11-letter words containing d, i, s, c
- 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.
- screen grid — a grid placed between the anode and the control electrode in a vacuum tube, usually maintained at a fixed positive potential.
- screwdriver — a hand tool for turning a screw, consisting of a handle attached to a long, narrow shank, usually of metal, which tapers and flattens out to a tip that fits into the slotted head of a screw.
- scripholder — a person who owns a scrip or scrips
- scrutinised — to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
- scrutinized — to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
- scuba diver — sb who dives underwater
- secchi disk — an opaque, white or black-and-white disk used to measure the cloudiness or turbidity of ocean water by the point at which it is no longer visible from the surface.
- 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.
- secularized — to make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism.
- sedan chair — an enclosed vehicle for one person, borne on poles by two bearers and common during the 17th and 18th centuries.
- seductively — tending to seduce; enticing; beguiling; captivating: a seductive smile.
- self-deceit — the act or fact of deceiving oneself.
- semi-closed — having or forming a boundary or barrier: He was blocked by a closed door. The house had a closed porch.
- semifluidic — of the nature of a semifluid; partially fluidic
- seminomadic — belonging or relating to an ethnic group or people who migrate seasonally and cultivate crops during periods of settlement
- senectitude — the last stage of life; old age.
- service dog — a dog trained to assist a person with a disability that is not related to vision or hearing.
- sextodecimo — sixteenmo (def 1).
- shipwrecked — the destruction or loss of a ship, as by sinking.
- shit-scared — very scared
- shock radio — broadcasting by a commercial radio station whose humor includes tasteless jokes, sexual innuendo, and ethnic insults.
- side glance — a look sideways at someone or something
- side-effect — any effect of a drug, chemical, or other medicine that is in addition to its intended effect, especially an effect that is harmful or unpleasant.
- side-glance — a glance directed to the side; an oblique or sideways look: a side-glance of displeasure at her interrupter.
- sideroscope — an apparatus for detecting splinters of iron or steel in the eye.
- sidetracked — any railroad track, other than a siding, auxiliary to the main track.
- siecle d'or — the period of the reign of Louis XIV of France.
- siliconized — (of a material) having silicone added.
- silver disc — (in Britain) an album certified to have sold 60 000 copies or a single certified to have sold 200 000 copies
- 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.
- slickenside — a rock surface that has become more or less polished and striated by slippage along a fault plane.
- snail-paced — slow of pace or motion, like a snail; sluggish.
- 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.
- specialised — to pursue some special line of study, work, etc.; have a specialty: The doctor specializes in gastroenterology.