11-letter words starting with s
- scene shift — the changing of scenes during a play
- scenography — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
- scent gland — any of various specialized skin glands, occurring in many kinds of animals, that emit an odor commonly functioning as a social or sexual signal or a defensive weapon.
- scent spray — perfume that comes in an aerosol bottle
- sceptreless — lacking a sceptre, powerless, lacking authority
- sceuophylax — a keeper of sacred vessels
- schaffhouse — a town in N Switzerland, capital of Schaffhausen canton, on the Rhine. Pop: 33 628 (2000)
- scharnhorst — Gerhard Johann David von [gair-hahrt yoh-hahn dah-veet fuh n] /ˈgɛər hɑrt ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈdɑ vit fən/ (Show IPA), 1755–1813, Prussian general.
- schecklaton — a gilded leather used for embroidering jacks
- schematical — based on a scheme or structured arrangement
- scheme-to-c — (language) A Scheme compiler written in C that emits C and is embeddable in C. Scheme-to-C was written by Joel Bartlett of Digital Western Research Laboratory. Version 15mar93 translates a superset of Revised**4 Scheme to C that is then compiled by the native C compiler for the target machine. This design results in a portable system that allows either stand-alone Scheme programs or programs written in both compiled and interpreted Scheme and other languages. It supports "expansion passing style" macros, foreign function calls, records, and interfaces to Xlib (Ezd and Scix). Scheme-to-C runs on VAX, ULTRIX, DECstation, Alpha AXP OSF/1, Windows 3.1, Apple Macintosh 7.1, HP 9000/300, HP 9000/700, Sony News, SGI Iris and Harris Nighthawk, and other Unix-like 88000 systems. The earlier 01nov91 version runs on Amiga, SunOS, NeXT, and Apollo systems.
- schenectady — a city in E New York, on the Mohawk River.
- schick test — a diphtheria immunity test in which diphtheria toxoid is injected intracutaneously, nonimmunity being indicated by an inflammation at the injection site.
- schiff base — the product of the chemical association of an aldehyde with a primary amine
- schillerize — to give a schiller to (a crystal) by developing microscopic inclusions along certain planes.
- schismatist — schismatic (def 2).
- schismatize — to take part in a schism.
- schistosity — of, resembling, or in the form of schist.
- schistosome — Also called bilharzia. any elongated trematode of the genus Schistosoma, parasitic in the blood vessels of humans and other mammals; a blood fluke.
- schizanthus — any of several plants of the genus Schizanthus, native to Chile, having numerous variously colored flowers resembling small orchids.
- schizogenic — reproducing or formed by fission.
- schizogonic — relating to schizogony
- schizophyte — any of the Schizophyta, a group of organisms comprising the schizomycetes and the schizophyceous algae, characterized by a simple structure and reproduction by simple fission or spores.
- schizopodal — pertaining to a split-foot or appendage
- schlesinger — Arthur Meier [mahy-er] /ˈmaɪ ər/ (Show IPA), 1888–1965, U.S. historian.
- schmierkase — cottage cheese.
- scholarship — learning; knowledge acquired by study; the academic attainments of a scholar.
- schollander — Donald ("Don") born 1946, U.S. swimmer.
- school book — School books are books giving information about a particular subject, which children use at school.
- school fees — the money paid for a person to go to school
- school fund — the money provided by a government or raised by parents and teachers to finance the running of a school
- school life — the period of your life that you spend at school
- school meal — lunch served at educational institution
- school milk — (formerly, in Britain) a third of a pint of milk, originally provided free by the local education authority to all young pupils, then later given only to children who passed a needs or means test
- school ship — a vessel used in training students for nautical careers.
- school song — a song which is particular to a school, and which pupils sing at assembly, or on special occasions
- school time — the period of the day or year when children are at school
- school trip — educational outing
- school year — the months of the year during which school is open and attendance at school is required.
- school-book — a book for study in schools.
- schoolchild — a child attending school.
- schoolcraft — Henry Rowe [roh] /roʊ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1864, U.S. explorer, ethnologist, and author.
- schoolgoing — the act of going to school
- schoolhouse — a building in which a school is conducted.
- schoolma'am — schoolmarm.
- schoolmarms — a female schoolteacher, especially of the old-time country school type, popularly held to be strict and priggish.
- schoolwards — in the direction of school
- schoonschip — (mathematics, tool) (From the Dutch for "beautiful ship" or "clean ship") A program for symbolic mathematics, especially High Energy Physics, written by M. Veltman of CERN in 1964. Schoonschip only does algebra, no derivatives. It was implemented originally in CDC 6600 and CDC 7600 assembly language and currently in 680x0 assembly language. Runs on Amiga, Atari ST, Sun-3 and NeXT. It was once maintained by David Williams at the University of Michigan Physics Department.
- schorlomite — a mineral that is black in colour and belongs to the garnet group
- schottische — a round dance resembling the polka.