11-letter words containing a, t, i, c, s
- septicaemia — the invasion and persistence of pathogenic bacteria in the blood-stream.
- shamanistic — the animistic religion of northern Asia, embracing a belief in powerful spirits that can be influenced only by shamans.
- shirtjacket — a jacket styled like a shirt
- shit-scared — very scared
- siamese cat — one of a breed of slender, short-haired cats, raised originally in Siam, having a fawn or grayish body with extremities of a darker shade of the same color.
- sidetracked — any railroad track, other than a siding, auxiliary to the main track.
- significant — important; of consequence.
- significate — something signified
- 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.
- sir patrick — Norman Bel [bel] /bɛl/ (Show IPA), 1893–1958, U.S. industrial and stage designer and architect.
- skeptically — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
- skip tracer — an investigator whose job is to locate missing persons, especially debtors.
- slacktivism — actions taken to bring about political or social change but requiring only minimal commitment, effort, or risk: students engaging in slacktivism by signing an online petition.
- slimnastics — exercises to help someone lose or control weight.
- slot racing — the activity of racing slot cars.
- slow-acting — working or acting slowly, not immediately
- snatchingly — in a snatching manner
- sociability — the act or an instance of being sociable.
- social unit — a person or a group of persons, as a family, functioning as a unit in society.
- socialistic — of or relating to socialists or socialism.
- sociopathic — a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
- sodomitical — anal or oral copulation with a member of the opposite sex.
- somatically — of the body; bodily; physical.
- somaticized — to convert (anxiety) into physical symptoms.
- somatogenic — developing from somatic cells.
- somatotonic — a person who has a somatotonic personality
- sonofabitch — an abusive term of address or of description
- sophistical — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
- sothic year — the fixed year of the ancient Egyptians, determined by the heliacal rising of Sirius, and equivalent to 365 days.
- spaceflight — the flying of manned or unmanned spacecraft into or in outer space.
- sparagmatic — denoting a type of Precambrian rock found in Scandinavia
- spasmolytic — of or noting spasmolysis.
- spastically — Pathology. pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by spasm, especially tonic spasm.
- special act — a legislative act that applies only to specific persons or to a specific area.
- specialties — a special or distinctive quality, mark, state, or condition.
- specificate — a thing which is specified
- spectrality — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
- specularity — the state of resembling a mirror
- 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.
- speculatist — a person who speculates
- speculative — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
- spermatoxic — (of a substance) toxic to spermatozoa.
- sphragistic — of or relating to seals or signet rings.
- spiculation — formation into spicules.
- spirit cave — an archaeological site in Thailand that has produced evidence of very early plant domestication in Southeast Asia, dated c7000 b.c.
- spirochaete — any of various spiral-shaped motile bacteria of the family Spirochaetaceae, certain species, as Treponema, Leptospira, and Borrelia, being pathogenic to humans and other animals, and other species being free-living, saprophytic, or parasitic.
- spodomantic — relating to spodomancy
- sporadicity — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- sprite crab — ghost crab.