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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.
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