11-letter words containing u, r, m, s
- southernism — a pronunciation, expression, or behavioral trait characteristic of the U.S. South.
- sperm count — the number of spermatozoa in an amount of semen, used as an indication of a man's fertility
- sphaeridium — a round body found on sea urchins
- sporogonium — the sporangium of mosses and liverworts.
- square meal — a nourishing or filling meal: You'll feel better after you've had a square meal.
- square mile — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one mile on each side; 2.59 square kilometers. 2 , sq. mi. Abbreviation: mi.
- steamer rug — a coarse, heavy lap robe used by ship passengers sitting in deck chairs.
- stipuliform — shaped like a stipule.
- storm cloud — raincloud before storm
- storm house — a storm cellar.
- storm surge — an abnormal rise in the level of the sea along a coast caused by the onshore winds of a severe cyclone.
- stramineous — of or resembling straw.
- strike dumb — to amaze; astound; astonish
- stripe smut — a disease of grasses, characterized by stripes of black spores on the leaves, caused by any of several smut fungi of the genera Urocystis and Ustilago.
- strumectomy — excision of part or all of a goiter.
- stump ranch — (in British Columbia) an undeveloped ranch in the bush where animals graze among the stumps of felled trees
- stumpsucker — windsucker; cribber.
- sub-manager — a person who has control or direction of an institution, business, etc., or of a part, division, or phase of it.
- subacromial — the outward end of the spine of the scapula or shoulder blade.
- subchairman — a subordinate or substitute chairman.
- subcolumnar — almost or imperfectly columnar.
- subdelirium — a mild delirium with lucid intervals.
- subdermally — in, located, or placed in a subdermal manner
- subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
- submarginal — Biology. near the margin.
- submarining — a vessel that can be submerged and navigated under water, usually built for warfare and armed with torpedoes or guided missiles.
- submergence — to put or sink below the surface of water or any other enveloping medium.
- submergible — submersible.
- submersible — capable of being submersed.
- subminister — to supply
- subterminal — situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
- subumbrella — the concave undersurface of a coelenterate medusa, as a jellyfish.
- suburbanism — pertaining to, inhabiting, or being in a suburb or the suburbs of a city or town.
- suffer from — be ill with
- sugar maple — any of several maples having a sweet sap, especially Acer saccharum (the state tree of New York, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin), having a short trunk and long, curving branches, yielding a hard wood used for making furniture and being the chief source of maple sugar.
- sum assured — The sum assured is the amount payable on the occurrence of an event insured against under a benefit policy, such as the death of the insured.
- sum insured — The sum insured is the insurer's limit of liability under an insurance contract.
- summer camp — a camp, especially one for children during the summer, providing facilities for sleeping and eating, and usually for handicrafts, sports, etc.
- summer term — school trimester from spring to summer
- summer time — Chiefly British. daylight-saving time.
- summer-long — lasting all summer
- summercater — a person who lives on the Maine coast only in the summer.
- summerhouse — a simple, often rustic structure in a park or garden, intended to provide shade in the summer.
- summerising — to prepare (a house, car, etc.) so as to counteract the hot weather of summer: to summerize a house by adding air conditioning.
- summersault — to perform a somersault.
- superbomber — an aircraft used for dropping superbombs
- supercilium — the fillet above the cyma of a cornice.
- superfamily — a category of related families within an order or suborder.
- superimpose — to impose, place, or set over, above, or on something else.
- supermarket — a large retail market that sells food and other household goods and that is usually operated on a self-service basis.