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11-letter words containing s, c, i, o, r, h

  • sixth chord — an inversion of a triad in which the second note (next above the root) is in the bass.
  • sociography — the branch of sociology that uses statistical data to describe social phenomena.
  • sothic year — the fixed year of the ancient Egyptians, determined by the heliacal rising of Sirius, and equivalent to 365 days.
  • spirochaete — any of various spiral-shaped motile bacteria of the family Spirochaetaceae, certain species, as Treponema, Leptospira, and Borrelia, being pathogenic to humans and other animals, and other species being free-living, saprophytic, or parasitic.
  • stenohygric — able to withstand only a narrow range of humidity
  • stichometry — the practice of writing a prose text in lines, often of slightly differing lengths, that correspond to units of sense and indicate phrasal rhythms.
  • sub-chronic — constant; habitual; inveterate: a chronic liar.
  • subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
  • subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
  • superheroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
  • switch over — If you switch over when you are watching television, you change to another channel.
  • switchboard — a structural unit on which are mounted switches and instruments necessary to complete telephone circuits manually.
  • symposiarch — the president, director, or master of a symposium.
  • synchoresis — the act or an instance of conceding an argument in order to make a stronger one
  • synchromism — a movement of the early 20th century led by American artists and manifested in their experimentation with nonfigurative or entirely abstract paintings containing shapes and volumes of pure color. Compare Orphism (def 2).
  • synchronise — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.
  • synchronism — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
  • synchronize — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.
  • terpsichore — Classical Mythology. the Muse of dancing and choral song.
  • the cornish — the natives or inhabitants of Cornwall
  • the tropics — that part of the earth's surface between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn; the Torrid Zone
  • thermionics — the branch of physics that deals with thermionic phenomena.
  • thrasonical — boastful; vainglorious.
  • tischendorf — Lobegott Friedrich Konstantin von [loh-buh-gawt free-drikh kawn-stahn-teen fuh n] /ˈloʊ bəˌgɔt ˈfri drɪx ˌkɔn stɑnˈtin fən/ (Show IPA), 1815–74, German Biblical critic.
  • trichinosis — a disease resulting from infestation with Trichinella spiralis, occurring in humans, caused by ingestion of infested, undercooked pork, and characterized by fever, muscle weakness, and diarrhea.
  • tristichous — arranged in three rows.
  • ulotrichous — belonging to a group of people having woolly or crisply curly hair.
  • welsh corgi — one of either of two Welsh breeds of dogs having short legs, erect ears, and a foxlike head. Compare Cardigan (def 2), Pembroke (def 3).
  • whichsoever — Whichever.
  • workaholics — Plural form of workaholic.
  • zincographs — Plural form of zincograph.
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