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11-letter words containing a, n, s, e, r

  • saddle horn — horn (def 19).
  • salad green — a leafy green vegetable, as lettuce, watercress, or escarole, served raw as or in a salad.
  • salesperson — a person who sells goods, services, etc.
  • saline drip — the usually intravenous drop-by-drop administration of an isotonic solution of sodium chloride in distilled water
  • salinometer — an instrument for measuring the amount of salt in a solution.
  • salmonberry — the salmon-colored, edible fruit of a raspberry, Rubus spectabilis, of the Pacific coast of North America.
  • samian ware — a red-glazed terracotta pottery produced in Gaul and the Moselle Valley a.d. 100–300 and copied from Arretine ware.
  • san gabriel — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • san gennaroSan [san;; Italian sahn] /sæn;; Italian sɑn/ (Show IPA), Januarius.
  • san leandro — a city in W California.
  • san lorenzo — a town in W California, near San Francisco Bay.
  • sanctioneer — a person who advocates the imposition of sanctions
  • sanctuarize — to give sanctuary to
  • sand desert — a desert in which the ground is covered in sand
  • sand grouse — any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young.
  • sand hopper — beach flea.
  • sand myrtle — an evergreen shrub, Leiophyllum buxifolium, of the heath family, native to the eastern U.S., having simple, leathery leaves and clusters of white or pink flowers.
  • sand-groper — a native of the arid region of Western Australia.
  • sandculture — the hydroponic cultivation of plants in sand.
  • sansevieria — any plant belonging to the genus Sansevieria, of the agave family, grown as a houseplant for its stiff, sword-shaped leaves and white or yellow flowers.
  • santo andre — a city in E Brazil, near São Paulo.
  • saprolegnia — a variety of fungus
  • sarcenchyme — the connective tissue of some sponges
  • sarus crane — a large, gray crane, Grus antigone, of Asia, having a naked, red head.
  • satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • sauerbraten — a pot roast of beef, marinated before cooking in a mixture of vinegar, sugar, and seasonings.
  • sauk centre — a town in central Minnesota: model for town in Sinclair Lewis's novel Main Street.
  • scaremonger — a person who creates or spreads alarming news.
  • scatter pin — a woman's small ornamental pin, usually worn with other similar pins on a dress, suit jacket, etc.
  • scatter-gun — a shotgun
  • scatterling — a person with no fixed home; a wanderer; a vagabond
  • scenography — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
  • scent spray — perfume that comes in an aerosol bottle
  • schollanderDonald ("Don") born 1946, U.S. swimmer.
  • scolopendra — a member of a genus of centipedes belonging to the Scolopendridae family
  • scorpaenoid — resembling or related to the family Scorpaenidae.
  • scrapepenny — a person who is stingy; a miser
  • scrappiness — made up of scraps or of odds and ends; fragmentary; disconnected.
  • screamingly — If you say that something is, for example, screamingly funny or screamingly boring, you mean that it is extremely funny or extremely boring.
  • screen name — a unique sequence of characters that a person chooses to use for identification purposes when interacting with others online, as in computer games, instant messaging, or forums.
  • screen pass — a pass thrown to a receiver who is directly in back of a wall of blockers and who is behind or not far beyond the line of scrimmage.
  • screen wash — a fluid that is squirted onto a car windscreen to clean it
  • screencraft — the skills and talent involved in writing or making a movie
  • screensaver — a program that displays a constantly shifting pattern on a screen when the computer is idle, originally used to prevent damage to the screen through continuous display of the same image but now used primarily for decoration.
  • sea serpent — an enormous, imaginary, snakelike or dragonlike marine animal.
  • searchingly — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
  • second-rate — of lesser or minor quality, importance, or the like: a second-rate poet.
  • secondarily — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
  • secretional — of or relating to secretion
  • sedan chair — an enclosed vehicle for one person, borne on poles by two bearers and common during the 17th and 18th centuries.
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