11-letter words containing a, d, i, s
- string band — a band consisting of stringed instruments
- stringboard — a board or facing covering the ends of the steps in a staircase.
- stromateoid — resembling or related to the Stromateidae.
- studio flat — a flat with one main room
- sub-heading — a title or heading of a subdivision, as in a chapter, essay, or newspaper article.
- subadditive — something that is added, as one substance to another, to alter or improve the general quality or to counteract undesirable properties: an additive that thins paint.
- subaudition — an act or instance of understanding or mentally supplying something not expressed.
- subcardinal — (of veins) next to the cardinal veins
- subdiaconal — of or relating to a subdeacon.
- subdominant — Music. the fourth tone of a diatonic scale, next below the dominant.
- subindicate — to indirectly indicate or hint
- subjudicial — pertaining to judgment in courts of justice or to the administration of justice: judicial proceedings; the judicial system.
- subordinacy — a subordinate person or thing.
- subordinary — any of several heraldic bearings of secondary importance to the ordinary, such as the lozenge, the orle, and the fret
- subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- sulfonamide — sulfa drug.
- superdainty — very dainty
- suraddition — an additional title
- swan maiden — any of a class of folkloric maidens, in many Indo-European and Asian tales, capable of being transformed into swans, as by magic or sorcery.
- swear blind — to assert emphatically
- swiss chard — chard.
- swiss guard — a member of a corps of bodyguards protecting the pope, with membership restricted to natives of Switzerland.
- switch yard — a railroad yard in which rolling stock is distributed or made up into trains.
- switchblade — a pocketknife, the blade of which is held by a spring and can be released suddenly, as by pressing a button.
- switchboard — a structural unit on which are mounted switches and instruments necessary to complete telephone circuits manually.
- switzerland — a republic in central Europe. 15,944 sq. mi. (41,294 sq. km). Capital: Bern.
- swivel head — A swivel head is a bearing between the traveling block and the kelly.
- sylvic acid — abietic acid.
- syndicalism — a form or development of trade unionism, originating in France, that aims at the possession of the means of production and distribution, and ultimately at the control of society, by federated bodies of industrial workers, and that seeks to realize its purposes through general strikes, terrorism, sabotage, etc.
- syndication — a group of individuals or organizations combined or making a joint effort to undertake some specific duty or carry out specific transactions or negotiations: The local furniture store is individually owned, but is part of a buying syndicate.
- syndyasmian — pertaining to sexual pairing without exclusive co-habitation
- synodically — by the authority of a synod
- tabularised — to tabulate.
- tardis-like — having an interior that is more spacious than could be imagined from looking at the outside
- taxidermist — embalmer
- testudinate — formed like the carapace of a tortoise; arched; vaulted.
- the islands — the islands of the South Pacific
- the midrash — these commentaries and notes collectively
- theodorakis — Mikis (ˈmikis). born 1925, Greek composer, who wrote the music for the films Zorba the Greek (1965) and Serpico (1973): imprisoned (1967–70) for his opposition to the Greek military government
- third space — the coffee shop considered as an alternative to a bar or restaurant as a place to socialize outside the home
- third-class — of the lowest or poorest class or quality; inferior.
- thirdstream — a style of music that uses features of both jazz and classical music in an attempt to develop a new and distinctive musical idiom.
- thread silk — silk yarn produced by a silk throwster.
- throw aside — If you throw aside a way of life, a principle, or an idea, you abandon it or reject it.
- tidal basin — an artificial body of water open to a river, stream, etc., subject to tidal action.
- tight-arsed — inhibited or conservative in attitude or behaviour
- tight-assed — rigidly self-controlled, inhibited, or conservative in attitude.
- to this day — even now
- tordesillas — a town in NW Spain, SW of Valladolid: treaty (1494) defining the colonial spheres of Spain and Portugal.
- trade winds — Also, trade winds. Also called trades. any of the nearly constant easterly winds that dominate most of the tropics and subtropics throughout the world, blowing mainly from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere, and from the southeast in the Southern Hemisphere.