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11-letter words containing r, o, s, e, t

  • spice route — an ancient trade route followed by merchants, importers and exporters trading in exotic spices such as cloves and cinnamon
  • spinsterdom — the state of being a spinster
  • 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.
  • sponge tree — huisache.
  • spore fruit — a spore-bearing structure, as an ascoscarp; sporocarp.
  • spore print — the pattern produced by placing the cap of a mushroom on a piece of paper and allowing the spores to fall
  • sports desk — the editorial section of a newspaper, television or radio programme, etc that deals with sports news
  • sports page — newspaper page carrying sports results
  • sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation
  • spot market — a market in which commodities, as grain, gold, or crude oil, are dealt in for cash and immediate delivery (distinguished from futures market).
  • spot strike — a labor strike by a local branch of a union.
  • spot survey — a survey taken immediately and at random
  • spotted ray — any of various species of ray with irregular markings on the back
  • square foot — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one foot on each side; 0.0929 square meters. 2 , sq. ft. Abbreviation: ft.
  • square knot — a common knot in which the ends come out alongside of the standing parts.
  • square root — a quantity of which a given quantity is the square: The quantities +6 and −6 are square roots of 36 since (+6)×(+6)=36 and (−6)×(−6)=36.
  • square-toed — with the toes squared off
  • square-toes — an old-fashioned or strait-laced person.
  • st.-leonard — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada: suburb of Montreal.
  • stable door — a door with an upper and lower leaf that may be opened separately
  • stactometer — stalagmometer.
  • stadiometer — an instrument that measures the length of curves, dashes, etc, by running a toothed wheel along them
  • stadtholder — stadholder.
  • stake horse — a horse that is regularly entered in stake races.
  • stakeholder — the holder of the stakes of a wager.
  • staktometer — an instrument for counting drops of liquid, consisting of a glass tube with a hollow bulb in it and one narrow end with a small opening
  • stallholder — A stallholder is a person who sells goods at a stall in a market.
  • statehooder — a person who supports or advocates the attainment of statehood for a territory, colony, or the like, especially for Puerto Rico.
  • stationer's — a shop which sells stationery
  • status zero — the condition of young people who are out of school but not in further education or training, permanently or regularly out of work, and dropping out of the mainstream of society
  • stauroscope — an optical instrument for studying the crystal structure of minerals under polarized light
  • steam organ — calliope (def 1).
  • steam radio — radio, seen as old-fashioned in comparison with television
  • steamroller — a heavy steam-powered vehicle having a roller for crushing, compacting, or leveling materials used for a road or the like.
  • stearoptene — the oxygenated solid part of an essential oil (opposed to eleoptene).
  • steatorrhea — the presence of excess fat in the stools, usually caused by disease of the pancreas or intestine, and characterized by chronic diarrhea and weight loss.
  • steelworker — a person employed in the process of manufacturing steel and steel products.
  • steganogram — a coded message
  • stegosaurus — any of a suborder (Stegosauria) of large ornithischian dinosaurs of the Upper Jurassic having a small head and heavy bony plates with sharp spikes down the backbone
  • stellarator — an experimental plasma-physics device in which magnetic fields confine the plasma within a tube shaped like a figure eight.
  • stenocardia — angina pectoris, a contraction of the heart or its vessels due to a lack of oxygen, causing severe chest pain
  • stenochrome — a printed design made using stenochromy
  • stenochromy — the art of printing designs made of more than one colour using a single impression
  • stenography — the art of writing in shorthand.
  • stenohygric — able to withstand only a narrow range of humidity
  • stentorious — stentorian.
  • step reebok — a set of aerobic exercises designed to improve the cardiovascular system, which consists of stepping on and off a special box of adjustable height
  • step rocket — a multistage rocket that discards burned-out stages.
  • stepbrother — one's stepfather's son or stepmother's son by a previous marriage.
  • stereobatic — relating to or resembling a stereobate
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