11-letter words containing s, c, r, a, p
- screw plate — a metal plate having threaded holes, used for cutting screw threads by hand.
- scriptorial — of or relating to a scriptorium
- sea-poacher — poacher1 (def 2).
- serigraphic — of or pertaining to serigraphy
- service cap — a saucer-shaped uniform cap with a visor, standard in the U.S. Army and Air Force.
- shag carpet — shag pile carpet
- share price — cost of financial stocks
- sheep track — a pathway made by and used by sheep, often in rocky or mountainous terrain, and sometimes followed by hikers
- shoot craps — to play this game
- sir patrick — Norman Bel [bel] /bɛl/ (Show IPA), 1893–1958, U.S. industrial and stage designer and architect.
- skip tracer — an investigator whose job is to locate missing persons, especially debtors.
- skyscraping — of or like a skyscraper; very high: a skyscraping chimney.
- snap course — an academic course that can be passed with a minimum of effort.
- snapperback — the center on the offensive team.
- sociography — the branch of sociology that uses statistical data to describe social phenomena.
- space group — a set of symmetry elements that brings a periodic arrangement of points on a Bravais space lattice to its original position.
- space opera — a television or radio drama or motion picture that is a science-fiction adventure story.
- space probe — Aerospace. an unmanned spacecraft designed to explore the solar system and transmit data back to earth.
- spacefaring — space travel
- spacewalker — a person who manoeuvres in space while outside but attached to a spacecraft
- sparagmatic — denoting a type of Precambrian rock found in Scandinavia
- spatterdock — any of various water lilies of the genus Nuphar, having globular yellow flowers and growing in lakes or sluggish streams, especially N. advena, of the eastern U.S.
- specializer — a person who specializes in something
- spectacular — of or like a spectacle; marked by or given to an impressive, large-scale display.
- spectrality — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
- spectrogram — a representation or photograph of a spectrum.
- specularity — the state of resembling a mirror
- speculatory — a place suitable for observation
- speechcraft — the art of rhetoric
- speechmaker — a person who delivers speeches.
- spermatheca — a small sac or cavity in female or hermaphroditic invertebrates used to store sperm for fertilizing eggs, as in the queen bee.
- spermatoxic — (of a substance) toxic to spermatozoa.
- spermicidal — that kills sperm
- sphragistic — of or relating to seals or signet rings.
- spider crab — any of various crabs of the family Majidae, having long, slender legs and a comparatively small, triangular body.
- spinal cord — the cord of nerve tissue extending through the spinal canal of the spinal column.
- spirit cave — an archaeological site in Thailand that has produced evidence of very early plant domestication in Southeast Asia, dated c7000 b.c.
- 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.
- sporadicity — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- sprite crab — ghost crab.
- stauroscope — an optical instrument for studying the crystal structure of minerals under polarized light
- stench trap — a trap in a sewer that by means of a water seal prevents the upward passage of foul-smelling gases
- streetscape — a pictorial view of a street.
- stump ranch — (in British Columbia) an undeveloped ranch in the bush where animals graze among the stumps of felled trees
- subcapsular — of, in, or like a capsule.
- subscapular — situated beneath or on the deep surface of the scapula, as a muscle.
- subtropical — bordering on the tropics; nearly tropical.
- summer camp — a camp, especially one for children during the summer, providing facilities for sleeping and eating, and usually for handicrafts, sports, etc.
- superactive — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
- superagency — a very large agency, especially a large government agency that oversees smaller ones.