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

  • 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.
  • psychodelia — the production of, or the culture associated with, psychedelic experiences
  • 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.
  • radicellose — having small roots or rhizoids
  • radio shack — a room or structure, as on a ship, for housing radio equipment.
  • radiocesium — cesium 137.
  • reconsigned — to hand over or deliver formally or officially; commit (often followed by to).
  • rediscovery — the act or an instance of discovering.
  • rhapsodical — extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic.
  • rock island — a port in NW Illinois, on the Mississippi: government arsenal.
  • saint-cloud — a city in central Minnesota, on the Mississippi.
  • sapphic ode — Horatian ode.
  • sarcodinian — belonging or pertaining to the protist phylum Sarcodina, comprising protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopodia.
  • sarcoidosis — a disease of unknown cause, characterized by granulomatous tubercles of the skin, lymph nodes, lungs, eyes, and other structures.
  • 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.
  • scarabaeoid — resembling a scarab.
  • schizopodal — pertaining to a split-foot or appendage
  • schoolchild — a child attending 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.
  • sclerotized — (especially of the cuticle of an arthropod) hardened by the presence of substances other than chitin, as by scleroproteins, waxes, or calcium salts.
  • scorpaenoid — resembling or related to the family Scorpaenidae.
  • scripholder — a person who owns a scrip or scrips
  • second city — Chicago, Ill.
  • 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 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-tier — not in the first rank
  • secondarily — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
  • semi-closed — having or forming a boundary or barrier: He was blocked by a closed door. The house had a closed porch.
  • seminomadic — belonging or relating to an ethnic group or people who migrate seasonally and cultivate crops during periods of settlement
  • service dog — a dog trained to assist a person with a disability that is not related to vision or hearing.
  • sextodecimo — sixteenmo (def 1).
  • shock radio — broadcasting by a commercial radio station whose humor includes tasteless jokes, sexual innuendo, and ethnic insults.
  • sideroscope — an apparatus for detecting splinters of iron or steel in the eye.
  • siecle d'or — the period of the reign of Louis XIV of France.
  • siliconized — (of a material) having silicone added.
  • sipunculoid — a member of the group Sipunculoidea
  • sixth chord — an inversion of a triad in which the second note (next above the root) is in the bass.
  • social fund — (in Britain) a social security fund from which loans or payments may be made to people in cases of extreme need
  • sockdoliger — a conclusive argument; a hard blow
  • sodomitical — anal or oral copulation with a member of the opposite sex.
  • solicitudes — the state of being solicitous; anxiety or concern.
  • solidarnosc — a Polish organization of independent trade unions founded in 1980: outlawed by the government of Poland in 1982.
  • somaticized — to convert (anxiety) into physical symptoms.
  • sorbic acid — a white, crystalline compound, C 6 H 8 O 2 , slightly soluble in water, soluble in many organic solvents: used as a preservative in pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and food.
  • speedcoding — (language)   A pseudocode interpreter for mathematics on IBM 701 and IBM 650 written by John Backus in 1953.
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