11-letter words starting with su
- 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.
- sumptuously — entailing great expense, as from choice materials, fine work, etc.; costly: a sumptuous residence.
- sun bittern — a graceful South American wading bird, Eurypyga helias, related to the cranes and rails, having variegated plumage.
- sun prairie — a town in S Wisconsin.
- sun yat-sen — 1866–1925, Chinese political and revolutionary leader.
- sun-worship — the act of worshipping the sun as a deity
- sunday baby — an illegitimate child.
- sunday best — Sunday clothes.
- sunday week — a week (counting backward or forward) from Sunday (or Monday, Tuesday, etc.)
- sundry shop — (in Malaysia) a shop, similar to a delicatessen, that sells predominantly Chinese foodstuffs
- sunk relief — cavo-relievo.
- super-duper — extremely good, powerful, large, etc.; very super; marvelous or colossal.
- super-earth — a hypothetical planet larger than the earth but smaller than the four gas giants Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus, thought to be orbiting the sun beyond the Kuiper belt but nearer than the Oort cloud: its existence is suggested by two known dwarf planets in a similar orbit
- super-sized — having size as specified (often used in combination): middle-sized.
- super-slick — very well-executed or presented
- super-title — (especially in opera production) a translation of a segment of the libretto or other text or sometimes a brief summary of the plot projected onto a screen above the stage during a performance.
- superabound — to abound beyond something else.
- superactive — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
- superagency — a very large agency, especially a large government agency that oversees smaller ones.
- superaltern — a universal proposition that is the basis for the immediate inference of a corresponding particular proposition.
- superbazaar — (in India) a large department store or supermarket, esp one set up as a cooperative store by the government
- superbomber — an aircraft used for dropping superbombs
- superbright — exceptionally bright
- superceding — supersede.
- supercenter — a very large shopping centre or complex
- supercharge — to charge with an abundant or excessive amount, as of energy, emotion, or tension.
- supercherie — deception, trickery or an instance thereof
- superchurch — a church housed in an extremely large structure and containing elaborate facilities.
- supercilium — the fillet above the cyma of a cornice.
- superdainty — very dainty
- superdeluxe — very luxurious, more than deluxe
- superegoist — an exceptionally selfish or self-centred person; someone who is very self-important
- superfamily — a category of related families within an order or suborder.
- superfatted — (of soap) containing excess fat that has not been converted into soap by saponification
- superficial — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
- superficies — the surface, outer face, or outside of a thing.
- superfluity — the state of being superfluous.
- superfluous — being more than is sufficient or required; excessive.
- supergalaxy — a system of galaxies.
- supergrowth — exceptional growth; very rapid growth
- superharden — harden (def 6).
- superheated — If a liquid is superheated, it has been heated to a temperature that is higher than its boiling point without being allowed to boil.
- superheroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- superimpose — to impose, place, or set over, above, or on something else.
- superinduce — to bring in or induce as an added feature, circumstance, etc.; superimpose.
- superinfect — to infect further with an additional infection
- superintend — to oversee and direct (work, processes, etc.).