11-letter words starting with su
- succulently — full of juice; juicy.
- sucker bait — an enticement calculated to lure a person into a scheme in which he or she may be victimized.
- sucker list — a list of names and addresses of persons considered by a business, charity organization, etc., to be likely purchasers or donors.
- suckerpunch — to strike (someone) with an unexpected blow.
- sucket fork — a utensil for sweetmeats of the 16th, 17th, and early 18th centuries, having fork tines at one end and a spoon bowl at the other end of a common stem.
- sucking-pig — a pig that is not yet weaned
- suction cup — a cup-shaped object of rubber, glass, plastic, etc., which, by producing a partial vacuum, can be made to adhere to or draw something to a surface.
- sudan grass — a sorghum, Sorghum sudanense, introduced into the U.S. from Africa, grown for hay and pasture.
- sudetenland — a mountainous region in the N Czech Republic, including the Sudeten and the Erzgebirge: annexed by Germany 1938; returned to Czechoslovakia 1945.
- suffer from — be ill with
- sufficiency — the state or fact of being sufficient; adequacy.
- suffixation — Grammar. an affix that follows the element to which it is added, as -ly in kindly.
- suffocation — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- suffragette — a woman advocate of female suffrage.
- suffumigate — to fumigate from below; apply fumes or smoke to.
- súgán chair — a chair with a seat made from woven súgáns
- sugar apple — sweetsop.
- sugar basin — sugar bowl.
- sugar candy — large crystals of sugar formed by suspending strings in a strong sugar solution that hardens on the strings, used chiefly for sweetening coffee
- sugar daddy — a wealthy, middle-aged man who spends freely on a young woman in return for her companionship or intimacy.
- sugar grove — sugarbush (def 2).
- 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.
- sugar spoon — a small spoon for serving granulated sugar, resembling but having a wider bowl than a teaspoon.
- sugar tongs — small tongs used for serving cubed sugar.
- sugar-candy — excessively sweet; saccharine: sugar-candy stories in family magazines.
- sugar-cured — (especially of ham or bacon) cured in a mixture of sugar, salt, and sodium nitrate or sodium nitrite.
- sugarcoated — to cover with sugar: to sugarcoat a pill.
- suggestible — subject to or easily influenced by suggestion.
- suggestions — the act of suggesting.
- sui generis — of his, her, its, or their own kind; unique.
- suicidology — the study of the causes and prevention of suicide.
- suisun city — a town in central California.
- suitability — such as to suit; appropriate; fitting; becoming.
- sukarnapura — Jayapura
- sulfide dye — any of the class of dyes produced by heating an organic compound, as an indophenol, with sulfur or sodium polysulfide, used chiefly in dyeing cotton.
- sulfo group — the univalent group SO 3 H–, derived from sulfuric acid.
- sulfonamide — sulfa drug.
- sulfonation — the process of attaching the sulfonic acid group, –SO 3 H, directly to carbon in an organic compound.
- sulfuration — to combine, treat, or impregnate with sulfur, the fumes of burning sulfur, etc.
- sulphhydryl — the univalent radical group -SH
- sulphurator — an apparatus used in treating anything with sulphur or sulphur fumes, such as in fumigating
- sulphureous — of the yellow colour of sulphur
- sulphurwort — an umbelliferous perennial plant, Peucedanum officinale, of which the roots produce a smell like that of sulphur
- 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.
- summability — the quality of being summable
- 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