11-letter words containing c, s, r
- afterpieces — Plural form of afterpiece.
- afterschool — for students and taking place after they finish their day in school, usually in the late afternoon: He’s looking for an afterschool job. Is there afterschool tutoring in math?
- aftershocks — Plural form of aftershock.
- ahistorical — not related to history; not historical
- air cushion — an inflatable cushion, usually made of rubber or plastic
- air service — the services performed by an airline, as flights between various destinations to transport passengers, freight, and mail.
- air vesicle — a large air-filled intercellular space in some aquatic plants
- airsickness — a feeling of nausea and dizziness, sometimes accompanied by vomiting, as a result of the motion of the aircraft in which one is traveling.
- alaska crab — king crab (def 2).
- alaska-crab — horseshoe crab.
- allen screw — a screw that has a hexagonal cross section in the head, designed to be turned using an Allen key
- alt.sources — (messaging, programming) A Usenet newsgroup for posting program source code.
- altarpieces — Plural form of altarpiece.
- americanism — An Americanism is an expression that is typical of people living in the United States of America.
- americanist — a person who studies some aspect of America, such as its history or languages
- amici prism — a compound prism that spreads out incident white light into a spectrum but produces no deviation of the central color of the dispersed beam.
- amphibrachs — Plural form of amphibrach.
- amphimacers — Plural form of amphimacer.
- anachronism — You say that something is an anachronism when you think that it is out of date or old-fashioned.
- anachronist — A person who has anachronistic views or habits.
- anachronous — relating to anachronism; misplaced chronologically
- anarchistic — An anarchistic person believes in anarchism. Anarchistic activity or literature promotes anarchism.
- ancestorial — of, belonging to, or relating to ancestors
- ancestrally — Pertaining to ancestry.
- anchor shot — grapple shot.
- anchor span — (on a suspension or cantilever bridge) a span from an anchorage to the nearest pier or tower.
- ancillaries — subordinate; subsidiary.
- anemochores — Plural form of anemochore.
- anfractuous — characterized by twists and turns; convoluted
- anisocarpic — (of a flower) having a lower number of carpels than of other floral parts.
- anisocercal — (of fish) having unequal tail-fin lobes
- anisometric — not isometric; having unsymmetrical parts or unequal measurements
- anisotropic — not isotropic; having different physical properties in different directions
- answer back — If someone, especially a child, answers back, they speak rudely to you when you speak to them.
- answerbacks — Plural form of answerback.
- anthracnose — any of several fungus diseases of plants and trees, such as vines and beans, characterized by oval dark depressed spots on the fruit and elsewhere
- anthracosis — a lung disease due to inhalation of coal dust
- anticarious — preventing or retarding caries.
- antichrists — Plural form of antichrist.
- antisecrecy — opposed to secrecy, particularly in government
- aortoclasia — rupture of the aorta.
- apgar score — system for determining the condition of an infant at birth
- aphrodisiac — An aphrodisiac is a food, drink, or drug which is said to make people want to have sex.
- apostrophic — a digression in the form of an address to someone not present, or to a personified object or idea, as “O Death, where is thy sting?”.
- appearances — the act or fact of appearing, as to the eye or mind or before the public: the unannounced appearance of dinner guests; the last appearance of Caruso in Aïda; her first appearance at a stockholders' meeting.
- applescript — (language) An object-oriented shell language for the Macintosh, approximately a superset of HyperTalk.
- applicators — Plural form of applicator.
- appreciates — to be grateful or thankful for: They appreciated his thoughtfulness.
- apprentices — Plural form of apprentice.
- aprioristic — belief in, or reliance upon, a priori reasoning, arguments, or principles.