11-letter words containing e, n, c, a, s
- santa tecla — a city in SW El Salvador, just SW of San Salvador.
- sao vicente — an island city in SE Brazil.
- saponaceous — resembling soap; soapy.
- sarcenchyme — the connective tissue of some sponges
- sarus crane — a large, gray crane, Grus antigone, of Asia, having a naked, red head.
- sauk centre — a town in central Minnesota: model for town in Sinclair Lewis's novel Main Street.
- scabbedness — the state or condition of being scabbed; scabbiness
- scaled-down — reduced in level of activity, extent, numbers, etc
- scan design — (electronics) (Or "Scan-In, Scan-Out") A electronic circuit design technique which aims to increase the controllability and observability of a digital logic circuit by incorporating special "scan registers" into the circuit so that they form a scan path. Some of the more common types of scan design include the multiplexed register designs and level-sensitive scan design (LSSD) used extensively by IBM. Boundary scan can be used alone or in combination with either of the above techniques.
- scaremonger — a person who creates or spreads alarming news.
- scatter pin — a woman's small ornamental pin, usually worn with other similar pins on a dress, suit jacket, etc.
- scatter-gun — a shotgun
- scatterling — a person with no fixed home; a wanderer; a vagabond
- scenography — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
- scent gland — any of various specialized skin glands, occurring in many kinds of animals, that emit an odor commonly functioning as a social or sexual signal or a defensive weapon.
- scent spray — perfume that comes in an aerosol bottle
- schecklaton — a gilded leather used for embroidering jacks
- schenectady — a city in E New York, on the Mohawk River.
- schollander — Donald ("Don") born 1946, U.S. swimmer.
- scintillate — to emit sparks.
- scolopendra — a member of a genus of centipedes belonging to the Scolopendridae family
- scopolamine — a colorless, syrupy, water-soluble alkaloid, C 1 7 H 2 1 NO 4 , obtained from certain plants of the nightshade family, used chiefly as a sedative and mydriatic and to alleviate the symptoms of motion sickness.
- scorpaenoid — resembling or related to the family Scorpaenidae.
- scrapepenny — a person who is stingy; a miser
- scrappiness — made up of scraps or of odds and ends; fragmentary; disconnected.
- screamingly — If you say that something is, for example, screamingly funny or screamingly boring, you mean that it is extremely funny or extremely boring.
- screen name — a unique sequence of characters that a person chooses to use for identification purposes when interacting with others online, as in computer games, instant messaging, or forums.
- screen pass — a pass thrown to a receiver who is directly in back of a wall of blockers and who is behind or not far beyond the line of scrimmage.
- screen wash — a fluid that is squirted onto a car windscreen to clean it
- screencraft — the skills and talent involved in writing or making a movie
- screensaver — a program that displays a constantly shifting pattern on a screen when the computer is idle, originally used to prevent damage to the screen through continuous display of the same image but now used primarily for decoration.
- sea captain — the master of a seagoing vessel.
- searchingly — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
- seasickness — nausea and dizziness, sometimes accompanied by vomiting, resulting from the rocking or swaying motion of a vessel in which one is traveling at sea.
- second base — the second in order of the bases from home plate.
- second hand — the hand that indicates the seconds on a clock or watch.
- second mate — the officer of a merchant vessel next in command beneath the first mate.
- second name — law: family name
- second-half — happening in the second half of a game
- second-hand — the hand that indicates the seconds on a clock or watch.
- second-rate — of lesser or minor quality, importance, or the like: a second-rate poet.
- secondarily — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
- secretional — of or relating to secretion
- sedan chair — an enclosed vehicle for one person, borne on poles by two bearers and common during the 17th and 18th centuries.
- self-acting — acting by itself; automatic.
- semanticist — Linguistics. the study of meaning. the study of linguistic development by classifying and examining changes in meaning and form.
- seminomadic — belonging or relating to an ethnic group or people who migrate seasonally and cultivate crops during periods of settlement
- semiotician — the study of signs and symbols as elements of communicative behavior; the analysis of systems of communication, as language, gestures, or clothing.
- seneca lake — a lake in W New York: one of the Finger Lakes. 35 miles (56 km) long.
- sennacherib — died 681 b.c, king of Assyria 705–681.