11-letter words containing sc
- corpuscular — Biology. an unattached cell, especially of a kind that floats freely, as a blood or lymph cell.
- coruscating — A coruscating speech or performance is lively, intelligent, and impressive.
- coruscation — a gleam or flash of light
- coscenarist — one of two or more joint scenarists.
- cram school — a private institution, especially in East Asia, that uses an accelerated curriculum to prepare students for university entrance exams.
- cranioscopy — the study of the features of the human skull
- crepuscular — Crepuscular means relating to twilight.
- crepusculum — Crepuscule; twilight; dusk.
- crescendoed — Music. a gradual, steady increase in loudness or force. a musical passage characterized by such an increase. the performance of a crescendo passage: The crescendo by the violins is too abrupt.
- crescendoes — Plural form of crescendo.
- crescentade — a religious crusade or war fought under the flag of Turkey
- crescograph — an instrument for measuring plant growth
- crime scene — A crime scene is a place that is being investigated by the police because a crime has taken place there.
- crowd scene — (in a film, play, or television programme) a scene in which a crowd appears
- cryptoscopy — (dated) fluoroscopy.
- culdoscopes — Plural form of culdoscope.
- cystoscopes — Plural form of cystoscope.
- cystoscopic — Relating to, or using cystoscopy.
- damascening — Present participle of damascene.
- dame school — (formerly) a small school, often in a village, usually run by an elderly woman in her own home to teach young children to read and write
- dame-school — a school in which the rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic were taught to neighborhood children by a woman in her own home.
- dauerschlaf — a form of therapy, now rarely used, that involves the use of drugs to induce long periods of deep sleep.
- de-escalate — to reduce the level or intensity of (a crisis, etc)
- decrescendo — with a gradual decrease in loudness; diminuendo: often used as a musical direction: symbol 57381
- deescalated — Simple past tense and past participle of deescalate.
- deescalates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deescalate.
- defervesced — to undergo defervescence.
- deliquesced — Simple past tense and past participle of deliquesce.
- delitescent — concealed; hidden; latent.
- descamisado — an extreme liberal of the Spanish revolution 1820–23.
- descendancy — Lb uncountable The quality or condition of being a descendant.
- descendants — a person or animal that is descended from a specific ancestor; an offspring.
- descendence — The act of descending.
- descendency — The property of descendence.
- descendents — Misspelling of descendants.
- descendible — capable of being inherited
- deschooling — to abolish or phase out traditional schools from, so as to replace them with alternative methods and forms of education.
- descloizite — a mineral, lead zinc vanadate.
- descrambled — Simple past tense and past participle of descramble.
- descrambler — unscrambler (def 2).
- describable — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
- description — You can say that something is beyond description, or that it defies description, to emphasize that it is very unusual, impressive, terrible, or extreme.
- descriptive — Descriptive language or writing indicates what someone or something is like.
- descriptors — Plural form of descriptor.
- detumescent — characterized by detumescence
- deutschland — Germany
- deutschmark — the former standard monetary unit of Germany, divided into 100 pfennigs; replaced by the euro in 2002: until 1990 the standard monetary unit of West Germany
- diascordium — a herbal medicine, no longer in use, containing among other ingredients the herb scordium and opium
- dichroscope — an instrument for investigating the dichroism of solutions or crystals
- disc camera — a camera that accepts a film cartridge in the form of a rotatable disc with film frames mounted around the outer edge.