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11-letter words containing u, n, r, s, h

  • nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
  • nudibranchs — Plural form of nudibranch.
  • nurse shark — any of several sharks of the family Orectolobidae, especially Ginglymostoma cirratum, occurring in shallow waters from Rhode Island to Brazil and the Gulf of California to Ecuador.
  • onslaughter — An onslaught.
  • ornithosaur — an extinct flying reptile
  • overnourish — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
  • oxyrhynchus — a fish found in the Nile, sometimes depicted on Egyptian sculptures and coins
  • pan crusher — A pan crusher is a crusher in which solids are broken by a wheel which is turning in a pan.
  • port hudson — a village in SE Louisiana, on the Mississippi, N of Baton Rouge: siege during the U.S. Civil War 1863.
  • prognathous — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
  • punch press — a power-driven machine used to cut, draw, or otherwise shape material, especially metal sheets, with dies, under pressure or by heavy blows.
  • push around — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
  • ramgunshoch — surly; bad-tempered; rude
  • ranch house — the house of the owner of a ranch, usually of one story and with a low-pitched roof.
  • rhamnaceous — belonging to the Rhamnaceae, the buckthorn family of plants.
  • rhizanthous — bearing flowers directly from the root.
  • rubbish bin — trash can
  • rush candle — a candle made from a dried, partly peeled rush that has been dipped in grease.
  • saurischian — any herbivorous or carnivorous dinosaur of the order Saurischia, having a three-pronged pelvis resembling that of a crocodile. Compare ornithischian.
  • 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.
  • shootaround — an informal match or practice session
  • shop around — compare prices
  • show around — guide round a new place
  • shower unit — fitted shower
  • shroud-line — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
  • shunt motor — A shunt motor is a direct current motor whose two windings are in parallel, with the same voltage across each.
  • song thrush — a common, European songbird, Turdus philomelos.
  • southernism — a pronunciation, expression, or behavioral trait characteristic of the U.S. South.
  • southernize — to make or become southern
  • southlander — a person from the south
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • strengthful — full of strength, strong
  • 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.
  • sub-saharan — of, relating to, or in Africa south of the Sahara Desert: a sub-Saharan country; sub-Saharan peoples.
  • subchairman — a subordinate or substitute chairman.
  • subchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
  • subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
  • suckerpunch — to strike (someone) with an unexpected blow.
  • súgán chair — a chair with a seat made from woven súgáns
  • sun-worship — the act of worshipping the sun as a deity
  • sundry shop — (in Malaysia) a shop, similar to a delicatessen, that sells predominantly Chinese foodstuffs
  • superharden — harden (def 6).
  • sure enough — free from doubt as to the reliability, character, action, etc., of something: to be sure of one's data.
  • sure-enough — real; genuine.
  • sure-handed — using the hands with skill and confidence; dexterous.
  • 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
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