11-letter words containing s, a, r, d
- rock steady — the style of vocalized Jamaican popular music that succeeded ska and preceded reggae in the 1960s, influenced by American soul music and having a more upbeat tempo with emphasis on electric bass and guitar rather than on horns.
- rolled oats — oat grains that have been flattened under rollers
- roman shade — a window shade that, when raised, is drawn up into a series of concertina folds.
- rose garden — where roses are grown
- rose madder — a pigment derived from anthraquinone and hydrated oxide of aluminum, characterized chiefly by its reddish color and permanence: used in painting. Compare madder lake (def 2).
- ross island — an island in the W Ross Sea, off the coast of Victoria Land: part of the Ross Dependency; location of Mt. Erebus.
- round steak — a steak cut from directly above the hind leg of beef.
- ruda slaska — a city in S Poland, NW of Katowice.
- rush candle — a candle made from a dried, partly peeled rush that has been dipped in grease.
- saccharated — sweetened
- sacred ibis — an African ibis, Threskiornis aethiopica, having a black, naked head and neck and white and black plumage, venerated by the ancient Egyptians.
- sacred nine — the Muses.
- sacred site — a place of great significance
- sacred writ — Scripture.
- saddle horn — horn (def 19).
- saddle roof — curved covering for a building
- saddle sore — an irritation or sore on a horse caused by the rubbing of a poorly adjusted saddle.
- saddle-sore — an irritation or sore on a horse caused by the rubbing of a poorly adjusted saddle.
- saddle-tree — the frame of a saddle.
- safe period — an interval of the menstrual cycle when fertilization is considered to be least likely, usually a number of days prior and subsequent to the onset of menstruation.
- sailboarder — windsurfer
- salad cream — Salad cream is a pale-yellow creamy sauce that you eat with salad.
- salad green — a leafy green vegetable, as lettuce, watercress, or escarole, served raw as or in a salad.
- sales drive — a period of events or activities aimed to promote sales of a particular product or services
- saline drip — the usually intravenous drop-by-drop administration of an isotonic solution of sodium chloride in distilled water
- salsa verde — Mexican Cookery, Latin-American Cookery. a green sauce of tomatillos, chili peppers, cilantro, garlic, and onion.
- salvadorian — El Salvador.
- san leandro — a city in W California.
- sand desert — a desert in which the ground is covered in sand
- sand dollar — any of various flat, disklike sea urchins, as Mellita testudinata or Echinarachnius parma, that live on sandy bottoms off the coasts of the U.S.
- sand grouse — any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young.
- sand hopper — beach flea.
- sand lizard — a common lizard, Lacerta agilis, of Europe and central Asia.
- sand martin — the bank swallow.
- sand myrtle — an evergreen shrub, Leiophyllum buxifolium, of the heath family, native to the eastern U.S., having simple, leathery leaves and clusters of white or pink flowers.
- sand-groper — a native of the arid region of Western Australia.
- sand-struck — (of bricks) made with a mold lined with sand to permit freeing.
- sandculture — the hydroponic cultivation of plants in sand.
- sandringham — a village in N Norfolk, England: site of Sandringham House, Royal Family mansion.
- santo andre — a city in E Brazil, near São Paulo.
- sap orchard — sugarbush (def 2).
- sarcodinian — belonging or pertaining to the protist phylum Sarcodina, comprising protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopodia.
- sarcoidosis — a disease of unknown cause, characterized by granulomatous tubercles of the skin, lymph nodes, lungs, eyes, and other structures.
- sardonicism — characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering: a sardonic grin.
- saucer dome — a dome having the form of a segment of a sphere, with the center well below the springing line; a shallow dome, as in Roman or Byzantine architecture.
- sauropsidan — relating to the Sauropsida or animals belonging to the Sauriodea group in Huxley's classification
- scarabaeoid — resembling a scarab.
- scaredy cat — fraidy-cat.
- scaredy-cat — fraidy-cat.
- scarf cloud — pileus (def 3).