11-letter words containing c, r, o, s, h
- 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.
- sea-poacher — poacher1 (def 2).
- sepulchrous — of the nature of a sepulchre
- 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.
- shock front — the forward boundary surface of a shock wave.
- shock radio — broadcasting by a commercial radio station whose humor includes tasteless jokes, sexual innuendo, and ethnic insults.
- shoot craps — to play this game
- short score — a condensed version of the score for a musical composition, usually written for piano
- shortchange — to give less than the correct change to.
- shortcoming — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
- sixth chord — an inversion of a triad in which the second note (next above the root) is in the bass.
- smokechaser — a person who fights forest fires, especially one with lightweight equipment.
- so much for — So much for is used to indicate that you have finished talking about a subject.
- sociography — the branch of sociology that uses statistical data to describe social phenomena.
- sothic year — the fixed year of the ancient Egyptians, determined by the heliacal rising of Sirius, and equivalent to 365 days.
- sour cherry — a cherry, Prunus cerasus, characterized by gray bark and the spreading habit of its branches.
- speech form — linguistic form.
- 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.
- stenochrome — a printed design made using stenochromy
- stenochromy — the art of printing designs made of more than one colour using a single impression
- stenohygric — able to withstand only a narrow range of humidity
- stichometry — the practice of writing a prose text in lines, often of slightly differing lengths, that correspond to units of sense and indicate phrasal rhythms.
- stock horse — a horse or pony used in herding cattle.
- stockholder — Also called stockowner. a holder or owner of stock in a corporation.
- stop chorus — a solo during which the rhythm section plays only the first beat of each phrase of music
- storm watch — watch (def 20).
- stretch out — lie down, sprawl
- sub-chronic — constant; habitual; inveterate: a chronic liar.
- subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
- subchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
- subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
- superheroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- superschool — a large school
- switch over — If you switch over when you are watching television, you change to another channel.
- switchboard — a structural unit on which are mounted switches and instruments necessary to complete telephone circuits manually.
- symposiarch — the president, director, or master of a symposium.
- synchoresis — the act or an instance of conceding an argument in order to make a stronger one
- synchromesh — noting or pertaining to a synchronized shifting mechanism.
- synchromism — a movement of the early 20th century led by American artists and manifested in their experimentation with nonfigurative or entirely abstract paintings containing shapes and volumes of pure color. Compare Orphism (def 2).
- synchronise — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.
- synchronism — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
- synchronize — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.
- synchronous — occurring at the same time; coinciding in time; contemporaneous; simultaneous.
- synchrotron — a type of cyclotron consisting of magnetic sections alternately spaced with sections in which particles are electrostatically accelerated.
- tachysterol — an isomer of ergosterol, C28H44O, formed during the production of calciferol by the irradiation of ergosterol