11-letter words containing p, c, s, h
- 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
- spell check — to process (a document) with a spell checker; check the spelling of.
- spell-check — to process (a document) with a spell checker; check the spelling of.
- spermatheca — a small sac or cavity in female or hermaphroditic invertebrates used to store sperm for fertilizing eggs, as in the queen bee.
- sphragistic — of or relating to seals or signet rings.
- spinachlike — resembling or characteristic of spinach
- 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.
- stench trap — a trap in a sewer that by means of a water seal prevents the upward passage of foul-smelling gases
- step change — A step change is a sudden or major change in the way that something happens or the way that someone behaves.
- stethoscope — an instrument used in auscultation to convey sounds in the chest or other parts of the body to the ear of the examiner.
- stop chorus — a solo during which the rhythm section plays only the first beat of each phrase of music
- stump ranch — (in British Columbia) an undeveloped ranch in the bush where animals graze among the stumps of felled trees
- subjectship — the state of being a subject or citizen
- suckerpunch — to strike (someone) with an unexpected blow.
- supercharge — to charge with an abundant or excessive amount, as of energy, emotion, or tension.
- supercherie — deception, trickery or an instance thereof
- superchurch — a church housed in an extremely large structure and containing elaborate facilities.
- superheroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- superschool — a large school