11-letter words containing e, c, t, y
- receptivity — having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
- reciprocity — a reciprocal state or relation.
- recurrently — that recurs; occurring or appearing again, especially repeatedly or periodically.
- reductively — of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge: an urgent need for reductive measures.
- rejectingly — in a rejecting way or manner
- reluctantly — unwilling; disinclined: a reluctant candidate.
- reluctivity — the tendency of a magnetic circuit to conduct magnetic flux, equal to the reciprocal of the permeability of the circuit.
- respectably — worthy of respect or esteem; estimable; worthy: a respectable citizen.
- retinoscopy — an objective method of determining the refractive error of an eye.
- rheumaticky — affected with rheumatism
- rock beauty — a gold and black butterflyfish, Holocanthus tricolor, ranging from the West Indies to Brazil.
- rock steady — the style of vocalized Jamaican popular music that succeeded ska and preceded reggae in the 1960s, influenced by American soul music and having a more upbeat tempo with emphasis on electric bass and guitar rather than on horns.
- safety cage — A safety cage is a rigid part of the body of a vehicle that surrounds the passenger compartment and protects passengers during a crash.
- safety lock — a lock designed to prevent picking.
- satay sauce — a sauce made from peanuts
- 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.
- scatteredly — distributed or occurring at widely spaced and usually irregular intervals: scattered villages; scattered showers.
- scent spray — perfume that comes in an aerosol bottle
- schenectady — a city in E New York, on the Mohawk River.
- schizophyte — any of the Schizophyta, a group of organisms comprising the schizomycetes and the schizophyceous algae, characterized by a simple structure and reproduction by simple fission or spores.
- scientology — the philosophy of the Church of Scientology, a nondenominational movement founded in the US in the 1950s, which emphasizes self-knowledge as a means of realizing full spiritual potential
- sclerectomy — excision of part of the sclera.
- second city — Chicago, Ill.
- secretively — having or showing a disposition to secrecy; reticent: He seems secretive about his new job.
- seductively — tending to seduce; enticing; beguiling; captivating: a seductive smile.
- selectively — having the function or power of selecting; making a selection.
- selectivity — the state or quality of being selective.
- sister city — Sister cities are cities in different countries that have formally established a special relationship with each other involving, for example, cultural and sports events.
- skeptically — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
- skyrocketed — a rocket firework that ascends into the air and explodes at a height, usually in a brilliant array of sparks of one or more colors.
- soccer city — a large football stadium in South Africa, in the Soweto area of Johannesburg; headquarters of the South African Football Association
- solenocytes — a type of long, narrow, flagellated cell that functions in excretion of nitrogenous wastes and occurs in a variety of organisms, including certain annelids and mollusks.
- sothic year — the fixed year of the ancient Egyptians, determined by the heliacal rising of Sirius, and equivalent to 365 days.
- specificity — the quality or state of being specific.
- spectrality — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
- spectrology — the study of ghosts, phantoms, or apparitions.
- specularity — the state of resembling a mirror
- speculatory — a place suitable for observation
- splenectomy — excision or removal of the spleen.
- stanley cup — a trophy emblematic since 1926 of the championship of the National Hockey League, composed of Canadian and U.S. professional teams.
- steatopygic — extreme accumulation of fat on and about the buttocks, especially of women.
- stenochromy — the art of printing designs made of more than one colour using a single impression
- stenohygric — able to withstand only a narrow range of humidity
- stereoscopy — the study of the stereoscope and its techniques.
- stereotypic — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
- stichometry — the practice of writing a prose text in lines, often of slightly differing lengths, that correspond to units of sense and indicate phrasal rhythms.
- stick style — a style in mid-Victorian American wooden architecture characterized by the use of vertical board siding with battens or grids of boards over horizontal siding to express the framing beneath.
- sticky tape — adhesive strip