11-letter words containing s, i, n, c, e
- grandnieces — Plural form of grandniece.
- graphicness — The quality of being graphic: grotesqueness or vividness.
- greenschist — schist colored green by an abundance of chlorite, epidote, or actinolite.
- grouchiness — The characteristic or quality of being grouchy.
- hackishness — (jargon) The quality of being or involving a hack. This term is considered mildly silly. Synonym hackitude.
- haines city — a town in central Florida.
- hellenistic — pertaining to Hellenists.
- helminthics — Plural form of helminthic.
- hemisecting — Present participle of hemisect.
- hemisection — to cut into two equal parts; to bisect, especially along a medial longitudinal plane.
- heteroscian — a name applied to the people who live in temperate zones, so given because in these areas shadows created by the sun at noon will fall in opposite directions
- hexastichon — hexastich.
- hibernicism — an idiom or characteristic peculiar to Irish English or to the Irish.
- hinderances — Plural form of hinderance.
- hispanicize — to make Spanish or Latin American, as in character, custom, or style.
- homecomings — Plural form of homecoming.
- horseracing — Alternative form of horse racing.
- house finch — a small common finch, Carpodacus mexicanus, originally of the western U.S. and Mexico and now widely distributed: the males have a red forehead, throat, breast, and rump.
- huckstering — Present participle of huckster.
- hyoscyamine — a poisonous alkaloid, C 17 H 23 NO 3 , obtained from henbane and other solanaceous plants, used as a sedative, analgesic, mydriatic, and antispasmodic.
- hypermnesic — the condition of having an unusually vivid or precise memory.
- hypocretins — Plural form of hypocretin.
- icarian sea — the part of the Aegean Sea between Turkey and the Greek islands of Patmos and Leros.
- ice fishing — the act or practice of fishing through a hole cut in the ice.
- ice station — a camp or base in an isolated part of the Arctic or Antarctic, manned by specialists to monitor the weather, geological formations, wildlife, etc.
- ice-skating — If you go ice-skating, you move about on ice wearing ice-skates. This activity is also a sport.
- iconophiles — a connoisseur of icons or images.
- iconoscopes — Plural form of iconoscope.
- iconostases — Plural form of iconostasis.
- icosahedron — a solid figure having 20 faces.
- illicitness — not legally permitted or authorized; unlicensed; unlawful.
- impecunious — having little or no money; penniless; poor.
- importances — the quality or state of being important; consequence; significance.
- imprecision — not precise; not exact; vague or ill-defined.
- impuissance — Impotence, weakness.
- in any case — an instance of the occurrence, existence, etc., of something: Sailing in such a storm was a case of poor judgment.
- in articles — formerly, undergoing training, according to the terms of a written contract, in the legal profession
- in chambers — in the privacy of a judge's chambers
- in close-up — If you see something in close-up, you see it in great detail in a photograph or piece of film which has been taken very near to the subject.
- in lockstep — When members of the armed forces march in lockstep, they march very close to each other.
- in prospect — expected, predicted
- in stitches — one complete movement of a threaded needle through a fabric or material such as to leave behind it a single loop or portion of thread, as in sewing, embroidery, or the surgical closing of wounds.
- inactivates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inactivate.
- incalescent — increasing in heat or ardor.
- incandesces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incandesce.
- incanescent — (dated) Becoming hoary or grey; canescent.
- incapsulate — Alternative form of encapsulate.
- incensation — (Roman Catholic Church) The offering of incense.
- incensement — to inflame with wrath; make angry; enrage.
- incentivise — (transitive, British spelling) To provide with an incentive. (from 20th c.).