11-Letter Words Starting with S

Small symphony orchestra

Small orchestral piece

Small orchestra

""In England and Scotland, a cudgel used in fencing or fighting; a backsword.""

Lonesome pines

To make singular or single; to distinguish.

SINLESS without sin

Sinsemilla

Sinuosity

""SINUOUS characterized by curves, bends or turns, also SINUOSE""

Sinusitis

Women's auxiliaries.

Women's auxiliaries

Social groups

Sitosterol

SIZABLE of considerable size

Ramped-up items (wordplay)

Hawk's propellers (wordplay)

(Moves on) wheeled contraptions

Skedaddler

Making tracks

Clearing out desk when sacked, then going off

SKELETON the supporting bone structure of a body

""To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its skeleton.""

Skeptical

Skepticism

Artists' buys

In which to find an artist's early work (wordplay)

The quality or state of being sketchy; lack of finish; incompleteness.

Skirmisher

Skittery

Villain's occupation.

John Silver's forte

Underhand trickery

Firework, limited edition, rose high and fast

In Scottish island, plant density shot up

Carpentry tools for a pilot (wordplay)

Chicago School architects' products

New York giants

Slackness

""Slaphappier , slaphappiest Slang Dazed, silly, or incoherent from or as if from blows to the head; punch-drunk.""

Killed

One who slaughters.

One who holds slaves.

SLAVISH pertaining to a slave

Sleazeball

Sleekness

In an ever alert manner

Vigilantly

Noctambulated

Clint at 300 A.M.?

Clint at 3:00 A.M. (wordplay)

We paler elks (anagram)

Sleepyhead

SLENDERIZE

Slenderize

Attribute of many fashion models

Graceful thin quality

Gracefully thin quality

Hammer or Spade

Sherlock, for instance.

Detective with a nose for crime fighting

""A polished, striated rock surface caused by one rock mass sliding over another in a fault plane.""

Slickness

Sliminess

Slippery

Floats in the air after mistake made by propellers

Slivovitz

Sloganeer

""An awkward, drooping, excessively relaxed posture or gait.""

Slovenly

Farmer who's short-handed (wordplay)

Minor farmer

Briefcase for an agriculturalist (wordplay)

Smallness

Smaragdite

Smartness

Smattering

Fragments for Howard K.

Small broken pieces looked at together

A gazillion pieces

Zinc ore

Smokehouse

Chimneys

Smokiness

Smoothbore

Smoothen

Slowly burning

Having repressed emotions? That gives Sigmund role for sorting out

Subjected to venomous attacks (wordplay)

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Snapshot

Sneezeweed

Suspect seen burying thief's knife

Large knife

Old knife

Snideness

""(Military / Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) a telescope with crosshairs mounted on a sniper's rifle""

Snippety

Snowberry

Winter driveway clearers

Winter sidewalk clearers

One using only a half pipe (wordplay)

One flipping out on slopes (wordplay)

Half-pipe performer

Snowbrush

Snowiness

SNOWMOBILE

Dog sleds updated

Dog sleds updated

They make dog-sledders jealous (wordplay)

Snowshoe

Soapberry

Soapiness

Soberness

Sociality

Partygoers

English word

Sociology

Relating to the study of group relationships

Adjective (-al)

Knockout blow: Slang

Knockout blow Slang.

Slang A conclusive blow or remark.

Softballer

Too compassionate (wordplay)

A bunch of pseuds of the art editor kind

Daftest hero becomes compassionate

Sogginess

Solacement

""Of or pertaining to plants of the natural order Solanace\'91, of which the nightshade (Solanum) is the type. The order includes also the tobacco, ground cherry, tomato, eggplant, red pepper, and many more. Solanace\'91, of which the nightshade (Solanum) is the type. The order includes also the tobacco, ground cherry, tomato, eggplant, red pepper, and many more.""

Soldiering

Military qualities or state; martial skill; behavior becoming a soldier.

Past tense or past participle

Solemnify

Loses time in complicated ceremonies

""SOLEMNIZE To perform with solemn or ritual ceremonies, or according to legal forms.""

Solicitude

Solidness

Soliloquy

Make solo stage speech

Air bed in square 10 is somehow losing air badly? Have words with oneself

Do a Shakespearean bit

Talk to oneself

Talk to oneself.

