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11-letter words containing s, a, i, n, t

  • salvational — the act of saving or protecting from harm, risk, loss, destruction, etc.
  • samuel ting — Samuel C(hao) C(hung) [chou choo ng] /tʃaʊ tʃʊŋ/ (Show IPA), born 1936, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1976.
  • san antonio — a city in S Texas: site of the Alamo.
  • san jacinto — a river in E Texas, flowing SE to Galveston Bay: Texans defeated Mexicans near the mouth of this river 1836.
  • sanctioneer — a person who advocates the imposition of sanctions
  • sanctioning — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
  • sanctuarize — to give sanctuary to
  • sand martin — the bank swallow.
  • santa maria — (italics) the flagship used by Columbus when he made his first voyage of discovery to America in 1492.
  • sao vicente — an island city in SE Brazil.
  • satin glass — an American art glassware having colored glass set into indentations in a thickness of opaque glass, the whole covered with clear glass and etched slightly with acid.
  • satin weave — one of the basic weave structures in which the filling threads are interlaced with the warp at widely separated intervals, producing the effect of an unbroken surface.
  • satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • satisficing — the act of satisficing
  • saturnalian — (sometimes used with a plural verb) the festival of Saturn, celebrated in December in ancient Rome as a time of unrestrained merrymaking.
  • saturninity — sluggish in temperament; gloomy; taciturn.
  • saxophonist — musician who plays saxophone
  • scambaiting — the practice of pretending to fall for fraudulent online schemes in order to waste the time of the perpetrators
  • scarf joint — a joint in which two timbers or other structural members are fitted together with long end laps of various forms and held in place with bolts, straps, keys, fishplates, etc., to resist tension or compression.
  • scarlatinal — scarlet fever.
  • scatter pin — a woman's small ornamental pin, usually worn with other similar pins on a dress, suit jacket, etc.
  • scatterling — a person with no fixed home; a wanderer; a vagabond
  • schizanthus — any of several plants of the genus Schizanthus, native to Chile, having numerous variously colored flowers resembling small orchids.
  • scintillant — scintillating; sparkling.
  • scintillate — to emit sparks.
  • sea bathing — the activity of swimming in the sea
  • sea captain — the master of a seagoing vessel.
  • sealed unit — a hard disk that is permanently sealed to prevent damage to the read/write head
  • seasonality — the state or quality of being seasonal or dependent on the seasons: the seasonality of Halloween costumes.
  • secretional — of or relating to secretion
  • sedimentary — of, relating to, or of the nature of sediment.
  • seditionary — of or relating to sedition; seditious.
  • segregation — the act or practice of segregating; a setting apart or separation of people or things from others or from the main body or group: gender segregation in some fundamentalist religions.
  • seismonasty — a nastic movement in response to shock, esp the rapid folding of the leaflets of the sensitive plant due to changes in turgor pressure caused by vibration
  • self-acting — acting by itself; automatic.
  • self-hating — harbouring feelings of self-hatred
  • semanticist — Linguistics. the study of meaning. the study of linguistic development by classifying and examining changes in meaning and form.
  • seminatural — partly natural and partly cultivated
  • semiotician — the study of signs and symbols as elements of communicative behavior; the analysis of systems of communication, as language, gestures, or clothing.
  • sempiternal — everlasting; eternal.
  • senate bill — a proposed new law introduced for debate before the upper chamber of the legislature in, for example, the US, Canada, Australia, etc
  • senatorship — the office or position of a senator
  • sensational — producing or designed to produce a startling effect, strong reaction, intense interest, etc., especially by exaggerated, superficial, or lurid elements: a sensational novel.
  • sentimental — expressive of or appealing to sentiment, especially the tender emotions and feelings, as love, pity, or nostalgia: a sentimental song.
  • septenarius — a verse consisting of seven feet, usually printed in two lines: used especially in Latin poems.
  • septic tank — a tank in which solid organic sewage is decomposed and purified by anaerobic bacteria.
  • septivalent — having a valence of seven; heptavalent.
  • serrulation — serrulate condition or form.
  • sertularian — a type of hydroid that forms stiff, feathery colonies in which the cups holding the zooids are sessile.
  • set against — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
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