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11-letter words containing s, t, e, r, i

  • shoe-string — a shoelace.
  • short field — the area of the infield between third base and second, covered by the shortstop.
  • short title — an abridged listing in a catalog or bibliography, giving only such essential information as the author's name and the book's title, publisher, and date and place of publication.
  • short-lived — living or lasting only a little while.
  • short-timer — a person, as a soldier, who has a short period of time left to serve on a tour of duty.
  • shorthaired — (of an animal) having hair that is short and lies close to the body.
  • shortweight — to give less than the weight charged for: The firm is accused of shortweighting grain.
  • shower unit — fitted shower
  • side street — a street leading away from a main street; an unimportant street or one carrying but little traffic.
  • sidetracked — any railroad track, other than a siding, auxiliary to the main track.
  • siegmeister — Elie [el-ee] /ˈɛl i/ (Show IPA), 1909–91, U.S. composer.
  • sight rhyme — agreement in spelling, but not in sound, of the ends of words or of lines of verse, as in have, grave.
  • sightscreen — a white screen set in line with the wicket as an aid to the batsman in seeing the ball when it is bowled.
  • sign writer — someone whose job is to produce signs for businesses
  • signatories — having signed, or joined in signing, a document: the signatory powers to a treaty.
  • signet ring — a finger ring containing a small seal, one's initial, or the like.
  • silk thread — thread that is manufactured from silk
  • silver beet — a variety of beet, Beta vulgaris cicla, having large firm green leaves: staple cooked green vegetable in Australia and New Zealand
  • silver gilt — an ornamental coating of silver, silver leaf, or a silver-colored substance.
  • 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).
  • silver-gilt — an ornamental coating of silver, silver leaf, or a silver-colored substance.
  • silverpoint — a technique of drawing with a silver stylus on specially prepared paper.
  • silversmith — a person whose occupation is making and repairing articles of silver.
  • silvester i — Saint, died a.d. 335, pope 314–335.
  • silvestrian — of or relating to woodland
  • simon peter — Peter (def 1).
  • simpliciter — simply
  • sincerities — freedom from deceit, hypocrisy, or duplicity; probity in intention or in communicating; earnestness.
  • 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.
  • sinisterity — left-handedness
  • sinistrorse — (from a point of view at the center of the spiral) rising spirally in a counterclockwise manner, as a stem (opposed to dextrorse).
  • sir stanley — Arthur Penrhyn [pen-rin] /ˈpɛn rɪn/ (Show IPA), (Dean Stanley) 1815–81, English clergyman and author.
  • sister city — Sister cities are cities in different countries that have formally established a special relationship with each other involving, for example, cultural and sports events.
  • six-pointer — a football match between two teams in similar positions in the league table, considered as being worth six points as it not only gains the winning team three points but denies three points to the losing team
  • six-shooter — a revolver from which six shots can be fired without reloading.
  • sixth grade — (in the US) the sixth school year after kindergarten, usually containing pupils around 11 or 12 years old
  • sixty-three — a cardinal number, 60 plus 3.
  • skillcentre — an institution providing vocational training or retraining for employed or unemployed people
  • skip tracer — an investigator whose job is to locate missing persons, especially debtors.
  • skirt steak — a thin cut of beef taken from the plate or, sometimes, from the diaphragm
  • slipperette — a disposable slipper, often of paper, as for wear during a long airplane or train trip.
  • slipperwort — any of several tropical American plants belonging to the genus Calceolaria, of the figwort family, having opposite or whorled leaves and slipper-shaped flowers.
  • slit trench — a narrow trench for one or more persons for protection against enemy fire and fragmentation bombs.
  • slot aerial — a transmitting aerial in which the radiating elements are open slots in a surrounding metal sheet
  • smithereens — If something is smashed or blown to smithereens, it breaks into very small pieces.
  • snickometer — a device, which uses sound waves recorded by the stump microphone, employed by TV commentators to determine whether or not a batsman has made contact with the ball
  • soccer city — a large football stadium in South Africa, in the Soweto area of Johannesburg; headquarters of the South African Football Association
  • sociometric — the measurement of attitudes of social acceptance or rejection through expressed preferences among members of a social grouping.
  • solarimeter — an instrument for measuring solar radiation.
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