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11-letter words containing u, n, r, i

  • sanguinaria — the bloodroot, Sanguinaria canadensis.
  • saturnalian — (sometimes used with a plural verb) the festival of Saturn, celebrated in December in ancient Rome as a time of unrestrained merrymaking.
  • saturninity — sluggish in temperament; gloomy; taciturn.
  • saurischian — any herbivorous or carnivorous dinosaur of the order Saurischia, having a three-pronged pelvis resembling that of a crocodile. Compare ornithischian.
  • sauropsidan — relating to the Sauropsida or animals belonging to the Sauriodea group in Huxley's classification
  • 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.
  • 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
  • secure unit — A secure unit is a building or part of a building where dangerous prisoners or violent psychiatric patients are kept.
  • seigneurial — a lord, especially a feudal lord.
  • self-insure — to subject (one's property or interests) to self-insurance.
  • self-ruling — of or relating to self-rule
  • semidiurnal — pertaining to, consisting of, or accomplished in half a day.
  • seminatural — partly natural and partly cultivated
  • sempiternum — a type of durable woollen fabric popular in the 17th century
  • septenarius — a verse consisting of seven feet, usually printed in two lines: used especially in Latin poems.
  • seriousness — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
  • serpiginous — (formerly) a creeping or spreading skin disease, as ringworm.
  • serrulation — serrulate condition or form.
  • sertularian — a type of hydroid that forms stiff, feathery colonies in which the cups holding the zooids are sessile.
  • shower unit — fitted shower
  • shroud-line — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
  • sicknursing — the nursing of the sick
  • singularism — any philosophy that explains phenomena from a single principle
  • singularist — someone who advocates singularism
  • singularity — the state, fact, or quality of being singular.
  • singularize — to make singular.
  • ski touring — cross-country skiing.
  • skin colour — the colour of a person's skin, ie Black, White, etc
  • skunk river — a river in central Iowa, flowing SE to the Mississippi River. 264 miles (425 km) long.
  • smouldering — burning slowly without flame, usually emitting smoke
  • snowsurfing — the use of a board without bindings to travel over snow
  • somniferous — bringing or inducing sleep, as drugs or influences.
  • soul-baring — confessing intimate thoughts
  • sound mixer — sb who records film sound
  • southernism — a pronunciation, expression, or behavioral trait characteristic of the U.S. South.
  • southernize — to make or become southern
  • spinel ruby — ruby spinel.
  • spiniferous — (esp of plants) bearing spines or thorns
  • spitzenburg — any of several red or yellow varieties of apple that ripen in the autumn.
  • sporogonium — the sporangium of mosses and liverworts.
  • sporulation — to produce spores.
  • springhouse — a small storehouse built over a spring or part of a brook, for keeping such foods as meat and dairy products cool and fresh.
  • 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.
  • squirreling — any of numerous arboreal, bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Sciurus, of the family Sciuridae.
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