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11-letter words containing c, o, d, n, s

  • on schedule — with no delay
  • onside kick — a kickoff deliberately kicked a short distance in an attempt by the kicking team to regain possession of the ball by recovering it after it has traveled forward the legally required distance of 10 yards, beyond the 50-yard line.
  • outdistance — to leave behind, as in running; outstrip: The winning horse outdistanced the second-place winner by five lengths.
  • pedodontics — the branch of dentistry dealing with the care and treatment of children's teeth.
  • pound scots — pound2 (def 7).
  • proceedings — a particular action or course or manner of action.
  • productions — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
  • providences — a seaport in and the capital of Rhode Island, in the NE part, at the head of Narragansett Bay.
  • quadrasonic — of, noting, or pertaining to the recording and reproduction of sound over four separate transmission or direct reproduction channels instead of the customary two of the stereo system: a quadraphonic recording.
  • reconsigned — to hand over or deliver formally or officially; commit (often followed by to).
  • respondence — the act of responding; response: respondence to a stimulus.
  • rock island — a port in NW Illinois, on the Mississippi: government arsenal.
  • rocketsonde — a telemeter for gathering data on the atmosphere at very high altitudes, carried aloft by rocket and returned to earth by parachute.
  • rood screen — a screen, often of elaborate design and properly surmounted by a rood, separating the nave from the choir or chancel of a church.
  • saint-cloud — a city in central Minnesota, on the Mississippi.
  • sarcodinian — belonging or pertaining to the protist phylum Sarcodina, comprising protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopodia.
  • sardonicism — characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering: a sardonic grin.
  • scaffolding — a temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the erection, repair, or decoration of a building.
  • scaled-down — reduced in level of activity, extent, numbers, etc
  • schollander — Donald ("Don") born 1946, U.S. swimmer.
  • school fund — the money provided by a government or raised by parents and teachers to finance the running of a school
  • 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.
  • scolopendra — a member of a genus of centipedes belonging to the Scolopendridae family
  • scorpaenoid — resembling or related to the family Scorpaenidae.
  • scoundrelly — having the character of a scoundrel; unscrupulous; villainous.
  • screen door — A screen door is a door made of fine netting which is on the outside of the main door of a house. It is used to keep insects out when the main door is open.
  • scrub round — to waive; avoid or ignore
  • second base — the second in order of the bases from home plate.
  • second best — the next to the best in performance, achievement, craftsmanship, etc.
  • second city — Chicago, Ill.
  • second hand — the hand that indicates the seconds on a clock or watch.
  • second home — an additional residence, as at the shore or in the country, where one goes on weekends, vacations, and the like.
  • second lien — a lien subordinate to a previous or preferred lien.
  • second line — a jaunty, syncopated rhythm in 2/4 time, often used in the rhythm and blues and jazz of New Orleans
  • second mate — the officer of a merchant vessel next in command beneath the first mate.
  • second name — law: family name
  • second self — one who associates so closely with a given person as to assume that person's mode of behavior, personality, beliefs, etc.
  • second unit — an additional crew on a film production, usually used at a second location for filming crowd scenes, exteriors, and other shots that do not require the principal actors.
  • second wind — the return of ease in breathing after exhaustion caused by continued physical exertion, as in running.
  • second-best — the next to the best in performance, achievement, craftsmanship, etc.
  • second-feet — a unit of measurement of liquid flow, especially of rivers, equal to one cubic foot per second.
  • second-foot — a unit of measurement of liquid flow, especially of rivers, equal to one cubic foot per second.
  • 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.
  • second-tier — not in the first rank
  • secondarily — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
  • seminomadic — belonging or relating to an ethnic group or people who migrate seasonally and cultivate crops during periods of settlement
  • siliconized — (of a material) having silicone added.
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