susurrus

Word Length Dictionary COUSCOUSSOUS 12 OED COOSCOOSOOS 11 OED COUSCOOSOOS 11 OED COUSCOUSOUS 11 OED COUSCOUSSOU 11 OED COUSCOOSOO 10 OED COUSCOUSOU 10 OED CUSCOUSOUS 10 UWD COROCOROS 9 OED CURUCUCUS 9 UWD CUSCOUSOU 9 UWD OOSPOROUS 9 UWD OUROBOROS 9 OED SUBGROUPS 9 UWD SUCCUBOUS 9 UWD SURUCUCUS 9 UWD UROPODOUS 9 UWD CROUPOUS 8 UWD CURUCUCU 8 UWD ORDUROUS 8 OED PRODRUGS 8 UWD PROSODUS 8 UWD PROSORUS 8 UWD SOURPUSS 8 UWD SUBGROUP 8 UWD SUCCOURS 8 UWD SUCCUBUS 8 UWD SUDOROUS 8 OED SURUCUCU 8 UWD SUSURRUS 8 UWD Can readers improve on any of the selections here?

Only today there is a bit of a susurrus about a sign erected by Rick Tyler from Tennessee which says 'Make America White Again.' In South Texas there are 'tender age' shelters for the youngest separated children, a fact that reduced an MSNBC anchor to tears live on air.

Off in corners, rumours would occasionally circulate about death or suicide from overwork, but such faintly sweet susurrus would rightly be regarded as no more than local manifestations of the spirit of total work, for some even as a praiseworthy way of taking work to its logical limit in ultimate sacrifice.

In late afternoon when I was walking home, the northern sun tended to cast the park in chiaroscuro light; there were susurrus of chiaroscuro and plenty of skittish squirrels.

My refrigerator's susurrus in the kitchen never seems to sleep at all.

She went on to mention several musical onomatopes which the language of the Romans has bequeathed to the English tongue: murmur, susurrus, sonorous, resonant, Ulalume (made over by Poe from the Latin ululare); as well as harsh vocables like strident.

Nobody argues that committing genocide is all right because it's so hard not to , or because the victims obstreperously refuse to leave or keep getting in the way; whereas whenever civilians turn up dead in a place of conflict, this is just the susurrus of exculpation you hear.

The sun beating down, the murmur and susurrus of voices, Prices of this and that, who's in, who's out, the stockmarket, boys' names, girls', And behind or below the comforting murmur, faintly, disturbed by cries, The other clamor of the beating surf, Felt somehow, heard somehow, through the warm sand and in my body as I bake all this comes back to me now, But especially the intricate mess of black, gray, white hair on my father's sundarkened chest, Not seen or touched but known, And the sense of something coming, something dire, hidden below or behind it all.

Everything's in touch with everything else: The sky with the sea, the wave susurrus ...

representations that make up the cultural susurrus which often comes to

and the ironic ventriloquy He bestowed on your birthplace: Susurrus of