11-letter words containing s, p, e, c, t, a
- sheep track — a pathway made by and used by sheep, often in rocky or mountainous terrain, and sometimes followed by hikers
- skeptically — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
- skip tracer — an investigator whose job is to locate missing persons, especially debtors.
- space cadet — a person who appears to be in his or her own world or out of touch with reality.
- space stage — a stage set, often limited to an arrangement of ramps and platforms, in which actors and set pieces are spotlighted against the bare background of a dark or black cyclorama.
- spaceflight — the flying of manned or unmanned spacecraft into or in outer space.
- spathaceous — of the nature of or resembling a spathe.
- 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.
- special act — a legislative act that applies only to specific persons or to a specific area.
- specialties — a special or distinctive quality, mark, state, or condition.
- specificate — a thing which is specified
- 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
- speculating — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
- speculatist — a person who speculates
- speculative — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
- speculatory — a place suitable for observation
- speechcraft — the art of rhetoric
- 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.
- 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.
- sprite crab — ghost crab.
- stanley cup — a trophy emblematic since 1926 of the championship of the National Hockey League, composed of Canadian and U.S. professional teams.
- stauroscope — an optical instrument for studying the crystal structure of minerals under polarized light
- steatopygic — extreme accumulation of fat on and about the buttocks, especially of women.
- steeplejack — a person who climbs steeples, towers, or the like, to build or repair them.
- stench trap — a trap in a sewer that by means of a water seal prevents the upward passage of foul-smelling gases
- step change — A step change is a sudden or major change in the way that something happens or the way that someone behaves.
- stepdancing — a dance emphasizing footwork or certain steps instead of other bodily gestures or movement
- sticky tape — adhesive strip
- streetscape — a pictorial view of a street.
- substance p — a small peptide released upon stimulation in the nervous system and involved in regulation of the pain threshold.
- superactive — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
- superjacent — lying above or upon something else.
- superoctave — an organ stop two octaves above the standard pitch
- supremacist — a person who believes in or advocates the supremacy of a particular group, especially a racial group: a white supremacist.
- susceptance — the imaginary component of admittance, equal to the quotient of the negative of the reactance divided by the sum of the squares of the reactance and resistance. Symbol: B.
- suspectable — that could be suspected
- sympathetic — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
- syncopative — relating to syncopation
- teachership — a person who teaches or instructs, especially as a profession; instructor.
- technospeak — any abstruse technical jargon
- ten's place — ten (def 6).
- tennis camp — a camp that people go to in order to play and be taught tennis
- third space — the coffee shop considered as an alternative to a bar or restaurant as a place to socialize outside the home
- track spike — a chisel-pointed spike used to secure the rails of a railroad track to wooden ties.