11-letter words containing e, a, s, t, r
- salt shaker — a container for salt with a perforated top to allow the salt to be shaken out.
- salt-cellar — a shaker or dish for salt.
- saltchucker — a saltwater angler
- saltirewise — in the direction or manner of a saltire.
- sample rate — (digital signal processing) The number of times an analog signal is measured (sampled) per second. The unit of sample rate is "samples per second". This is often expressed in kiloHertz (kHz). For example, "CD quality" sound has a sample rate of 44 kHz. Compare data rate. See Nyquist frequency.
- sanctioneer — a person who advocates the imposition of sanctions
- sanctuarize — to give sanctuary to
- sand desert — a desert in which the ground is covered in sand
- sand myrtle — an evergreen shrub, Leiophyllum buxifolium, of the heath family, native to the eastern U.S., having simple, leathery leaves and clusters of white or pink flowers.
- sandculture — the hydroponic cultivation of plants in sand.
- santo andre — a city in E Brazil, near São Paulo.
- sapropelite — a foul-smelling mud
- satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- satirizable — able to be satirized or ridiculed
- sauerbraten — a pot roast of beef, marinated before cooking in a mixture of vinegar, sugar, and seasonings.
- sauk centre — a town in central Minnesota: model for town in Sinclair Lewis's novel Main Street.
- scar tissue — connective tissue that has contracted and become dense and fibrous.
- scarabaeist — a person who studies the beetle family Scarabaeidae
- 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.
- scaredy cat — fraidy-cat.
- scaredy-cat — fraidy-cat.
- scarlet cup — a small, fleshy, saucer-shaped fungus, Sarcoscypha coccinea, of the family Sarcoscyphaceae, marked by a scarlet inner surface and white exterior, seen on fallen branches in the spring.
- scarlet hat — a cardinal's hat
- scatter pin — a woman's small ornamental pin, usually worn with other similar pins on a dress, suit jacket, etc.
- scatter rug — a small rug, placed on the floor in front of a chair, under a table, etc.
- scatter-gun — a shotgun
- scatteredly — distributed or occurring at widely spaced and usually irregular intervals: scattered villages; scattered showers.
- scattergood — a spendthrift.
- scattergram — a graphic representation of bivariate data as a set of points in the plane that have Cartesian coordinates equal to corresponding values of the two variates.
- scatterling — a person with no fixed home; a wanderer; a vagabond
- scattershot — delivered over a wide area and at random; generalized and indiscriminate: a scattershot attack on the proposed program.
- scent spray — perfume that comes in an aerosol bottle
- scoutmaster — the leader or officer in charge of a band of scouts.
- scrap metal — discarded metal
- scratchless — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
- screencraft — the skills and talent involved in writing or making a movie
- screw plate — a metal plate having threaded holes, used for cutting screw threads by hand.
- scsi target — (hardware) A SCSI device that executes a command from a SCSI initiator to perform some task. Typically the target is a SCSI peripheral device but the host adapter can also be a target.
- sea feather — any of several anthozoans of the order Gorgonacea, in which the colony assumes a featherlike shape.
- sea leather — the skin of sharks, porpoises, dogfishes, etc., prepared and used for the same purposes as ordinary leather.
- sea serpent — an enormous, imaginary, snakelike or dragonlike marine animal.
- seamstressy — needlework
- search term — Computers. a word or other term used to electronically retrieve data, Web pages, or other information from files, databases, etc.: When you search the shopping website, ads relating to your search terms will appear along with your search results.
- searchlight — a device, usually consisting of a light and reflector, for throwing a beam of light in any direction.
- second-rate — of lesser or minor quality, importance, or the like: a second-rate poet.
- secretarial — noting, of, or pertaining to a secretary or a secretary's skills and work: a secretarial school.
- secretariat — the officials or office entrusted with administrative duties, maintaining records, and overseeing or performing secretarial duties, especially for an international organization: the secretariat of the United Nations.
- secretional — of or relating to secretion
- sedimentary — of, relating to, or of the nature of sediment.
- seditionary — of or relating to sedition; seditious.