11-letter words containing u, n, r, s
- scoundrelly — having the character of a scoundrel; unscrupulous; villainous.
- screen dump — the act or process of printing or saving the graphical or textual data displayed on a computer screen.
- scrub nurse — a nurse specially trained to assist surgeons in the operating room and serving as part of the surgically clean medical team handling instruments during an operation.
- scrub round — to waive; avoid or ignore
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- send around — to put into circulation
- sensurround — a sound reproduction system used esp in cinemas, in which low-frequency output causes bodily sensations in the audience, resulting in a feeling of involvement in the film
- sentry duty — the duty of serving as a sentry
- septenarius — a verse consisting of seven feet, usually printed in two lines: used especially in Latin poems.
- sequestrant — any substance used to bring about sequestration, often by chelation. They are used in horticulture to counteract lime in the soil
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- skunk works — (usually lowercase). Also, skunk works, skunkworks [skuhngk-wurks] /ˈskʌŋkˌwɜrks/ (Show IPA). Slang. an often secret experimental laboratory or facility for producing innovative products, as in the computer or aerospace field.
- slop around — to spill or splash (liquid).
- slumberland — an imaginary land described to children as the place they enter during sleep.
- smouldering — burning slowly without flame, usually emitting smoke
- snap course — an academic course that can be passed with a minimum of effort.
- sneezeguard — a plastic or glass shield overhanging a salad bar, buffet, or the like to protect the food from contamination.
- snowsurfing — the use of a board without bindings to travel over snow
- soft ground — an etching ground usually mixed with tallow. Compare hard ground.
- sojournment — the state of sojourning
- soluble rna — a small RNA molecule, consisting of a strand of nucleotides folded into a clover-leaf shape, that picks up an unattached amino acid within the cell cytoplasm and conveys it to the ribosome for protein synthesis. Abbreviation: tRNA.