11-letter words containing s, c, h, i
- scholarship — learning; knowledge acquired by study; the academic attainments of a scholar.
- school life — the period of your life that you spend at school
- school milk — (formerly, in Britain) a third of a pint of milk, originally provided free by the local education authority to all young pupils, then later given only to children who passed a needs or means test
- school ship — a vessel used in training students for nautical careers.
- school time — the period of the day or year when children are at school
- school trip — educational outing
- schoolchild — a child attending school.
- schoolgoing — the act of going to school
- schoonschip — (mathematics, tool) (From the Dutch for "beautiful ship" or "clean ship") A program for symbolic mathematics, especially High Energy Physics, written by M. Veltman of CERN in 1964. Schoonschip only does algebra, no derivatives. It was implemented originally in CDC 6600 and CDC 7600 assembly language and currently in 680x0 assembly language. Runs on Amiga, Atari ST, Sun-3 and NeXT. It was once maintained by David Williams at the University of Michigan Physics Department.
- schorlomite — a mineral that is black in colour and belongs to the garnet group
- schottische — a round dance resembling the polka.
- schrecklich — frightful or horrible
- schrödinbug — (jargon, programming) /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
- schrodinger — Erwin [er-vin] /ˈɛr vɪn/ (Show IPA), 1887–1961, German physicist: Nobel prize 1933.
- schuschnigg — Kurt von [kurt von;; German koort fuh n] /kɜrt vɒn;; German kurt fən/ (Show IPA) (1897–1977), Austrian statesman in the U.S.: Chancellor of Austria 1934–38.
- schwarmerei — excessive enthusiasm or sentimentality.
- schweinfurt — a city in N Bavaria, in S central Germany, on the Main River.
- scopophilia — the obtaining of sexual pleasure by looking at nude bodies, erotic photographs, etc.
- scopophilic — the obtaining of sexual pleasure by looking at nude bodies, erotic photographs, etc.
- scopophobia — the fear of being observed
- scorchingly — in a scorching manner
- scotch mist — a combination of mist or fog and drizzle, occurring frequently in Scotland and parts of England.
- scotch pine — a pine, Pinus sylvestris, of Eurasia, having a reddish trunk and twisted, bluish-green needles.
- scotophilic — living and flourishing in darkness.
- scotophobin — a peptide isolated from the brains of rats conditioned to avoid darkness, alleged to induce a dark-avoidance response in untrained rats, mice, and other animals.
- scots-irish — Scotch-Irish
- scratch hit — a batted ball, usually poorly hit, barely enabling the batter to reach base safely: a scratch hit off the end of the bat.
- scratch wig — a short wig, especially one that covers only part of the head.
- scrimshoner — a person who makes scrimshaw
- scripholder — a person who owns a scrip or scrips
- scripophile — a person who practices scripophily.
- scripophily — the collecting by hobbyists of old stock certificates and bonds that have no intrinsic value other than their aesthetic appeal or relative rarity.
- scyphistoma — a stage in the life cycle of a jellyfish or other scyphozoan when it is fixed in place and reproduces asexually to produce free-swimming medusas.
- 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.
- secchi disk — an opaque, white or black-and-white disk used to measure the cloudiness or turbidity of ocean water by the point at which it is no longer visible from the surface.
- sedan chair — an enclosed vehicle for one person, borne on poles by two bearers and common during the 17th and 18th centuries.
- semispheric — shaped like half a sphere; hemispheric.
- sennacherib — died 681 b.c, king of Assyria 705–681.
- serigraphic — of or pertaining to serigraphy
- seychellois — a native or inhabitant of Seychelles.
- shabby chic — Shabby Chic is a style of decorating the inside of a house in which the furniture and house look slightly used or old in a way that is attractive.
- shamanistic — the animistic religion of northern Asia, embracing a belief in powerful spirits that can be influenced only by shamans.
- share price — cost of financial stocks
- sheet music — music printed on unbound sheets of paper.
- shellacking — lac that has been purified and formed into thin sheets, used for making varnish.
- sheriffwick — shrievalty.
- sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
- shipwrecked — the destruction or loss of a ship, as by sinking.
- shirtjacket — a jacket styled like a shirt