11-Letter Words Starting with S

""A bacterial cell whose cell wall is absent or deficient, causing it to have a spherical form.""

Spherulite

Of or pertaining to a spherulite; characterized by the presence of spherulites.

""SPHINCTER A muscle which surrounds, and by its contraction tends to close, a natural opening; as, the sphincter of the bladder. as, the sphincter of the bladder.""

""A basic, long-chain, unsaturated amino alcohol, C 18 H 37 NO 2 , found combined with lipids in the brain and in nerve tissue.""

Spicebush

Spiciness

Flowers.

Spikiness

Adjective meaning resembling

Weakly and without courage

The book fell apart

Spininess

Diminutive form

Spinosity

SPINSTER an older unmarried woman

Having or evidencing a refined mind and wit.

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Microbiology) any of a group of spirally coiled rodlike bacteria that includes the causative agent of syphilis See treponema [from New Latin spīrochaeta; see spiro- 2 , chaeta ]""

SPIROCHETE

Spirochete

Spirometer

An instrument for measuring the volume of air entering and leaving the lungs.

Spiteful

Spittlebug

""Splashier , splashiest Making or likely to make splashes.""

Splatter

Splayfoot

Spleenwort

Splendid

Splendid.

Pl. splenectomies Surgical removal of the spleen.

When breaking up, maybe slept in before call

Fragmenting

Splotchy

Splutterer

Spitting explosively

Spokeshave

A woman who speaks on behalf of another or others. See Usage Note at man .

A man who speaks on behalf of another or others. See Usage Note at man .

Plural or third person singular

Spongeware

Abandon nasty pie, not properly cooked

Ability to act on impulse

Uninhibited or instinctive behaviour

Unrehearsed, awful panto's no use

Cause of Mr Krook's death

Middle of the resolution

Those making rowdy brawls from fairy lights, perhaps (wordplay)

They often involve switching initial letters, as in the starred answers

Transpositions like "It is kisstomary to cuss the bride"

Production or formation of spores.

Sporogony

Sporophore

Sporophyte

Sporozoite

A woman who is active in sports.

SPORULATE

With all eyes watching

Program to start making bed (wordplay)

Partly make a bed as a table (wordplay)

Cell block (wordplay)

More animated.

Southern prude, dictatorial type, demoting one relatively active

Perils at sea crossing starboard make you more nimble

Springhead

A small storehouse constructed over a spring and used to keep food cool.

Light, bouncy feeling

The high seas

Periods of seedings and plantings

Vernal occasions

Clear quaff

Cooler drink

Perrier product

Protected from fire by a water system.

Protected from fire by a water system

Filthy and unpleasant condition

Squanderer

Wasting recklessly

""The quality or state of being squashy, or soft.""

Squatness

Squatter

Squawfish

Squeamish

Squeegee

Squelchy

Squiggly

Squilgee

Empty Sunday penning paper on bridge rule

SQUIRREL to store up for future use

Squirrel

Abstract noun (-ness)

Squooshy

Stability

Stabilizer

People in the same company shifting blame among countries

""Formerly, the chief magistrate of the United Provinces of Holland; also, the governor or lieutenant governor of a province.""

Stagecraft

Longing to take part (wordplay)

Obsessed with the theater

Longing to act when lorry hounds coaches

""An American shrub (Andromeda Mariana) having clusters of nodding white flowers. It grows in low, sandy places, and is said to poison lambs and calves. Andromeda Mariana) having clusters of nodding white flowers. It grows in low, sandy places, and is said to poison lambs and calves.""

Staginess

Stagnancy

Staidness

Stainless

In a stainless manner.

One with an interest in (say) society

One with an interest (in something)

Part-owner, say

Mammoth hangings (wordplay)

Downers (wordplay)

Certain roof hangings

Nuisance at a POW camp (wordplay)

Uppers (wordplay)

Features of some caves

STALEMATE The position of the king when he can not move without being placed on check and there is no other piece which can be moved.

Staleness

Tradesman may be a theatre-goer

Stanchion

Idea strand? (anagram)

Make uniform and a dress with it, possibly

'Get up, get up!', to welcome duke's regiment

Create norms for

Cause to conform to a norm

Make identical

Tolerate a sideshow barker (wordplay)

Opponent of change in policy.

Conservative Colloq

Starboard

Stiffness of manner

Formality

Starflower

Starkness

Noun (-ment)

Starveling

Statecraft

Structures at Albany, Trenton, etc.

