11-letter words containing s, h, o, r, t, c
- proctorship — a person appointed to keep watch over students at examinations.
- prosthetics — an artificial body part; a prosthesis: Hundreds of amputees volunteered to test the new prosthetics.
- psychometer — a device for measuring mental or psychological activity
- psychometry — Psychology. psychometrics.
- psychomotor — of or relating to a response involving both motor and psychological components.
- reject shop — a shop that sells damaged or imperfect products that cannot be sold at the full price
- rock thrush — any of several Old World thrushes of the genus Monticola, usually having bluish plumage, especially M. saxatilis, of Europe.
- rocket ship — a rocket-propelled aircraft or spacecraft.
- rope stitch — (in embroidery) a stitch formed from the entwining of stitches.
- saprophytic — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- scattershot — delivered over a wide area and at random; generalized and indiscriminate: a scattershot attack on the proposed program.
- scharnhorst — Gerhard Johann David von [gair-hahrt yoh-hahn dah-veet fuh n] /ˈgɛər hɑrt ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈdɑ vit fən/ (Show IPA), 1755–1813, Prussian general.
- school trip — educational outing
- schoolcraft — Henry Rowe [roh] /roʊ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1864, U.S. explorer, ethnologist, and author.
- schorlomite — a mineral that is black in colour and belongs to the garnet group
- scotch rose — a rose, Rosa spinosissima, of Eurasia, having pink, white, or yellow flowers.
- scots-irish — Scotch-Irish
- screen shot — Also called screen capture. a copy or image of what is seen on a computer screen at a given time: Save the screenshot as a graphics file.
- screenshort — a screenshot that is shared on a social media website.
- shock front — the forward boundary surface of a shock wave.
- shoot craps — to play this game
- short score — a condensed version of the score for a musical composition, usually written for piano
- shortchange — to give less than the correct change to.
- shortcoming — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
- sixth chord — an inversion of a triad in which the second note (next above the root) is in the bass.
- 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.
- stenochrome — a printed design made using stenochromy
- stenochromy — the art of printing designs made of more than one colour using a single impression
- 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.
- stock horse — a horse or pony used in herding cattle.
- stockholder — Also called stockowner. a holder or owner of stock in a corporation.
- stop chorus — a solo during which the rhythm section plays only the first beat of each phrase of music
- storm watch — watch (def 20).
- stretch out — lie down, sprawl
- 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.
- synchrotron — a type of cyclotron consisting of magnetic sections alternately spaced with sections in which particles are electrostatically accelerated.
- tachysterol — an isomer of ergosterol, C28H44O, formed during the production of calciferol by the irradiation of ergosterol
- 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.
- thermoscope — a device that indicates a change in temperature, esp one that does not measure the actual temperature
- 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.
- touchscreen — a touch-sensitive display screen on a computer or other electronic device: touching different portions of the screen with a finger or stylus will cause the device to take actions determined by a computer program.
- track shoes — light running shoes fitted with steel spikes for better grip
- tract house — a house forming part of a real-estate development, usually having a plan and appearance common to some or all of the houses in the development.