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11-letter words containing n, e, s, t, c

  • sand-castle — a small castlelike structure made of wet sand, as by children at a beach.
  • sandculture — the hydroponic cultivation of plants in sand.
  • sansculotte — (originally) a revolutionary of the poorer class
  • santa tecla — a city in SW El Salvador, just SW of San Salvador.
  • sao vicente — an island city in SE Brazil.
  • sauk centre — a town in central Minnesota: model for town in Sinclair Lewis's novel Main Street.
  • scatter pin — a woman's small ornamental pin, usually worn with other similar pins on a dress, suit jacket, etc.
  • scatter-gun — a shotgun
  • scatterling — a person with no fixed home; a wanderer; a vagabond
  • scene shift — the changing of scenes during a play
  • scent gland — any of various specialized skin glands, occurring in many kinds of animals, that emit an odor commonly functioning as a social or sexual signal or a defensive weapon.
  • scent spray — perfume that comes in an aerosol bottle
  • schecklaton — a gilded leather used for embroidering jacks
  • schenectady — a city in E New York, on the Mohawk River.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • screen test — film audition
  • screen-test — to give a screen test to: The studio screen-tested 400 children before casting the part.
  • screencraft — the skills and talent involved in writing or making a movie
  • screenshort — a screenshot that is shared on a social media website.
  • 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 best — the next to the best in performance, achievement, craftsmanship, etc.
  • second city — Chicago, Ill.
  • second mate — the officer of a merchant vessel next in command beneath the first mate.
  • 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-best — the next to the best in performance, achievement, craftsmanship, etc.
  • second-feet — a unit of measurement of liquid flow, especially of rivers, equal to one cubic foot per second.
  • second-foot — a unit of measurement of liquid flow, especially of rivers, equal to one cubic foot per second.
  • second-rate — of lesser or minor quality, importance, or the like: a second-rate poet.
  • 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.
  • seroconvert — (of an individual) to produce antibodies specific to, and in response to the presence in the blood of, a particular antigen, such as a virus or vaccine
  • serpentinic — of, relating to, or containing the mineral serpentine
  • shortchange — to give less than the correct change to.
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