11-letter words containing s, t, a, r, l, e
- screw plate — a metal plate having threaded holes, used for cutting screw threads by hand.
- sea leather — the skin of sharks, porpoises, dogfishes, etc., prepared and used for the same purposes as ordinary leather.
- searchlight — a device, usually consisting of a light and reflector, for throwing a beam of light in any direction.
- secretarial — noting, of, or pertaining to a secretary or a secretary's skills and work: a secretarial school.
- secretional — of or relating to secretion
- selectorate — a body of people responsible for making a selection, esp members of a political party who select candidates for an election
- selectorial — of or relating to selections or selectors
- self-hatred — the feeling of one who hates; intense dislike or extreme aversion or hostility.
- seminatural — partly natural and partly cultivated
- semitrailer — Also called semi. a detachable trailer for hauling freight, with wheels at the rear end, the forward end being supported by the rear of a truck tractor when attached. Compare full trailer.
- sempiternal — everlasting; eternal.
- septemviral — of or relating to septemvirs or a septemvirate.
- septifragal — (of a capsule) dehiscing by breaking away from the partitions but remaining attached to the common axis; dehiscing at the valves or backs of the carpels but leaving the septa intact.
- serial port — A serial port on a computer is a place where you can connect the computer to a device such as a modem or a mouse.
- serratulate — having small serrations; mildly serrate
- serrulation — serrulate condition or form.
- sertularian — a type of hydroid that forms stiff, feathery colonies in which the cups holding the zooids are sessile.
- servantless — without servants; not having a servant or servants
- servitorial — of or pertaining to a servitor
- sesquialter — in the ratio of 3:2
- sgml tagger — (tool) A tool to assist with adding SGML to a piece of text. The Tagger only lets the user insert a mark-up tag which is correct in that particular context.
- shelftalker — a promotional sign used by a retailer to draw attention to a featured product on the shelf
- sheriffalty — shrievalty.
- shinplaster — a plaster for the shin or leg.
- silk thread — thread that is manufactured from silk
- silver star — a bronze star with a small silver star at the center, awarded to a soldier who has been cited in orders for gallantry in action, when the citation does not warrant the award of a Medal of Honor or the Distinguished Service Cross.
- silver thaw — glaze (def 17).
- silvestrian — of or relating to woodland
- singletrack — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
- sir stanley — Arthur Penrhyn [pen-rin] /ˈpɛn rɪn/ (Show IPA), (Dean Stanley) 1815–81, English clergyman and author.
- slack water — a period when a body of water is between tides.
- slant rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
- slaughtered — the killing or butchering of cattle, sheep, etc., especially for food.
- slave trade — the business or process of procuring, transporting, and selling slaves, especially black Africans to the New World prior to the mid-19th century.
- slot aerial — a transmitting aerial in which the radiating elements are open slots in a surrounding metal sheet
- smart aleck — an obnoxiously conceited person.
- smell a rat — any of several long-tailed rodents of the family Muridae, of the genus Rattus and related genera, distinguished from the mouse by being larger.
- solarimeter — an instrument for measuring solar radiation.
- soldier ant — a type of ant that has a disproportionately large head
- sole trader — feme-sole trader.
- sorrel salt — potassium binoxalate.
- southlander — a person from the south
- 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.
- specularity — the state of resembling a mirror
- speculatory — a place suitable for observation
- spheroplast — a Gram-negative bacterial cell with a cell wall that has been altered or is partly missing, resulting in a spherical shape.
- spinsterial — relating to a spinster
- spirit lake — a lake in SW Washington, at the N foot of Mount St. Helens: site of devastation during 1980 eruptions of Mount St. Helens.
- sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation