11-letter words containing i, r, e, n, c
- scrutinizer — to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
- searchingly — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
- second-tier — not in the first rank
- secondarily — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
- secretional — of or relating to secretion
- secure unit — A secure unit is a building or part of a building where dangerous prisoners or violent psychiatric patients are kept.
- sedan chair — an enclosed vehicle for one person, borne on poles by two bearers and common during the 17th and 18th centuries.
- sennacherib — died 681 b.c, king of Assyria 705–681.
- serpentinic — of, relating to, or containing the mineral serpentine
- sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
- sightscreen — a white screen set in line with the wicket as an aid to the batsman in seeing the ball when it is bowled.
- silk-screen — Silk-screen printing is a method of printing patterns onto cloth by forcing paint or dyes through silk or similar material.
- sincereness — free of deceit, hypocrisy, or falseness; earnest: a sincere apology.
- sincerities — freedom from deceit, hypocrisy, or duplicity; probity in intention or in communicating; earnestness.
- 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.
- skillcentre — an institution providing vocational training or retraining for employed or unemployed people
- skin cancer — melanoma: malignant tumour
- skin-search — strip-search.
- slit trench — a narrow trench for one or more persons for protection against enemy fire and fragmentation bombs.
- snickersnee — a knife, especially one used as a weapon.
- 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
- sniperscope — a snooperscope designed for attaching to a rifle or carbine.
- spacefaring — space travel
- spruce pine — a tall coniferous tree, Pinus glabra, of the southeastern U.S., having smooth, gray bark and needles in bundles of two.
- square inch — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one inch on each side; 6.452 square centimeters. 2 , sq. in. Abbreviation: in.
- starchiness — of, relating to, or of the nature of starch.
- stenocardia — angina pectoris, a contraction of the heart or its vessels due to a lack of oxygen, causing severe chest pain
- stenohygric — able to withstand only a narrow range of humidity
- stringpiece — a long, usually horizontal piece of timber, beam, etc., for strengthening, connecting, or supporting a framework.
- superceding — supersede.
- superinduce — to bring in or induce as an added feature, circumstance, etc.; superimpose.
- superinfect — to infect further with an additional infection
- supersonics — the branch of science that deals with supersonic phenomena.
- surgicenter — a surgical facility, not based in a hospital, where minor surgery is performed on an outpatient basis.
- synchoresis — the act or an instance of conceding an argument in order to make a stronger one
- 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.
- synergistic — pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling synergy: a synergistic effect.
- taxi dancer — a girl or woman employed, as by a dance hall, to dance with patrons who pay a fee for each dance or for a set period of time.
- technicolor — (often lowercase) flamboyant or lurid, as in color, meaning, or detail.
- tectibranch — a mollusc of the suborder Tectibranchia (or Tectibranchiata) (order: Opisthobranchia) which includes the sea slugs and sea hares
- telocentric — of or relating to any chromosome or chromatid whose centromere is positioned at its end, creating one chromosome arm. Compare acentric (def 2), acrocentric, metacentric (def 2).
- tent circus — a circus performed in tents rather than in an arena.
- teratogenic — a drug or other substance capable of interfering with the development of a fetus, causing birth defects.
- the cornish — the natives or inhabitants of Cornwall
- the curtain — the end of a scene of a play, opera, etc, marked by the fall or closing of the curtain
- theocentric — having God as the focal point of thoughts, interests, and feelings: theocentric philosophy.
- thermionics — the branch of physics that deals with thermionic phenomena.
- thermocline — a layer of water in an ocean or certain lakes, where the temperature gradient is greater than that of the warmer layer above and the colder layer below.
- thermogenic — causing or pertaining to the production of heat.