SOLUBILISE

Solubilise

SOLUBILIZE

Solubilize

SOLVENT a substance capable of dissolving others

Any of a group of peptides produced by the liver upon stimulation by growth hormone that act directly on many cell types to stimulate growth.

Somatotype

Spring rolls (wordplay)

Takes a turn in the air

Tumbler's feats.

""SOMERSET to somersault, to roll the body in a circle, head over heels""

Somerset

To some indeterminate place; to some place or other.

""Causing or inducing sleep; soporific; dormitive; as, a somniferous potion. as, a somniferous potion.""

Somnolence

Somnolent

SONGFUL melodious

Berlin and others

Theme of this puzzle

Bruce Springsteen and Chuck Berry, e.g

Fortunetellers

People predicting hot years getting excited in cry for help

Roles in 'Julius Caesar' and 'Antony and Cleopatra'

Sootiness

Beguiling but tricky methods of reasoning

Soppiness

Dish dictated letters for Warlocks

Witches

Sibyls

Sorriness

""A discourse on health, or the science of promoting and preserving health.""

SOTTISH resembling a sot

Soubriquet

Deep feeling quality

Deep feeling

Soundalike

How late-comers should conduct themselves

Soundness

Soundstage

Sourcebook

Bass tubas used in marching bands

Instruments named for The March King

Parade instruments

""A storm, strong wind, or gale coming from the southeast.""

Southerly

Blow one's top in it (wordplay)

How independent nations function

Governs, yet somehow holds one dominion

It's signified by a crown

Pre-eminence

SOVIETIZE

Spacecraft

Walk by fellow in subtle NASA mission (wordplay)

Spacewalk

Spacewalk

Spadefish

Pasta in long fine strands.

Spancel

Spareness

Adjective meaning resembling

The common yellow water lily (Nuphar advena). Nuphar advena).

Prohibition-era fixtures

Jazz Age rendezvous.

Roaring Twenties rendezvous

""The office of speaker; as, the speakership of the House of Representatives. as, the speakership of the House of Representatives.""

Spearfish

Spearfish

Initiated, as an undertaking

Took the lead, as in a campaign.

Pioneered, as a movement

Concentrating on one subject

Blend of spices ideal for a particular purpose

Specialise

Specialism

Specialist

SPECIALIZE To mention specialy; to particularize.

Narrows the field.

SPECIAL a special person or thing

Neurology, oncology, cardiology, etc.

Speciation

Speciesism

Concrete, as complaints

SPECIFIC a remedy intended for a particular disease

Like an elaborate display, perhaps

Show clears up act for broadcasting

One kind of TV show

Heavenly photo

SPECULAR relating to a speculum

""SPECULATE To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to speculate on questions in religion; to speculate on political events. as, to speculate on questions in religion; to speculate on political events.""

One of Hulme's conjectures (wordplay)

Wall Street motivation

Son's embezzlement's a matter of conjecture

Conjecturing - high-risk

Based on conjecture

Disagreement I have about iffy clue involving guesswork

Market manipulators

""-fies , -fying , -fied (intr) to make a speech or speeches""

Speechify

Speedball

Travelling clock (wordplay)

Sonata instrument (wordplay)

It displays the going rate

Labor Day orator, perhaps

A dynamic speaker, for example

Big hit on the lecture circuit

Spelunking

Not one to buy with prudence

Extravagantly spending person

Irresponsible user of money

Spermaceti

Pl. spermagonia also spermogonia (-n - ) A cup-shaped cavity or receptacle in which the spermatia of certain lichens and fungi are produced.

""A small sac connected with the female reproductive organs of insects and many other invertebrates, serving to receive and retain the spermatozoa.""

""Pl. spermatozoa (-z ) The mature fertilizing gamete of a male organism, usually consisting of a round or cylindrical nucleated cell, a short neck, and a thin motile tail. Also called sperm cell , zoosperm .""

SPERMICIDE

Spermicide

Any ground squirrel of the genus Spermophilus; gopher. See Illust. under Gopher. Spermophilus; gopher. See Illust. under Gopher.

Sperrylite

""A red to brownish-red mineral of the garnet group, Mn 3 Al 2 (SiO 4 ) 3 .""

A manganesian variety of garnet.

Sphalerite

Sphenopsid

Spherical

""An instrument for measuring the curvature of spherical surface, as of lenses for telescope, etc.""