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11-letter words containing s, a, c, d

  • duster coat — a woman's loose summer coat with wide sleeves and no buttons, popular in the mid-20th century
  • dwarf sumac — a shrub or small tree, Rhus copallina, of the cashew family, native to the eastern U.S., having shiny, pinnate leaves, greenish flowers, and clusters of red, berrylike fruit.
  • dynasticism — a system of government in which the rulers are all drawn from the same family
  • dyscalculia — Severe difficulty in making arithmetical calculations, as a result of brain disorder.
  • dysharmonic — relating to abnormal bone development
  • dyspathetic — characterized by dyspathy
  • dyspeptical — (archaic) dyspeptic.
  • egg custard — sweet custard made with milk and egg and baked
  • eicosanoids — Plural form of eicosanoid.
  • elasticated — (of a garment or material) made elastic by the insertion of rubber thread or tape.
  • elasticised — Simple past tense and past participle of elasticise.
  • elasticized — Simple past tense and past participle of elasticize.
  • elucidators — Plural form of elucidator.
  • emasculated — Simple past tense and past participle of emasculate.
  • encompassed — Simple past tense and past participle of encompass.
  • endoplasmic — (cytology) of, or relating to endoplasm.
  • epidiascope — An optical projector capable of giving images of both opaque and transparent objects.
  • escadrilles — Plural form of escadrille.
  • escape road — a road, usually ending in a pile of sand, provided on a hill for a driver to drive into if his brakes fail or on a bend if he loses control of the turn
  • eviscerated — Disembowel (a person or animal).
  • exceedances — Plural form of exceedance.
  • fanaticised — Simple past tense and past participle of fanaticise.
  • fancy dress — a costume for a ball, masquerade, etc., chosen to please the fancy, usually a costume characteristic of a particular period or place, class of persons, or historical or fictitious character.
  • fancy goods — small decorative gifts; knick-knacks
  • feldspathic — of, relating to, or containing feldspar.
  • feudalistic — the feudal system, or its principles and practices.
  • fiduciaries — Plural form of fiduciary.
  • fiscal drag — the process by which, during inflation, rising incomes draw people into higher tax brackets, so that their real incomes may fall; this acts as a restraint on the expansion of the economy
  • forced sale — a sale held as a result of a judicial order.
  • fratricides — Plural form of fratricide.
  • frescobaldi — Girolamo [jee-raw-lah-maw] /dʒiˈrɔ lɑ mɔ/ (Show IPA), 1583–1643, Italian organist and composer.
  • fresh-faced — having a healthy or ruddy appearance
  • galactoside — A glycoside yielding galactose on hydrolysis.
  • gasconading — extravagant boasting; boastful talk.
  • gatecrashed — Simple past tense and past participle of gatecrash.
  • geodynamics — (used with a singular verb) the science dealing with dynamic processes or forces within the earth.
  • ghost dance — a ritual dance intended to establish communion with the dead, especially such a dance as performed by various messianic western American Indian cults in the late 19th century.
  • glass-faced — having the front or outer surfaces covered with glass.
  • glucosidase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that hydrolyses glucosides.
  • glycosidase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of a glycoside.
  • gob-smacked — utterly astounded; astonished.
  • good graces — If you are in someone's good graces, they are pleased with you.
  • grand-scale — of large proportion, extent, magnitude, etc.: grand-scale efforts; a grand-scale approach.
  • grandnieces — Plural form of grandniece.
  • granduncles — Plural form of granduncle.
  • half-closed — having or forming a boundary or barrier: He was blocked by a closed door. The house had a closed porch.
  • half-second — 1/120 of a minute of time
  • hand scroll — a roll of parchment, paper, copper, or other material, especially one with writing on it: a scroll containing the entire Old Testament.
  • hand-stitch — to stitch or sew by hand.
  • handicrafts — Plural form of handicraft.
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