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11-letter words containing u, s, n, e

  • self-insure — to subject (one's property or interests) to self-insurance.
  • self-ruling — of or relating to self-rule
  • semi-annual — occurring, done, or published every half year or twice a year; semiyearly.
  • semidiurnal — pertaining to, consisting of, or accomplished in half a day.
  • seminatural — partly natural and partly cultivated
  • semiquinone — any of the class of free radicals formed as intermediates in the oxidation of a hydroquinone to a quinone.
  • sempiternum — a type of durable woollen fabric popular in the 17th century
  • send around — to put into circulation
  • senectitude — the last stage of life; old age.
  • sense datum — Also called sensum. Psychology. the basic unit of an experience resulting from the stimulation of a sense organ; a stimulus or an object of perception or sensation.
  • 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
  • sententious — abounding in pithy aphorisms or maxims: a sententious book.
  • 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.
  • sesquiplane — a biplane having one wing with not more than half the surface area of the other wing.
  • shine up to — to give forth or glow with light; shed or cast light.
  • shower unit — fitted shower
  • shroud-line — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
  • sibuyan sea — a sea in the Philippines S of Luzon and E of Mindanao: site of U.S.-Japan naval battle 1944.
  • single-hung — (of a window) having two sashes, only one of which is movable.
  • singularize — to make singular.
  • singulative — a grammatical form or construction that expresses a singular entity or indicates that an individual is singled out from a group, especially as opposed to a collective noun, as snowflake as opposed to snow.
  • skunk river — a river in central Iowa, flowing SE to the Mississippi River. 264 miles (425 km) long.
  • sleuthhound — a bloodhound.
  • slumberland — an imaginary land described to children as the place they enter during sleep.
  • smouldering — burning slowly without flame, usually emitting smoke
  • snake juice — any strong alcoholic drink, esp when home-made
  • snap course — an academic course that can be passed with a minimum of effort.
  • sneak up on — If someone sneaks up on you, they try and approach you without being seen or heard, perhaps to surprise you or do you harm.
  • sneezeguard — a plastic or glass shield overhanging a salad bar, buffet, or the like to protect the food from contamination.
  • snuff movie — Slang. a pornographic film that shows an actual murder of one of the performers, as at the end of a sadistic act.
  • snuff-movie — Slang. a pornographic film that shows an actual murder of one of the performers, as at the end of a sadistic act.
  • sojournment — the state of sojourning
  • solanaceous — belonging to the Solanaceae, the nightshade family of plants.
  • 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.
  • somniferous — bringing or inducing sleep, as drugs or influences.
  • sound check — an on-the-spot rehearsal by a band before a gig to enable the sound engineer to set up the mixer
  • sound mixer — sb who records film sound
  • sound stage — a large, soundproof studio used for filming motion pictures.
  • sound-alike — a person or thing that resembles another in sound
  • soup tureen — a large bowl with a lid, from which soup is served at the table
  • sour orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
  • south devon — a breed of large red cattle originally from South Devon
  • south ogden — a town in N Utah.
  • south yemen — Yemen (def 3).
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