11-letter words containing s, c, i, r, e
- sanctuarize — to give sanctuary to
- scapigerous — having a scape or leafless stalk
- scar tissue — connective tissue that has contracted and become dense and fibrous.
- scarabaeist — a person who studies the beetle family Scarabaeidae
- scarabaeoid — resembling a scarab.
- 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
- schillerize — to give a schiller to (a crystal) by developing microscopic inclusions along certain planes.
- schlesinger — Arthur Meier [mahy-er] /ˈmaɪ ər/ (Show IPA), 1888–1965, U.S. historian.
- schmierkase — cottage cheese.
- schorlomite — a mineral that is black in colour and belongs to the garnet group
- schrecklich — frightful or horrible
- schrodinger — Erwin [er-vin] /ˈɛr vɪn/ (Show IPA), 1887–1961, German physicist: Nobel prize 1933.
- schwarmerei — excessive enthusiasm or sentimentality.
- schweinfurt — a city in N Bavaria, in S central Germany, on the Main River.
- scissorlike — like scissors; moving, operating, or crossing in a manner suggesting the blades of scissors.
- scissorwise — in a movement or position which imitates scissors
- sclerotitis — scleritis.
- sclerotized — (especially of the cuticle of an arthropod) hardened by the presence of substances other than chitin, as by scleroproteins, waxes, or calcium salts.
- scorpaenoid — resembling or related to the family Scorpaenidae.
- scrappiness — made up of scraps or of odds and ends; fragmentary; disconnected.
- screamingly — If you say that something is, for example, screamingly funny or screamingly boring, you mean that it is extremely funny or extremely boring.
- screen grid — a grid placed between the anode and the control electrode in a vacuum tube, usually maintained at a fixed positive potential.
- screenwrite — (language) A columnar format third generation programming language similar in layout to assembler and used for transaction processing, solely on the Honeywell Bull TPS6 database/transaction management system on their Level 6 DPS6 minicomputers running under the GCOS6 operating system. In the UK it was mainly used by local authorities and the Ministry of Defense. Being proprietary technology, its popularity waned with the introduction of open systems standards, relational databases and fourth generation languages but it is believed that some systems made it through Y2K.
- screw joint — a type of joint that is fastened by means of screws
- screwdriver — a hand tool for turning a screw, consisting of a handle attached to a long, narrow shank, usually of metal, which tapers and flattens out to a tip that fits into the slotted head of a screw.
- scrimshoner — a person who makes scrimshaw
- scrip issue — an issue of free shares distributed pro rata to existing stockholders instead of a dividend.
- scripholder — a person who owns a scrip or scrips
- scripophile — a person who practices scripophily.
- scruffiness — the state of being unkempt or shabby
- scrutinised — to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
- scrutinized — to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
- scrutinizer — to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
- 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.
- scuba diver — sb who dives underwater
- 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.
- second-tier — not in the first rank
- secondarily — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
- secretarial — noting, of, or pertaining to a secretary or a secretary's skills and work: a secretarial school.
- secretariat — the officials or office entrusted with administrative duties, maintaining records, and overseeing or performing secretarial duties, especially for an international organization: the secretariat of the United Nations.
- secretional — of or relating to secretion
- secretively — having or showing a disposition to secrecy; reticent: He seems secretive about his new job.
- secularized — to make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism.
- secure unit — A secure unit is a building or part of a building where dangerous prisoners or violent psychiatric patients are kept.
- sedan chair — an enclosed vehicle for one person, borne on poles by two bearers and common during the 17th and 18th centuries.
- selectorial — of or relating to selections or selectors
- semi-circle — A semi-circle is one half of a circle, or something having the shape of half a circle.
- semispheric — shaped like half a sphere; hemispheric.