11-letter words containing c, g, s
- specialogue — a mail-order catalogue aimed at a specific group of customers
- spectrogram — a representation or photograph of a spectrum.
- spectrology — the study of ghosts, phantoms, or apparitions.
- speculating — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- speedcoding — (language) A pseudocode interpreter for mathematics on IBM 701 and IBM 650 written by John Backus in 1953.
- sphragistic — of or relating to seals or signet rings.
- sponge cake — a light, sweet cake made with a comparatively large proportion of eggs but no shortening.
- spring lock — a lock that fastens automatically by a spring.
- stage brace — a brace for supporting upright pieces of theatrical scenery.
- stage screw — a large, tapered screw fitted with a handle, used to secure braces for scenery to the floor of a stage.
- stagestruck — obsessed with the desire to become an actor or actress.
- steatopygic — extreme accumulation of fat on and about the buttocks, especially of women.
- stencilling — a device for applying a pattern, design, words, etc., to a surface, consisting of a thin sheet of cardboard, metal, or other material from which figures or letters have been cut out, a coloring substance, ink, etc., being rubbed, brushed, or pressed over the sheet, passing through the perforations and onto the surface.
- stenohygric — able to withstand only a narrow range of humidity
- step change — A step change is a sudden or major change in the way that something happens or the way that someone behaves.
- stepdancing — a dance emphasizing footwork or certain steps instead of other bodily gestures or movement
- stigmatical — Also, stigmatical. pertaining to a stigma, mark, spot, or the like.
- stock guard — a barrier for keeping cattle and other animals off the tracks or right of way.
- stockpiling — the activity of acquiring and storing a large quantity of something
- stocktaking — the examination or counting over of materials or goods on hand, as in a stockroom or store.
- strategical — pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.
- stringpiece — a long, usually horizontal piece of timber, beam, etc., for strengthening, connecting, or supporting a framework.
- subcategory — a subordinate category or a division of a category.
- submergence — to put or sink below the surface of water or any other enveloping medium.
- subscribing — to pledge, as by signing an agreement, to give or pay (a sum of money) as a contribution, gift, or investment: He subscribed $6,000 for the new church.
- sucking-pig — a pig that is not yet weaned
- súgán chair — a chair with a seat made from woven súgáns
- sugar candy — large crystals of sugar formed by suspending strings in a strong sugar solution that hardens on the strings, used chiefly for sweetening coffee
- sugar-candy — excessively sweet; saccharine: sugar-candy stories in family magazines.
- sugar-cured — (especially of ham or bacon) cured in a mixture of sugar, salt, and sodium nitrate or sodium nitrite.
- sugarcoated — to cover with sugar: to sugarcoat a pill.
- suicidology — the study of the causes and prevention of suicide.
- superagency — a very large agency, especially a large government agency that oversees smaller ones.
- superceding — supersede.
- supercharge — to charge with an abundant or excessive amount, as of energy, emotion, or tension.
- surfcasting — the act, technique, or sport of fishing by casting from the shoreline into the sea, usually using heavy-duty tackle.
- surgicenter — a surgical facility, not based in a hospital, where minor surgery is performed on an outpatient basis.
- swage block — an iron block containing holes and grooves of various sizes, used for heading bolts and shaping objects not easily worked on an anvil.
- swing space — a temporary working environment, used esp while renovations are being carried out
- swing-music — Also called Big Band music, swing music. a style of jazz, popular especially in the 1930s and often arranged for a large dance band, marked by a smoother beat and more flowing phrasing than Dixieland and having less complex harmonies and rhythms than modern jazz.
- switch plug — a plug, as for an electric iron, equipped with an on-off switch.
- switchgrass — a North American prairie grass
- syllogistic — of or relating to a syllogism.
- synergistic — pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling synergy: a synergistic effect.
- synoecology — the science of relationships between species
- syntagmatic — pertaining to a relationship among linguistic elements that occur sequentially in the chain of speech or writing, as the relationship between the sun and is shining or the and sun in the sentence The sun is shining.
- telescoping — an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly; the other form (reflecting telescope) has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed. Compare radio telescope.
- tense logic — the study of the logical properties of tense operators, and of the logical relations between sentences having tense, by means of consideration of appropriate formal systems
- thoughtcast — a mode of thought
- top slicing — mining of thick orebodies in a series of stopes from top to bottom, the roof being caved with its timbers as each stope is exhausted.