11-letter words containing c, a, s, e, o
- scaramouche — a stock character in commedia dell'arte and farce who is a cowardly braggart, easily beaten and frightened.
- scare story — A scare story is something that is said or written to make people feel frightened and think that a situation is much more unpleasant or dangerous than it really is.
- scaremonger — a person who creates or spreads alarming news.
- scattergood — a spendthrift.
- scattershot — delivered over a wide area and at random; generalized and indiscriminate: a scattershot attack on the proposed program.
- scenography — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
- sceuophylax — a keeper of sacred vessels
- schaffhouse — a town in N Switzerland, capital of Schaffhausen canton, on the Rhine. Pop: 33 628 (2000)
- schecklaton — a gilded leather used for embroidering jacks
- schollander — Donald ("Don") born 1946, U.S. swimmer.
- school meal — lunch served at educational institution
- school year — the months of the year during which school is open and attendance at school is required.
- sclerocauly — the feature of having a hard, dry stem
- scleroderma — a disease in which connective tissue anywhere in the body becomes hardened and rigid.
- scolopendra — a member of a genus of centipedes belonging to the Scolopendridae family
- 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.
- scorpaenoid — resembling or related to the family Scorpaenidae.
- scotch tape — clear adhesive tape
- scotch-tape — to fasten or mend with Scotch tape.
- scoutmaster — the leader or officer in charge of a band of scouts.
- sea scallop — Also called giant scallop. a large scallop, Pecten magellanicus, of deep waters off the Atlantic coast of North America.
- sea-poacher — poacher1 (def 2).
- second base — the second in order of the bases from home plate.
- second hand — the hand that indicates the seconds on a clock or watch.
- second mate — the officer of a merchant vessel next in command beneath the first mate.
- second name — law: family name
- second-half — happening in the second half of a game
- second-hand — the hand that indicates the seconds on a clock or watch.
- 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
- selectorate — a body of people responsible for making a selection, esp members of a political party who select candidates for an election
- selectorial — of or relating to selections or selectors
- seminomadic — belonging or relating to an ethnic group or people who migrate seasonally and cultivate crops during periods of settlement
- semiotician — the study of signs and symbols as elements of communicative behavior; the analysis of systems of communication, as language, gestures, or clothing.
- serbo-croat — Serbo-Croat is one of the languages spoken in the former Yugoslavia.
- serological — the science dealing with the immunological properties and actions of serum.
- shacklebone — the wrist
- shade cloth — a covering made of cloth or plastic, especially one used to control the amount of sunlight to which plants are exposed.
- shcherbakov — a former name (1946–57) of Andropov.
- shear force — Shear force is force that makes one surface of a substance move over another parallel surface.
- sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
- shockheaded — having a shock or thick mass of hair on the head.
- shortchange — to give less than the correct change to.
- slacken off — If something slackens off, it becomes slower, less active, or less intense.
- slave coast — the coast of W equatorial Africa, between the Benin and Volta rivers: a center of slavery traffic 16th–19th centuries.
- smokechaser — a person who fights forest fires, especially one with lightweight equipment.
- snap course — an academic course that can be passed with a minimum of effort.
- snow-capped — A snow-capped mountain is covered with snow at the top.
- social evil — prostitution.