more sharp spines near the base of the tail fin.
- surgeonship — the position or responsibility of a surgeon
- surgicenter — a surgical facility, not based in a hospital, where minor surgery is performed on an outpatient basis.
- surveillant — exercising surveillance.
- surveilling — to place under surveillance.
- tanniferous — containing much tannin; yielding tannin.
- tea infuser — mesh ball for straining tea leaves
- tent circus — a circus performed in tents rather than in an arena.
- terrigenous — produced by the earth.
- torpedinous — of, relating to, or resembling a torpedo
- transfigure — to change in outward form or appearance; transform.
- turing test — (artificial intelligence) A criterion proposed by Alan Turing in 1950 for deciding whether a computer is intelligent. Turing called it "the Imitation Game" and offered it as a replacement for the question, "Can machines think?" A human holds a written conversation on any topic with an unseen correspondent (nowadays it might be by electronic mail or chat). If the human believes he is talking to another human when he is really talking to a computer then the computer has passed the Turing test and is deemed to be intelligent. Turing predicted that within 50 years (by the year 2000) technological progress would produce computing machines with a capacity of 10**9 bits, and that with such machinery, a computer program would be able to fool the average questioner for 5 minutes about 70% of the time. The Loebner Prize is a competition to find a computer program which can pass an unrestricted Turing test. See also AI-complete.
- un-abrasive — any material or substance used for grinding, polishing, etc., as emery, pumice, or sandpaper.
- unaspirated — Phonetics. to articulate (a speech sound, especially a stop) so as to produce an audible puff of breath, as with the first t of total, the second t being unaspirated. to articulate (the beginning of a word or syllable) with an h -sound, as in which, pronounced (hwich), or hitch as opposed to witch or itch.
- unassertive — confidently aggressive or self-assured; positive: aggressive; dogmatic: He is too assertive as a salesman.
- unburnished — to polish (a surface) by friction.
- uncherished — to hold or treat as dear; feel love for: to cherish one's native land.
- unclarities — clearness or lucidity as to perception or understanding; freedom from indistinctness or ambiguity.
- under siege — being surrounded and attacked