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11-letter words containing t, r, i, s, a, c

  • scarf joint — a joint in which two timbers or other structural members are fitted together with long end laps of various forms and held in place with bolts, straps, keys, fishplates, etc., to resist tension or compression.
  • scarlatinal — scarlet fever.
  • scatter pin — a woman's small ornamental pin, usually worn with other similar pins on a dress, suit jacket, etc.
  • scatterling — a person with no fixed home; a wanderer; a vagabond
  • scissortail — Also called scissortailed flycatcher [siz-er-teyld] /ˈsɪz ərˌteɪld/ (Show IPA). a flycatcher, Muscivora forficatus, of the southern U.S., Mexico, and Central America, having a long, deeply forked tail.
  • scratch hit — a batted ball, usually poorly hit, barely enabling the batter to reach base safely: a scratch hit off the end of the bat.
  • scratch wig — a short wig, especially one that covers only part of the head.
  • scriptorial — of or relating to a scriptorium
  • scsi target — (hardware)   A SCSI device that executes a command from a SCSI initiator to perform some task. Typically the target is a SCSI peripheral device but the host adapter can also be a target.
  • 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.
  • secretariat — the officials or office entrusted with administrative duties, maintaining records, and overseeing or performing secretarial duties, especially for an international organization: the secretariat of the United Nations.
  • secretional — of or relating to secretion
  • selectorial — of or relating to selections or selectors
  • shirtjacket — a jacket styled like a shirt
  • shit-scared — very scared
  • sidetracked — any railroad track, other than a siding, auxiliary to the main track.
  • 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 patrick — Norman Bel [bel] /bɛl/ (Show IPA), 1893–1958, U.S. industrial and stage designer and architect.
  • skip tracer — an investigator whose job is to locate missing persons, especially debtors.
  • slot racing — the activity of racing slot cars.
  • sothic year — the fixed year of the ancient Egyptians, determined by the heliacal rising of Sirius, and equivalent to 365 days.
  • sparagmatic — denoting a type of Precambrian rock found in Scandinavia
  • spectrality — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
  • specularity — the state of resembling a mirror
  • spermatoxic — (of a substance) toxic to spermatozoa.
  • sphragistic — of or relating to seals or signet rings.
  • spirit cave — an archaeological site in Thailand that has produced evidence of very early plant domestication in Southeast Asia, dated c7000 b.c.
  • spirochaete — any of various spiral-shaped motile bacteria of the family Spirochaetaceae, certain species, as Treponema, Leptospira, and Borrelia, being pathogenic to humans and other animals, and other species being free-living, saprophytic, or parasitic.
  • sporadicity — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
  • sprite crab — ghost crab.
  • st. francis — Saint Francis (Francisco Javier"the Apostle of the Indies") 1506–52, Spanish Jesuit missionary, especially in India and Japan.
  • starchiness — of, relating to, or of the nature of starch.
  • starchitect — a well-known and well-paid architect noted for his or her landmark buildings
  • stenocardia — angina pectoris, a contraction of the heart or its vessels due to a lack of oxygen, causing severe chest pain
  • stereobatic — relating to or resembling a stereobate
  • stereocilia — any of the long, flexible microvilli that superficially resemble cilia and occur as a brush border or series of tufts on the surface of various epithelial tissues.
  • stereotaxic — of, relating to, or based on three-dimensional studies of the brain, especially as an adjunct to brain surgery.
  • stickleader — a person assigned to check the appearance or condition of each person in a stick
  • stitchcraft — needlework or embroidery
  • straichtest — straightest
  • strait-lace — to bind, confine, or restrain with or as if with laces.
  • strategical — pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.
  • strike back — retaliate
  • sub-article — a written composition in prose, usually nonfiction, on a specific topic, forming an independent part of a book or other publication, as a newspaper or magazine.
  • subcortical — situated beneath the cortex.
  • subcritical — Physics. pertaining to a state, value, or quantity that is less than critical, especially to a mass of radioactive material.
  • subcurative — of a dosage which is not strong enough to have a curing effect
  • subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
  • subliteracy — below average literacy
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