11-letter words containing ni
- snickometer — a device, which uses sound waves recorded by the stump microphone, employed by TV commentators to determine whether or not a batsman has made contact with the ball
- sniffer dog — a dog trained to find illegal drugs or explosives by smell.
- sniperscope — a snooperscope designed for attaching to a rifle or carbine.
- snitch line — a direct telephone or other communications link set up to allow people to report neighbours, colleagues, etc suspected of wrongdoing
- social unit — a person or a group of persons, as a family, functioning as a unit in society.
- socinianism — the teachings of Faustus Socinus (1539-1604), It. rationalistic religious reformer, denying the Trinity, the divinity of Christ, etc., and holding that salvation is attained solely by practicing the virtues exemplified by Christ
- sock lining — a thin piece of material, as leather, that is laid on top of the insole of a shoe, boot, or other footwear.
- solutionist — a problem-solver
- somatogenic — developing from somatic cells.
- somatotonia — a personality type characterized by assertiveness and energy: said to be correlated with a mesomorph body type
- somatotonic — a person who has a somatotonic personality
- somniferous — bringing or inducing sleep, as drugs or influences.
- southernism — a pronunciation, expression, or behavioral trait characteristic of the U.S. South.
- southernize — to make or become southern
- spaghettini — pasta in the form of long thin strings
- spallanzani — Lazzaro [lahd-dzah-raw] /ˈlɑd dzɑ rɔ/ (Show IPA), 1729–99, Italian biologist.
- spanish fir — a species of fir native to S Spain and N Morocco, Abies pinsapo
- spanish fly — Also called cantharides. a preparation of powdered blister beetles, especially the Spanish fly, used medicinally as a counterirritant, diuretic, and aphrodisiac.
- spiniferous — (esp of plants) bearing spines or thorns
- sporogonium — the sporangium of mosses and liverworts.
- stanislaw i — (Stanislaw Leszczynski) Stanislaus I.
- stanislawow — Polish name of Ivano-Frankovsk.
- staphylinid — rove beetle.
- steak knife — a sharp dinner knife the blade of which is made of steel and usually serrated, used in cutting meat.
- sub-chronic — constant; habitual; inveterate: a chronic liar.
- subclinical — pertaining to an early stage of a disease; having no noticeable clinical symptoms.
- subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
- submarining — a vessel that can be submerged and navigated under water, usually built for warfare and armed with torpedoes or guided missiles.
- subminister — to supply
- submunition — a weapon forming part of a larger warhead and released from it at a target
- suburbanism — pertaining to, inhabiting, or being in a suburb or the suburbs of a city or town.
- suburbanite — a person who lives in a suburb of a city or large town.
- suburbanize — to give suburban characteristics to: to suburbanize a rural area.
- supersonics — the branch of science that deals with supersonic phenomena.
- symphonious — harmonious; in harmonious agreement or accord.
- synchronise — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.
- synchronism — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
- synchronize — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.
- taciturnity — Scots Law. the relinquishing of a legal right through an unduly long delay, as by the silence of the creditor.
- tannic acid — Chemistry. any of a group of astringent vegetable principles or compounds, chiefly complex glucosides of catechol and pyrogallol, as the reddish compound that gives the tanning properties to oak bark or the whitish compound that occurs in large quantities in nutgalls (common tannin, tannic acid)
- tanniferous — containing much tannin; yielding tannin.
- tanning bed — a boxlike bed having a hinged cover and equipped with sunlamps to produce a suntan.
- tautophonic — having or repeating the same sound
- technically — belonging or pertaining to an art, science, or the like: technical skill.
- technicolor — (often lowercase) flamboyant or lurid, as in color, meaning, or detail.
- technomania — an obsessional enthusiasm for technology
- telephoning — an apparatus, system, or process for transmission of sound or speech to a distant point, especially by an electric device.
- telephonist — a telephone switchboard operator.
- tenebrionid — darkling beetle.
- tennis ball — a hollow ball used in tennis, made of rubber with a fuzzy covering of woven Dacron, nylon, or wool.