11-letter words containing u, n, r, s
- ranch house — the house of the owner of a ranch, usually of one story and with a low-pitched roof.
- raster burn — 1. (Or terminal illness) Eyestrain brought on by too many hours of looking at low-resolution, poorly tuned, or glare-ridden monitors, especially graphics monitors. 2. The "burn-in" condition your CRT tends to get if you don't use a screen saver.
- 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.
- rediffusion — act of diffusing; state of being diffused.
- reinstitute — to set up; establish; organize: to institute a government.
- 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
- requisition — the act of requiring or demanding.
- restaurants — an establishment where meals are served to customers.
- restitution — reparation made by giving an equivalent or compensation for loss, damage, or injury caused; indemnification.
- resultantly — that results; following as a result or consequence.
- resultingly — as a result.
- resuscitant — a person or thing that resuscitates
- resuspended — to hang by attachment to something above: to suspend a chandelier from the ceiling.
- rhamnaceous — belonging to the Rhamnaceae, the buckthorn family of plants.
- rhizanthous — bearing flowers directly from the root.
- ricinus oil — castor oil.
- ring-porous — having annual rings marked by a conspicuous band of large pores in wood formed in spring.
- 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.
- round steak — a steak cut from directly above the hind leg of beef.
- routineness — a customary or regular course of procedure.
- rubbish bin — trash can
- ruby spinel — a deep red, transparent variety of spinel, used as a gem.
- ruminations — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
- run to seed — the fertilized, matured ovule of a flowering plant, containing an embryo or rudimentary plant.
- rus in urbe — the country in the town
- 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.
- saburration — the use of heated sand in healing
- sanctuarize — to give sanctuary to
- sand grouse — any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young.
- sand-struck — (of bricks) made with a mold lined with sand to permit freeing.
- sandculture — the hydroponic cultivation of plants in sand.
- sanguinaria — the bloodroot, Sanguinaria canadensis.
- santa maura — Italian name of Levkas.
- sarus crane — a large, gray crane, Grus antigone, of Asia, having a naked, red head.
- 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.
- sauerbraten — a pot roast of beef, marinated before cooking in a mixture of vinegar, sugar, and seasonings.
- 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.
- sauropsidan — relating to the Sauropsida or animals belonging to the Sauriodea group in Huxley's classification
- 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.