11-letter words containing s, c, a, g
- scaffoldage — a scaffold or scaffolding
- scaffolding — a temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the erection, repair, or decoration of a building.
- scambaiting — the practice of pretending to fall for fraudulent online schemes in order to waste the time of the perpetrators
- scamblingly — in a scambling, noisy, or intrusive manner
- scan design — (electronics) (Or "Scan-In, Scan-Out") A electronic circuit design technique which aims to increase the controllability and observability of a digital logic circuit by incorporating special "scan registers" into the circuit so that they form a scan path. Some of the more common types of scan design include the multiplexed register designs and level-sensitive scan design (LSSD) used extensively by IBM. Boundary scan can be used alone or in combination with either of the above techniques.
- scapigerous — having a scape or leafless stalk
- scarborough — a seaport in North Yorkshire, in NE England.
- scaremonger — a person who creates or spreads alarming news.
- scatter rug — a small rug, placed on the floor in front of a chair, under a table, etc.
- scatter-gun — a shotgun
- scattergood — a spendthrift.
- scattergram — a graphic representation of bivariate data as a set of points in the plane that have Cartesian coordinates equal to corresponding values of the two variates.
- scatterling — a person with no fixed home; a wanderer; a vagabond
- scenography — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
- scent gland — any of various specialized skin glands, occurring in many kinds of animals, that emit an odor commonly functioning as a social or sexual signal or a defensive weapon.
- scratch wig — a short wig, especially one that covers only part of the head.
- scrawlingly — in a scrawling manner
- screamingly — If you say that something is, for example, screamingly funny or screamingly boring, you mean that it is extremely funny or extremely boring.
- screw auger — an auger having a helical outer surface suggesting a screw thread.
- scsi target — (hardware) A SCSI device that executes a command from a SCSI initiator to perform some task. Typically the target is a SCSI peripheral device but the host adapter can also be a target.
- sea cabbage — a brown alga, Hedophyllum sessile, of the North Pacific, characterized by a compact mass of fronds resembling a cabbage.
- searchingly — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
- searchlight — a device, usually consisting of a light and reflector, for throwing a beam of light in any direction.
- seismic gap — the part of an active fault that has experienced little or no seismic activity for a long period, indicating the buildup of stresses that are useful in predicting earthquakes.
- self-acting — acting by itself; automatic.
- serigraphic — of or pertaining to serigraphy
- serological — the science dealing with the immunological properties and actions of serum.
- shag carpet — shag pile carpet
- shellacking — lac that has been purified and formed into thin sheets, used for making varnish.
- shortchange — to give less than the correct change to.
- sick-making — making one feel jealous
- side glance — a look sideways at someone or something
- side-glance — a glance directed to the side; an oblique or sideways look: a side-glance of displeasure at her interrupter.
- significant — important; of consequence.
- significate — something signified
- singletrack — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
- skyscraping — of or like a skyscraper; very high: a skyscraping chimney.
- slacklining — the activity of walking across a narrow line of synthetic webbing hung slackly above the ground
- slag cement — a cement composed of about 80 percent granulated slag and about 20 percent hydrated lime.
- sling chair — any of several varieties of chairs having a seat and back formed from a single sheet of canvas, leather, or the like, hanging loosely in a frame.
- slot racing — the activity of racing slot cars.
- slow-acting — working or acting slowly, not immediately
- smoking car — smoker (def 2a).
- snatchingly — in a snatching manner
- socializing — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- sociography — the branch of sociology that uses statistical data to describe social phenomena.
- sockdolager — something unusually large, heavy, etc.
- somatogenic — developing from somatic cells.
- space group — a set of symmetry elements that brings a periodic arrangement of points on a Bravais space lattice to its original position.
- space stage — a stage set, often limited to an arrangement of ramps and platforms, in which actors and set pieces are spotlighted against the bare background of a dark or black cyclorama.