11-letter words containing i, n, s, e, c, t
- rescription — a reply or answering of a letter
- reselection — an act or instance of selecting or the state of being selected; choice.
- resistencia — a city in NE Argentina, on the Paraná River.
- restriction — something that restricts; a restrictive condition or regulation; limitation.
- resuscitant — a person or thing that resuscitates
- retinoscope — an apparatus that determines the refractive power of the eye by observing the lights and shadows on the pupil when a mirror illumines the retina; skiascope.
- retinoscopy — an objective method of determining the refractive error of an eye.
- revivescent — reviving
- reviviscent — the act or state of being revived; revival; reanimation.
- romanticise — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
- sanctioneer — a person who advocates the imposition of sanctions
- sanctuarize — to give sanctuary to
- sao vicente — an island city in SE Brazil.
- scatter pin — a woman's small ornamental pin, usually worn with other similar pins on a dress, suit jacket, etc.
- scatterling — a person with no fixed home; a wanderer; a vagabond
- scene shift — the changing of scenes during a play
- schweinfurt — a city in N Bavaria, in S central Germany, on the Main River.
- scientistic — characterized by or having an exaggerated belief in the principles and methods of science.
- 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
- scintillate — to emit sparks.
- scotch pine — a pine, Pinus sylvestris, of Eurasia, having a reddish trunk and twisted, bluish-green needles.
- screenwrite — (language) A columnar format third generation programming language similar in layout to assembler and used for transaction processing, solely on the Honeywell Bull TPS6 database/transaction management system on their Level 6 DPS6 minicomputers running under the GCOS6 operating system. In the UK it was mainly used by local authorities and the Ministry of Defense. Being proprietary technology, its popularity waned with the introduction of open systems standards, relational databases and fourth generation languages but it is believed that some systems made it through Y2K.
- screw joint — a type of joint that is fastened by means of screws
- 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.
- sea captain — the master of a seagoing vessel.
- second city — Chicago, Ill.
- second unit — an additional crew on a film production, usually used at a second location for filming crowd scenes, exteriors, and other shots that do not require the principal actors.
- second-tier — not in the first rank
- secretional — of or relating to secretion
- section off — If an area is sectioned off, it is separated by a wall, fence, or other barrier from the surrounding area.
- secure unit — A secure unit is a building or part of a building where dangerous prisoners or violent psychiatric patients are kept.
- 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.
- semiotician — the study of signs and symbols as elements of communicative behavior; the analysis of systems of communication, as language, gestures, or clothing.
- senectitude — the last stage of life; old age.
- septic tank — a tank in which solid organic sewage is decomposed and purified by anaerobic bacteria.
- serpentinic — of, relating to, or containing the mineral serpentine
- sightscreen — a white screen set in line with the wicket as an aid to the batsman in seeing the ball when it is bowled.
- significate — something signified
- simethicone — an active ingredient in many antacid preparations that causes small mucus-entrapped air bubbles in the intestines to coalesce into larger bubbles that are more easily passed.
- sincerities — freedom from deceit, hypocrisy, or duplicity; probity in intention or in communicating; earnestness.
- singlestick — a short, heavy stick.
- singletrack — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
- sketchiness — like a sketch; giving only outlines or essentials. Synonyms: cursory, rough, meager, crude.
- skillcentre — an institution providing vocational training or retraining for employed or unemployed people
- skin effect — the phenomenon in which an alternating current tends to concentrate in the outer layer of a conductor, caused by the self-induction of the conductor and resulting in increased resistance.
- slit trench — a narrow trench for one or more persons for protection against enemy fire and fragmentation bombs.
- snickometer — a device, which uses sound waves recorded by the stump microphone, employed by TV commentators to determine whether or not a batsman has made contact with the ball