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11-letter words containing h, p, c

  • sarcophagus — a stone coffin, especially one bearing sculpture, inscriptions, etc., often displayed as a monument.
  • scape wheel — escape wheel.
  • scenography — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
  • sceuophylax — a keeper of sacred vessels
  • 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.
  • schizopodal — pertaining to a split-foot or appendage
  • scholarship — learning; knowledge acquired by study; the academic attainments of a scholar.
  • school ship — a vessel used in training students for nautical careers.
  • school trip — educational outing
  • schoonschip — (mathematics, tool)   (From the Dutch for "beautiful ship" or "clean ship") A program for symbolic mathematics, especially High Energy Physics, written by M. Veltman of CERN in 1964. Schoonschip only does algebra, no derivatives. It was implemented originally in CDC 6600 and CDC 7600 assembly language and currently in 680x0 assembly language. Runs on Amiga, Atari ST, Sun-3 and NeXT. It was once maintained by David Williams at the University of Michigan Physics Department.
  • schwarzkopf — Elisabeth, 1915–2006, German soprano, born in Poland.
  • sclerophyll — Also, sclerophyllous [skleer-uh-fil-uh s] /ˌsklɪər əˈfɪl əs/ (Show IPA). of, relating to, or exhibiting sclerophylly.
  • scopophilia — the obtaining of sexual pleasure by looking at nude bodies, erotic photographs, etc.
  • scopophilic — the obtaining of sexual pleasure by looking at nude bodies, erotic photographs, etc.
  • scopophobia — the fear of being observed
  • scotch pine — a pine, Pinus sylvestris, of Eurasia, having a reddish trunk and twisted, bluish-green needles.
  • scotch snap — a rhythmic pattern consisting of a short note followed by a long one
  • scotch tape — clear adhesive tape
  • scotch-tape — to fasten or mend with Scotch tape.
  • scotophilic — living and flourishing in darkness.
  • scotophobin — a peptide isolated from the brains of rats conditioned to avoid darkness, alleged to induce a dark-avoidance response in untrained rats, mice, and other animals.
  • scratch pad — a pad of paper used for jotting down ideas, informal notes, preliminary writing, etc.
  • scripholder — a person who owns a scrip or scrips
  • scripophile — a person who practices scripophily.
  • scripophily — the collecting by hobbyists of old stock certificates and bonds that have no intrinsic value other than their aesthetic appeal or relative rarity.
  • scyphistoma — a stage in the life cycle of a jellyfish or other scyphozoan when it is fixed in place and reproduces asexually to produce free-swimming medusas.
  • sea-poacher — poacher1 (def 2).
  • self-speech — the faculty or power of speaking; oral communication; ability to express one's thoughts and emotions by speech sounds and gesture: Losing her speech made her feel isolated from humanity.
  • semispheric — shaped like half a sphere; hemispheric.
  • sepulchrous — of the nature of a sepulchre
  • serigraphic — of or pertaining to serigraphy
  • shag carpet — shag pile carpet
  • share price — cost of financial stocks
  • sheep track — a pathway made by and used by sheep, often in rocky or mountainous terrain, and sometimes followed by hikers
  • shelf space — amount of room on shelves
  • shipwrecked — the destruction or loss of a ship, as by sinking.
  • shoot craps — to play this game
  • slip stitch — a sewing stitch for securing hems, etc, in which only two or three threads of the material are caught up by the needle each time, so that the stitches are nearly invisible from the right side
  • slip-stitch — a loose stitch taken between two layers of fabric, as on a facing or hem, so as to be invisible on the right side or outside surface, used in stoating.
  • sociography — the branch of sociology that uses statistical data to describe social phenomena.
  • sociopathic — a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
  • sophistical — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
  • spaceflight — the flying of manned or unmanned spacecraft into or in outer space.
  • spathaceous — of the nature of or resembling a spathe.
  • speech form — linguistic form.
  • speechcraft — the art of rhetoric
  • speechifier — to make a speech or speeches; harangue.
  • speechmaker — a person who delivers speeches.
  • speed check — a method of checking the speed at which vehicles are travelling, used by police
  • speed chess — a form of chess in which each player's game is limited to a total stipulated time, usually half an hour; the first player to exceed the time limit loses
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