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11-letter words containing s, t, a, n

  • supernation — a large body of people, associated with a particular territory, that is sufficiently conscious of its unity to seek or to possess a government peculiarly its own: The president spoke to the nation about the new tax.
  • supernature — the supernatural
  • supertanker — a tanker with a deadweight capacity of over 75,000 tons.
  • supplanting — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
  • suppressant — a substance that suppresses an undesirable action or condition: an appetite suppressant.
  • suppurating — to produce or discharge pus, as a wound; maturate.
  • suppuration — the process of suppurating.
  • suraddition — an additional title
  • surfcasting — the act, technique, or sport of fishing by casting from the shoreline into the sea, usually using heavy-duty tackle.
  • surrogation — a person appointed to act for another; deputy.
  • surtarbrand — deposits of brown coal embedded in Iceland lava
  • surveillant — exercising surveillance.
  • 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.
  • suscitation — the act of suscitating
  • suspiration — a long, deep sigh.
  • sustainable — capable of being supported or upheld, as by having its weight borne from below.
  • sustainably — in a way that allows for continual use of a natural resource without depleting it or causing environmental damage: sustainably grown coffee.
  • sustainment — to support, hold, or bear up from below; bear the weight of, as a structure.
  • sustentator — a sustaining part or structure
  • susurration — a soft murmur; whisper.
  • swarthiness — (of skin color, complexion, etc.) dark.
  • sweat gland — one of the minute, coiled, tubular glands of the skin that secrete sweat.
  • sweat pants — loose-fitting pants of soft, absorbent fabric, as cotton jersey, usually with a drawstring at the waist and close-fitting or elastic cuffs at the ankles, commonly worn during athletic activity for warmth or to induce sweating.
  • swing state — a state of the U.S. in which the Democratic and Republican candidates both have a good chance of winning and that is considered key to the outcome of a presidential election: the swing states of Ohio and Indiana.
  • switch cane — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
  • switzerland — a republic in central Europe. 15,944 sq. mi. (41,294 sq. km). Capital: Bern.
  • sycophantic — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
  • sylvestrian — living in the woods; sylvan
  • synanthesis — the simultaneous ripening of a flower's stigmas and stamens
  • synanthetic — relating to synanthesis
  • synaptosome — a saclike structure at an isolated nerve ending
  • syncopation — Music. a shifting of the normal accent, usually by stressing the normally unaccented beats.
  • syncopative — relating to syncopation
  • syndactylus — a person having united or webbed fingers or toes.
  • syndication — a group of individuals or organizations combined or making a joint effort to undertake some specific duty or carry out specific transactions or negotiations: The local furniture store is individually owned, but is part of a buying syndicate.
  • synesthesia — a sensation produced in one modality when a stimulus is applied to another modality, as when the hearing of a certain sound induces the visualization of a certain color.
  • syngnathous — (of fish) having a tubular snout, e.g. pipefish, seahorse
  • synonymatic — relating to, or made up of, synonyms
  • syntactical — of or relating to syntax: syntactic errors in English; the syntactic rules for computer source code.
  • syntagmatic — pertaining to a relationship among linguistic elements that occur sequentially in the chain of speech or writing, as the relationship between the sun and is shining or the and sun in the sentence The sun is shining.
  • syntax-case — (language)   A macro system for Scheme by R. Kent Dybvig <[email protected]>. It is superior to the low-level system described in the Revised^4 Report (R4RS). Pattern variables are ordinary identifiers with essentially the same status as lexical variable names and macro keywords. The syntax is modified to recognise and handle references to pattern variables. Version 2.1 works with Chez Scheme and the Macintosh port runs under MacGambit 2.0
  • synthespian — a computer-generated image of a film actor, esp used in place of the real actor when shooting special effects or stunts
  • synthetical — of, pertaining to, proceeding by, or involving synthesis (opposed to analytic).
  • tabernacles — any place or house of worship, especially one designed for a large congregation.
  • tactfulness — having or manifesting tact: a tactful person; a tactful reply.
  • taintlessly — without taint
  • taking lens — a camera in which the image appears on a ground-glass viewer (focusing screen) after being reflected by a mirror or after passing through a prism or semitransparent glass; in one type (single-lens reflex camera) light passes through the same lens to both the ground glass and the film, while in another type (twin-lens reflex camera) light passes through one lens (viewing lens) to the ground glass and through a second lens (taking lens) to the film, the lenses being mechanically coupled for focusing.
  • talent show — a theatrical show in which a series of usually amateur or aspiring singers, dancers, comedians, instrumentalists, etc., perform in the hope of gaining recognition.
  • tankbusting — the practice of destroying tanks
  • tanniferous — containing much tannin; yielding tannin.
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