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11-letter words containing u, r, s, a

  • stagestruck — obsessed with the desire to become an actor or actress.
  • staggerbush — an ericaceous deciduous shrub, Lyonia mariana, of E North America, having white or pinkish flowers: it is poisonous to livestock
  • stake truck — a truck or trailer with a stake body, as for hauling farm animals or feed bags.
  • stan laurel — Stan (Arthur Stanley Jefferson) 1890–1965, U.S. motion-picture actor and comedian, born in England.
  • stand guard — keep watch
  • star-struck — captivated by famous people or by fame itself.
  • status zero — the condition of young people who are out of school but not in further education or training, permanently or regularly out of work, and dropping out of the mainstream of society
  • statutorily — of, relating to, or of the nature of a statute.
  • stauroscope — an optical instrument for studying the crystal structure of minerals under polarized light
  • steamer rug — a coarse, heavy lap robe used by ship passengers sitting in deck chairs.
  • stegosaurus — any of a suborder (Stegosauria) of large ornithischian dinosaurs of the Upper Jurassic having a small head and heavy bony plates with sharp spikes down the backbone
  • sternutator — a chemical agent causing nose irritation, coughing, etc.
  • stirrup jar — pseudamphora.
  • stock guard — a barrier for keeping cattle and other animals off the tracks or right of way.
  • straight up — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
  • straight-up — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
  • stramineous — of or resembling straw.
  • strangulate — Pathology, Surgery. to compress or constrict (a duct, intestine, vessel, etc.) so as to prevent circulation or suppress function.
  • stratopause — the boundary or transition layer between the stratosphere and mesosphere.
  • stump ranch — (in British Columbia) an undeveloped ranch in the bush where animals graze among the stumps of felled trees
  • sub-article — a written composition in prose, usually nonfiction, on a specific topic, forming an independent part of a book or other publication, as a newspaper or magazine.
  • sub-charter — a document, issued by a sovereign or state, outlining the conditions under which a corporation, colony, city, or other corporate body is organized, and defining its rights and privileges.
  • sub-manager — a person who has control or direction of an institution, business, etc., or of a part, division, or phase of it.
  • sub-saharan — of, relating to, or in Africa south of the Sahara Desert: a sub-Saharan country; sub-Saharan peoples.
  • sub-surface — below the surface, especially of a body of water.
  • subacromial — the outward end of the spine of the scapula or shoulder blade.
  • subaerially — in a subaerial manner
  • subarboreal — living or thriving under trees
  • subarration — an ancient way of marrying by giving a ring or gift
  • subaxillary — situated or placed beneath an axil.
  • subcapsular — of, in, or like a capsule.
  • subcardinal — (of veins) next to the cardinal veins
  • subcategory — a subordinate category or a division of a category.
  • subcellular — contained within a cell.
  • subchairman — a subordinate or substitute chairman.
  • subchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
  • subcolumnar — almost or imperfectly columnar.
  • subcontract — a contract by which one agrees to render services or to provide materials necessary for the performance of another contract.
  • subcontrary — one of two propositions that can both be true but cannot both be false.
  • subcortical — situated beneath the cortex.
  • subcritical — Physics. pertaining to a state, value, or quantity that is less than critical, especially to a mass of radioactive material.
  • subcurative — of a dosage which is not strong enough to have a curing effect
  • subdeaconry — the position or office of a subdeacon
  • subdermally — in, located, or placed in a subdermal manner
  • subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
  • subglobular — globe-shaped; spherical.
  • subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
  • subinterval — an interval that is a subset of a given interval.
  • subirrigate — to irrigate beneath the surface of the ground, as with water passing through a system of underground porous pipes or transmitted through the subsoil from ditches, etc.
  • subliteracy — below average literacy
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