11-letter words containing c, a, s, h, t, r
- pastry chef — cook who specializes in patisserie
- petrarchism — the poetic style introduced by Petrarch and characteristic of his work, marked by complex grammatical structure, elaborate conceits, and conventionalized diction.
- petrarchist — a person who imitates the literary style employed by Petrarch, especially the poets of the English Renaissance who employed the Petrarchan sonnet style.
- phoniatrics — the study and treatment of voice disorders.
- physiatrics — physical medicine.
- predispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- psychiatric — the practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders.
- quitchgrass — Elymus repens.
- saccharated — sweetened
- saltchucker — a saltwater angler
- saprophytic — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- scarlet hat — a cardinal's hat
- scattershot — delivered over a wide area and at random; generalized and indiscriminate: a scattershot attack on the proposed program.
- scharnhorst — Gerhard Johann David von [gair-hahrt yoh-hahn dah-veet fuh n] /ˈgɛər hɑrt ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈdɑ vit fən/ (Show IPA), 1755–1813, Prussian general.
- schoolcraft — Henry Rowe [roh] /roʊ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1864, U.S. explorer, ethnologist, and author.
- scratch awl — an awllike device for scribing wood.
- scratch hit — a batted ball, usually poorly hit, barely enabling the batter to reach base safely: a scratch hit off the end of the bat.
- scratch pad — a pad of paper used for jotting down ideas, informal notes, preliminary writing, etc.
- scratch wig — a short wig, especially one that covers only part of the head.
- scratchback — an implement for scratching the back
- scratchcard — a cardboard coated with impermeable white clay and covered by a layer of ink that is scratched or scraped in patterns revealing the white surface below.
- scratchless — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
- search term — Computers. a word or other term used to electronically retrieve data, Web pages, or other information from files, databases, etc.: When you search the shopping website, ads relating to your search terms will appear along with your search results.
- searchlight — a device, usually consisting of a light and reflector, for throwing a beam of light in any direction.
- shag carpet — shag pile carpet
- shastracara — an action in accordance with the principles of the shastras.
- sheep track — a pathway made by and used by sheep, often in rocky or mountainous terrain, and sometimes followed by hikers
- shirtjacket — a jacket styled like a shirt
- shit-scared — very scared
- shoot craps — to play this game
- shortchange — to give less than the correct change to.
- sothic year — the fixed year of the ancient Egyptians, determined by the heliacal rising of Sirius, and equivalent to 365 days.
- speechcraft — the art of rhetoric
- spermatheca — a small sac or cavity in female or hermaphroditic invertebrates used to store sperm for fertilizing eggs, as in the queen bee.
- sphragistic — of or relating to seals or signet rings.
- 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.
- st. charles — a city in E Missouri, on the Missouri River.
- starchiness — of, relating to, or of the nature of starch.
- starchitect — a well-known and well-paid architect noted for his or her landmark buildings
- stench trap — a trap in a sewer that by means of a water seal prevents the upward passage of foul-smelling gases
- stitchcraft — needlework or embroidery
- storm watch — watch (def 20).
- straichtest — straightest
- strathclyde — a region in SW Scotland. 5300 sq. mi. (13,727 sq. km).
- stump ranch — (in British Columbia) an undeveloped ranch in the bush where animals graze among the stumps of felled trees
- sub-charter — a document, issued by a sovereign or state, outlining the conditions under which a corporation, colony, city, or other corporate body is organized, and defining its rights and privileges.
- switch yard — a railroad yard in which rolling stock is distributed or made up into trains.
- switchboard — a structural unit on which are mounted switches and instruments necessary to complete telephone circuits manually.
- switchgrass — a North American prairie grass
- tachysterol — an isomer of ergosterol, C28H44O, formed during the production of calciferol by the irradiation of ergosterol