11-letter words containing h, e, r, c, o
- scaramouche — a stock character in commedia dell'arte and farce who is a cowardly braggart, easily beaten and frightened.
- scattershot — delivered over a wide area and at random; generalized and indiscriminate: a scattershot attack on the proposed program.
- scenography — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
- schollander — Donald ("Don") born 1946, U.S. swimmer.
- school year — the months of the year during which school is open and attendance at school is required.
- schorlomite — a mineral that is black in colour and belongs to the garnet group
- schrodinger — Erwin [er-vin] /ˈɛr vɪn/ (Show IPA), 1887–1961, German physicist: Nobel prize 1933.
- sclerophyll — Also, sclerophyllous [skleer-uh-fil-uh s] /ˌsklɪər əˈfɪl əs/ (Show IPA). of, relating to, or exhibiting sclerophylly.
- scotch rose — a rose, Rosa spinosissima, of Eurasia, having pink, white, or yellow flowers.
- screech owl — any of numerous small American owls of the genus Otus, having hornlike tufts of feathers, as O. asio, of eastern North America.
- screen shot — Also called screen capture. a copy or image of what is seen on a computer screen at a given time: Save the screenshot as a graphics file.
- screenshort — a screenshot that is shared on a social media website.
- scrimshoner — a person who makes scrimshaw
- scripholder — a person who owns a scrip or scrips
- scripophile — a person who practices scripophily.
- sea-poacher — poacher1 (def 2).
- sepulchrous — of the nature of a sepulchre
- shcherbakov — a former name (1946–57) of Andropov.
- shear force — Shear force is force that makes one surface of a substance move over another parallel surface.
- sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
- short score — a condensed version of the score for a musical composition, usually written for piano
- shortchange — to give less than the correct change to.
- smokechaser — a person who fights forest fires, especially one with lightweight equipment.
- sothic year — the fixed year of the ancient Egyptians, determined by the heliacal rising of Sirius, and equivalent to 365 days.
- sour cherry — a cherry, Prunus cerasus, characterized by gray bark and the spreading habit of its branches.
- speech form — linguistic form.
- spirochaete — any of various spiral-shaped motile bacteria of the family Spirochaetaceae, certain species, as Treponema, Leptospira, and Borrelia, being pathogenic to humans and other animals, and other species being free-living, saprophytic, or parasitic.
- stenochrome — a printed design made using stenochromy
- 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
- 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.
- stock horse — a horse or pony used in herding cattle.
- stockholder — Also called stockowner. a holder or owner of stock in a corporation.
- stretch out — lie down, sprawl
- subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
- superheroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- superschool — a large school
- switch over — If you switch over when you are watching television, you change to another channel.
- synchoresis — the act or an instance of conceding an argument in order to make a stronger one
- synchromesh — noting or pertaining to a synchronized shifting mechanism.
- synchronise — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.
- synchronize — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.
- tacheometer — a type of theodolite designed for the rapid measurement of distances, elevations, and directions
- tacheometry — the measurement of distance, etc, using a tacheometer
- tachysterol — an isomer of ergosterol, C28H44O, formed during the production of calciferol by the irradiation of ergosterol
- tautochrone — a curve upon which a moving object will reach a certain point at the same time through gravity from whichever point it starts
- tchervonetz — chervonets.
- tcp theorem — the proposition that all the laws of physics are unchanged by the combined operations of charge conjugation (C), space inversion (P), and time reversal (T).
- technicolor — (often lowercase) flamboyant or lurid, as in color, meaning, or detail.
- technocracy — a theory and movement, prominent about 1932, advocating control of industrial resources, reform of financial institutions, and reorganization of the social system, based on the findings of technologists and engineers.