11-letter words containing c, r, o, s
- scarborough — a seaport in North Yorkshire, in NE England.
- scare story — A scare story is something that is said or written to make people feel frightened and think that a situation is much more unpleasant or dangerous than it really is.
- scaremonger — a person who creates or spreads alarming news.
- scarf cloud — pileus (def 3).
- scarf joint — a joint in which two timbers or other structural members are fitted together with long end laps of various forms and held in place with bolts, straps, keys, fishplates, etc., to resist tension or compression.
- scattergood — a spendthrift.
- scattershot — delivered over a wide area and at random; generalized and indiscriminate: a scattershot attack on the proposed program.
- scenography — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
- 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.
- scholarship — learning; knowledge acquired by study; the academic attainments of a scholar.
- schollander — Donald ("Don") born 1946, U.S. swimmer.
- school trip — educational outing
- school year — the months of the year during which school is open and attendance at school is required.
- schoolcraft — Henry Rowe [roh] /roʊ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1864, U.S. explorer, ethnologist, and author.
- schoolmarms — a female schoolteacher, especially of the old-time country school type, popularly held to be strict and priggish.
- schoolwards — in the direction of school
- schorlomite — a mineral that is black in colour and belongs to the garnet group
- 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.
- schwarzkopf — Elisabeth, 1915–2006, German soprano, born in Poland.
- scissorlike — like scissors; moving, operating, or crossing in a manner suggesting the blades of scissors.
- scissortail — Also called scissortailed flycatcher [siz-er-teyld] /ˈsɪz ərˌteɪld/ (Show IPA). a flycatcher, Muscivora forficatus, of the southern U.S., Mexico, and Central America, having a long, deeply forked tail.
- scissorwise — in a movement or position which imitates scissors
- sclerectomy — excision of part of the sclera.
- sclerocauly — the feature of having a hard, dry stem
- scleroderma — a disease in which connective tissue anywhere in the body becomes hardened and rigid.
- sclerometer — any instrument for determining with precision the degree of hardness of a substance, especially a mineral, as by measuring the pressure necessary to pierce or scratch it.
- sclerophyll — Also, sclerophyllous [skleer-uh-fil-uh s] /ˌsklɪər əˈfɪl əs/ (Show IPA). of, relating to, or exhibiting sclerophylly.
- sclerotitis — scleritis.
- sclerotized — (especially of the cuticle of an arthropod) hardened by the presence of substances other than chitin, as by scleroproteins, waxes, or calcium salts.
- scolopendra — a member of a genus of centipedes belonging to the Scolopendridae family
- scorchingly — in a scorching manner
- scorekeeper — an official of a sports contest who keeps record of the score.
- scorpaenoid — resembling or related to the family Scorpaenidae.
- scorpionfly — any of several harmless insects of the order Mecoptera, the male of certain species having a reproductive structure that resembles the sting of a scorpion.
- scotch rose — a rose, Rosa spinosissima, of Eurasia, having pink, white, or yellow flowers.
- scots-irish — Scotch-Irish
- scoundrelly — having the character of a scoundrel; unscrupulous; villainous.
- scoutmaster — the leader or officer in charge of a band of scouts.
- screech owl — any of numerous small American owls of the genus Otus, having hornlike tufts of feathers, as O. asio, of eastern North America.
- 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.
- screen shot — Also called screen capture. a copy or image of what is seen on a computer screen at a given time: Save the screenshot as a graphics file.
- screenshort — a screenshot that is shared on a social media website.
- screw joint — a type of joint that is fastened by means of screws
- scribacious — having the tendency to write a lot or too much
- 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.
- scriptorial — of or relating to a scriptorium