11-letter words containing s
- assiniboine — a river in W Canada, rising in E Saskatchewan and flowing southeast and east to the Red River at Winnipeg. Length: over 860 km (500 miles)
- assistances — the act of assisting; help; aid; support.
- associating — to connect or bring into relation, as thought, feeling, memory, etc.: Many people associate dark clouds with depression and gloom.
- association — An association is an official group of people who have the same job, aim, or interest.
- associative — Associative thoughts are things that you think of because you see, hear, or think of something that reminds you of those things or which you associate with those things.
- associators — Plural form of associator.
- assoilments — Plural form of assoilment.
- assortative — Denoting or involving the preferential mating of animals or marrying of people with similar characteristics.
- assortments — Plural form of assortment.
- assuagement — to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate: to assuage one's grief; to assuage one's pain.
- assubjugate — to cause to be oppressed or overpowered
- assumptions — something taken for granted; a supposition: a correct assumption. Synonyms: presupposition; hypothesis, conjecture, guess, postulate, theory.
- assuredness — guaranteed; sure; certain; secure: an assured income.
- assyriology — the study of the culture, history, and archaeological remains of ancient Assyria
- astatically — unstable; unsteady.
- astaxanthin — (organic compound) A xanthophyll pigment that occurs widely in plants and animals, especially crustaceans.
- asteraceous — belonging to the Asterasceae, an alternative name for the plant family Compositae.
- asterisking — Present participle of asterisk.
- asteroidean — an echinoderm of the class Asteroidea, comprising the starfishes.
- asteropaeus — a Trojan ally slain by Achilles.
- asthmatical — Dated form of asthmatic.
- astigmatism — If someone has astigmatism, the front of their eye has a slightly irregular shape, so they cannot see properly.
- astonishing — Something that is astonishing is very surprising.
- astoundment — the state of being astounded
- astral body — Astronomy. a star, planet, comet, or other heavenly body.
- astraphobia — a fear of thunder and lightning
- astringence — Alternative spelling of astringency.
- astringency — An astringent taste.
- astringents — Plural form of astringent.
- astroblemes — Plural form of astrobleme.
- astrobotany — the branch of botany that investigates the possibility that plants grow on other planets
- astrocytoma — a tumour of the nervous system which originates in and consists mainly of astrocytes
- astrogation — (in science fiction) navigation in outer space.
- astrography — The art of describing or delineating the stars; a description or mapping of the heavens.
- astrologers — Plural form of astrologer.
- astrologian — (obsolete) An astrologer.
- astrologist — the study that assumes and attempts to interpret the influence of the heavenly bodies on human affairs.
- astromancer — divination by means of the stars.
- astrometric — (astronomy) of or relating to astrometry.
- astronautic — Of or pertaining to astronautics.
- astronomers — Plural form of astronomer.
- astronomize — to practise or study astronomy or engage in astronomical matters
- astrophobia — A fear of stars and celestial space.
- astrophyton — The giant basket star, an early Mesozoic invertebrate.
- astrosphere — the part of the aster excluding the centrosome
- asymmetries — Plural form of asymmetry.
- asynartetic — having or containing two different types of metre
- asynclitism — The position of a baby in the uterus such that the head is presenting first, tilted to the shoulder and thus no longer in line with the birth canal.
- asyncronous — (spelling) It's spelled "asynchronous".
- at a stroke — If something happens at a stroke or in one stroke, it happens suddenly and completely because of one single action.