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11-letter words containing a, n, l, 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.
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