11-letter words containing c, h, o, s, i
- rough music — (formerly) a loud cacophony created with tin pans, drums, etc, esp as a protest or demonstration of indignation outside someone's house
- sapphic ode — Horatian ode.
- saprophytic — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- schistosity — of, resembling, or in the form of schist.
- schistosome — Also called bilharzia. any elongated trematode of the genus Schistosoma, parasitic in the blood vessels of humans and other mammals; a blood fluke.
- schizogenic — reproducing or formed by fission.
- schizogonic — relating to schizogony
- schizophyte — any of the Schizophyta, a group of organisms comprising the schizomycetes and the schizophyceous algae, characterized by a simple structure and reproduction by simple fission or spores.
- schizopodal — pertaining to a split-foot or appendage
- scholarship — learning; knowledge acquired by study; the academic attainments of a scholar.
- school life — the period of your life that you spend at school
- school milk — (formerly, in Britain) a third of a pint of milk, originally provided free by the local education authority to all young pupils, then later given only to children who passed a needs or means test
- school ship — a vessel used in training students for nautical careers.
- school time — the period of the day or year when children are at school
- school trip — educational outing
- schoolchild — a child attending school.
- schoolgoing — the act of going to school
- schoonschip — (mathematics, tool) (From the Dutch for "beautiful ship" or "clean ship") A program for symbolic mathematics, especially High Energy Physics, written by M. Veltman of CERN in 1964. Schoonschip only does algebra, no derivatives. It was implemented originally in CDC 6600 and CDC 7600 assembly language and currently in 680x0 assembly language. Runs on Amiga, Atari ST, Sun-3 and NeXT. It was once maintained by David Williams at the University of Michigan Physics Department.
- schorlomite — a mineral that is black in colour and belongs to the garnet group
- schottische — a round dance resembling the polka.
- schrödinbug — (jargon, programming) /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
- schrodinger — Erwin [er-vin] /ˈɛr vɪn/ (Show IPA), 1887–1961, German physicist: Nobel prize 1933.
- scopophilia — the obtaining of sexual pleasure by looking at nude bodies, erotic photographs, etc.
- scopophilic — the obtaining of sexual pleasure by looking at nude bodies, erotic photographs, etc.
- scopophobia — the fear of being observed
- scorchingly — in a scorching manner
- scotch mist — a combination of mist or fog and drizzle, occurring frequently in Scotland and parts of England.
- scotch pine — a pine, Pinus sylvestris, of Eurasia, having a reddish trunk and twisted, bluish-green needles.
- scotophilic — living and flourishing in darkness.
- scotophobin — a peptide isolated from the brains of rats conditioned to avoid darkness, alleged to induce a dark-avoidance response in untrained rats, mice, and other animals.
- scots-irish — Scotch-Irish
- scrimshoner — a person who makes scrimshaw
- scripholder — a person who owns a scrip or scrips
- scripophile — a person who practices scripophily.
- scripophily — the collecting by hobbyists of old stock certificates and bonds that have no intrinsic value other than their aesthetic appeal or relative rarity.
- scyphistoma — a stage in the life cycle of a jellyfish or other scyphozoan when it is fixed in place and reproduces asexually to produce free-swimming medusas.
- seychellois — a native or inhabitant of Seychelles.
- sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
- shock radio — broadcasting by a commercial radio station whose humor includes tasteless jokes, sexual innuendo, and ethnic insults.
- shortcoming — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
- simethicone — an active ingredient in many antacid preparations that causes small mucus-entrapped air bubbles in the intestines to coalesce into larger bubbles that are more easily passed.
- sixth chord — an inversion of a triad in which the second note (next above the root) is in the bass.
- slow-twitch — of or relating to muscle fiber that contracts relatively slowly and is resistant to fatigue (distinguished from fast-twitch).
- snow chains — device that gives tyres extra grip
- sociography — the branch of sociology that uses statistical data to describe social phenomena.
- sociopathic — a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
- 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.
- 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.