Capitols

Grandeur of railways in USA

Dignified and imposing quality

Grandeur shown by gallery products on board

Befitting a respected politician

Statoscope

""STAUNCH to stop the flow of blood, also STANCH""

Staurolite

Stavesacre

With resolute determination

Unwaveringly

Firm demolished flats internally with determination

Stealthy

""One who installs and repairs heating, ventilating, refrigerating, and air-conditioning systems.""

Defeated and then some

Whupped and then some

Overwhelming power, as used in politics

Political machine of a sort.

Crush opposition, politically speaking.

""Body, Human""

""Body, Human""

Overaction of the sebaceous glands.

Bessemer-converter owners

Present participle or gerund

Man in Bethlehem (wordplay)

Bridge builder

See hardhack .

TV presenter Fred Dibnah's day job

Tall chimney repairer

Worker on tall chimneys etc

Steepness

Pilot's concern

Sort of dinosaur

Dinosaur with bony plates along the back

Godzilla, in part

Stellify

Stenciller

Art form

STENOBATH

Tool for the working girl.

Secretary's forte

Shorthand writing

Limited to or able to live only within a narrow range of saltwater concentrations. Used of aquatic organisms.

Stenotherm

Stenotypy

STENOTYPE

STENOTYPE

Relative by marriage

Relative to walk with hassle round river

Upset Herbert's top relative

New additions to the family, sometimes

Ones joining the family

Tropical climbing plant

House painters' aids

Roofers' gear

Paperhangers' needs

Fairy tale characters.

Some remarried women

They've joined the family

Relatives by marriage

Cinderella had two

3-D pictures.

A flat representation of a 3-D original

Three-D picture

3-D picture.

Twin-channel sound

Device offering 3-D viewing

It provides outstanding images

Three-D viewer

Viewing in 3-D

""A method in neurosurgery and neurological research for locating points within the brain using an external, three-dimensional frame of reference usually based on the Cartesian coordinate system.""

Conforming to stock idea

Conforming to a stock image

Tired Tory with deep-set disorder

""One who stereotypes; one who makes stereotype plates, or works in a stereotype foundry.""

Hackneyed expressions, for example.

Sees pottery cast in moulds

Film heroes, often

Like a stock image

Conventional

Sterility

Sterilizer

""STERILIZE To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility.""

Sternness

""A substance that irritates the nasal and respiratory passages and causes coughing, sneezing, lacrimation, and sometimes vomiting.""

It can pick the beat up (wordplay)

Medical instrument that scoops teeth out

It will find a broken heart

STEVEDORE One whose occupation is to load and unload vessels in port; one who stows a cargo in a hold.

Management or care (of something)

Administration of property, finance etc

Management employing waitress with PhD

To manoeuvre (the puck) deftly in ice hockey

Fish taking seconds to amuse, returned

Small spiny fish

Loot's bound to excite British swimmer

Stiffness

""STIGMATIZE To mark with a stigma, or brand; as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers. as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers.""

Puts a bad rap on

DES.

Stiletto

Stillness

STILTED stilt

Invigorating.

Working for regular pay

Paid magistrate

It's back to the accounts' book to write in 'paid'

Stitchery

Wholesale plant grower or cattleman?

Dealer with bulls and bears.

Cher (wordplay)

Stockfish

Ranch owner (wordplay)

Reader of "quotations."

Owner of funds in a company

Stretch fabric for making bandages etc

Stretchy fabric

Former finance worker

Warehouse worker

Stockpiler

Stolidity

Serious whale ailment (wordplay)

Overeater's woe

Overeater's risk

Stomodaeum

Secret society member in an episode of "The Simpsons"

Secret society member in an episode of 'The Simpsons'

Stonefish

They build a nest on moss, perhaps

Blockheads (wordplay)

Certain builders

Used delaying tactics

Held things up

Hindered big-time

One playing for time

One who is continually evasive to block progress

Defensive batsman, one playing for time with one wicket in hand

Like once-popular jeans

Stoniness

They have seconds

Many timers

Main Street lineup

They've got the goods

Depositories

Repositories

Local retailer, maybe

* Mom or Pop, maybe

Stockholder (wordplay)

Librarian, for one.

Narrator (possibly a liar?)

What is a talesman (wordplay)

Stoutness

Straggly

Makes correct

Taking a night's rest diminishes wrinkles!