11-letter words containing s
- ailanthuses — Plural form of ailanthus.
- aimlessness — The state or quality of being aimless, or without purpose or direction.
- air cushion — an inflatable cushion, usually made of rubber or plastic
- air express — the rapid transportation of goods and documents by aircraft
- air hostess — An air hostess is a woman whose job is to look after the passengers in an aircraft.
- air marshal — a senior Royal Air Force officer of equivalent rank to a vice admiral in the Royal Navy
- air passage — a space occupied or traversed by air.
- air service — the services performed by an airline, as flights between various destinations to transport passengers, freight, and mail.
- air shuttle — a shuttle service operated by aircraft, usually covering short routes with frequent flights
- air sprayer — a pneumatic sprayer.
- air station — an airfield, usually smaller than an airport but having facilities for the maintenance of aircraft
- air steward — a steward on an airliner
- air surfing — surfing that involves aerial stunts
- air vesicle — a large air-filled intercellular space in some aquatic plants
- air-express — to send or transport by air express: Your package will be air-expressed and should reach its destination tomorrow.
- air-shipped — to send or ship via aircraft: to air-ship machine parts overseas.
- air-sprayed — sprayed by means of compressed air
- airbrushing — Present participle of airbrush.
- airlessness — The state or condition of being poorly ventilated; lacking good air circulation, having stale air.
- airport bus — a public bus that takes passengers to and from the airport, usually connecting the city centre and (at a large airport) the different terminals
- airsickness — a feeling of nausea and dizziness, sometimes accompanied by vomiting, as a result of the motion of the aircraft in which one is traveling.
- airwaybills — Plural form of airwaybill.
- alabastrine — a finely granular variety of gypsum, often white and translucent, used for ornamental objects or work, such as lamp bases, figurines, etc.
- alarm bells — If you say that something sets alarm bells ringing, you mean that it makes people feel worried or concerned about something.
- alaska crab — king crab (def 2).
- alaska time — Alaska-Hawaii time.
- alaska-crab — horseshoe crab.
- albategnius — Latin name of Battani.
- albatrosses — Plural form of albatross.
- albugineous — related to or resembling the white of an egg
- albuminoids — any of a class of simple proteins, as keratin, gelatin, or collagen, that are insoluble in all neutral solvents; scleroprotein.
- alcalescent — Alternative spelling of alkalescent.
- alcaligenes — any of several rod-shaped aerobic or facultatively anaerobic bacteria of the genus Alcaligenes, found in the intestinal tract of humans and other vertebrates and in dairy products.
- alchemistic — a form of chemistry and speculative philosophy practiced in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and concerned principally with discovering methods for transmuting baser metals into gold and with finding a universal solvent and an elixir of life.
- alcoholysis — chemical decomposition resulting from the interaction of a compound and an alcohol.
- aldermaston — a village in S England, in West Berkshire unitary authority, Berkshire, SW of Reading: site of the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment and starting point of the Aldermaston marches (1958–63), organized by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Pop: 927 (2001)
- alderperson — a member of a municipal legislative body, especially of a municipal council.
- aldohexoses — Plural form of aldohexose.
- aldopentose — a monosaccharide with five carbon atoms
- aldosterone — the principal mineralocorticoid secreted by the adrenal cortex. A synthesized form is used in the treatment of Addison's disease. Formula: C21H27O5
- aldotetrose — (carbohydrate) Any aldose having four carbon atoms.
- alessandria — a town in NW Italy, in Piedmont. Pop: 85 438 (2001)
- alfonso xii — 1857–85, king of Spain 1874–85.
- algesimeter — an instrument for determining the sensitiveness of the skin to a painful stimulus.
- algophagous — feeding on algae, as certain insects.
- algophilist — Person who is subject to algophilia; person who enjoys pain and gets sexual pleasure from it.
- alismaceous — of or relating to the genus Alisma
- alkalescent — developing alkaline qualities
- alkali soil — a soil that gives a pH reaction of 8.5 or above, found esp in dry areas where the soluble salts, esp of sodium, have not been leached away but have accumulated in the B horizon of the soil profile
- alkyd resin — any synthetic resin made from a dicarboxylic acid, such as phthalic acid, and diols or triols: used in paints and adhesives