11-letter words containing a, l, n, c, i
- rouen lilac — a shrub, Syringa chinensis, of France, having clusters of fragrant, lilac-purple flowers.
- royal icing — a hard white icing made from egg whites and icing sugar, used for coating and decorating cakes, esp fruit cakes
- ruridecanal — relating to a rural dean
- sacculation — formed into or having a saccule, sac, or saclike dilation.
- saint clair — Arthur, 1736–1818, American Revolutionary War general, born in Scotland: 1st governor of the Northwest Territory, 1787–1802.
- saint lucia — one of the Windward Islands, in the E West Indies.
- saint-cloud — a city in central Minnesota, on the Mississippi.
- salon music — music of a simple, agreeable, frequently sentimental character, played usually by a small orchestra.
- saltimbanco — a charlatan or fake
- scaffolding — a temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the erection, repair, or decoration of a building.
- scamblingly — in a scambling, noisy, or intrusive manner
- scarlatinal — scarlet fever.
- scatterling — a person with no fixed home; a wanderer; a vagabond
- scintillant — scintillating; sparkling.
- scintillate — to emit sparks.
- scopolamine — a colorless, syrupy, water-soluble alkaloid, C 1 7 H 2 1 NO 4 , obtained from certain plants of the nightshade family, used chiefly as a sedative and mydriatic and to alleviate the symptoms of motion sickness.
- scrawlingly — in a scrawling manner
- screamingly — If you say that something is, for example, screamingly funny or screamingly boring, you mean that it is extremely funny or extremely boring.
- searchingly — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
- secondarily — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
- secretional — of or relating to secretion
- self-acting — acting by itself; automatic.
- shellacking — lac that has been purified and formed into thin sheets, used for making varnish.
- sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
- side glance — a look sideways at someone or something
- side-glance — a glance directed to the side; an oblique or sideways look: a side-glance of displeasure at her interrupter.
- simnel cake — any of several kinds of rich fruitcake covered with almond paste.
- singletrack — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
- slacklining — the activity of walking across a narrow line of synthetic webbing hung slackly above the ground
- slimnastics — exercises to help someone lose or control weight.
- sling chair — any of several varieties of chairs having a seat and back formed from a single sheet of canvas, leather, or the like, hanging loosely in a frame.
- slot racing — the activity of racing slot cars.
- slow-acting — working or acting slowly, not immediately
- snail-paced — slow of pace or motion, like a snail; sluggish.
- snatchingly — in a snatching manner
- social fund — (in Britain) a social security fund from which loans or payments may be made to people in cases of extreme need
- social unit — a person or a group of persons, as a family, functioning as a unit in society.
- socializing — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- solidarnosc — a Polish organization of independent trade unions founded in 1980: outlawed by the government of Poland in 1982.
- speculating — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
- spiculation — formation into spicules.
- spinachlike — resembling or characteristic of spinach
- spinal cord — the cord of nerve tissue extending through the spinal canal of the spinal column.
- static line — a line attached to a parachute pack and to a cable in an aircraft for the purpose of automatically opening the parachute after it is dropped.
- stickhandle — (in hockey and lacrosse) to control and skillfully maneuver the ball or puck with the stick.
- suballiance — a suborder or subdivision of an alliance
- subcardinal — (of veins) next to the cardinal veins
- subclinical — pertaining to an early stage of a disease; having no noticeable clinical symptoms.
- subdiaconal — of or relating to a subdeacon.