11-letter words containing e, u, c, r
- sarus crane — a large, gray crane, Grus antigone, of Asia, having a naked, red head.
- sauce bercy — Bercy.
- saucer dome — a dome having the form of a segment of a sphere, with the center well below the springing line; a shallow dome, as in Roman or Byzantine architecture.
- sauk centre — a town in central Minnesota: model for town in Sinclair Lewis's novel Main Street.
- scaberulous — tending to be scabrous or slightly rough to the touch
- scapigerous — having a scape or leafless stalk
- scar tissue — connective tissue that has contracted and become dense and fibrous.
- scaramouche — a stock character in commedia dell'arte and farce who is a cowardly braggart, easily beaten and frightened.
- 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.
- scatter rug — a small rug, placed on the floor in front of a chair, under a table, etc.
- scatter-gun — a shotgun
- schweinfurt — a city in N Bavaria, in S central Germany, on the Main River.
- sclerocauly — the feature of having a hard, dry stem
- scoundrelly — having the character of a scoundrel; unscrupulous; villainous.
- scoutmaster — the leader or officer in charge of a band of scouts.
- scrap value — what sth is worth for recycling or reuse
- screen dump — the act or process of printing or saving the graphical or textual data displayed on a computer screen.
- screw auger — an auger having a helical outer surface suggesting a screw thread.
- scrip issue — an issue of free shares distributed pro rata to existing stockholders instead of a dividend.
- scrub nurse — a nurse specially trained to assist surgeons in the operating room and serving as part of the surgically clean medical team handling instruments during an operation.
- scruffiness — the state of being unkempt or shabby
- scrupleless — a moral or ethical consideration or standard that acts as a restraining force or inhibits certain actions.
- scrutinised — to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
- scrutinized — to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
- scrutinizer — to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
- scuba diver — sb who dives underwater
- sculduddery — obscene behavior; lewdness.
- sculduggery — skulduggery.
- scuppernong — a silvery amber-green variety of muscadine grape.
- secularized — to make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism.
- secure unit — A secure unit is a building or part of a building where dangerous prisoners or violent psychiatric patients are kept.
- sepulchrous — of the nature of a sepulchre
- sericterium — a silk-producing gland in a silkworm
- sericulture — the raising of silk worms for the production of raw silk.
- service bus — a public bus with a regular route
- sharksucker — any of several remoras, as Echeneis naucrates, usually found attached to sharks.
- snap course — an academic course that can be passed with a minimum of effort.
- sole-source — designating a company contracted, without competition, to be the sole supplier of a product or service, as a firm having an exclusive contract for certain military technology.
- soup course — a part of a meal when soup is served
- sour cherry — a cherry, Prunus cerasus, characterized by gray bark and the spreading habit of its branches.
- source book — an original writing, as a document, record, or diary, that supplies an authoritative basis for future writing, study, evaluation, etc.
- source code — program instructions that must be translated by a compiler, interpreter, or assembler into object code before execution.
- space group — a set of symmetry elements that brings a periodic arrangement of points on a Bravais space lattice to its original position.
- spectacular — of or like a spectacle; marked by or given to an impressive, large-scale display.
- specularity — the state of resembling a mirror
- speculatory — a place suitable for observation
- sperm count — the number of spermatozoa in an amount of semen, used as an indication of a man's fertility
- spice route — an ancient trade route followed by merchants, importers and exporters trading in exotic spices such as cloves and cinnamon
- spruce beer — a fermented beverage made with spruce leaves and twigs, or an extract from them.
- spruce pine — a tall coniferous tree, Pinus glabra, of the southeastern U.S., having smooth, gray bark and needles in bundles of two.