11-Letter Words Starting with S

Killing an offering to a deity

Ritually slaughtering

Bunting.

Protected

Protection from harm

Protection.

Protection

With good judgment

In a shrewd manner

Woody plants that herb likes (wordplay)

Paige tangles the hair while ...

Paige tangles the hair while...

SAILBOAT a boat with sails

SAILPLANE

Salmagundi

Plural or third person singular

Inflammation of the salpinx.

Like some sunken ships

Sanctify

Making binding

Kin of slowplayers*

Ambushers

Part of being a pool shark

Sanderling

Sandglass

Birds found in semideserts

Pigeonlike birds

Sandwich

""A tube of vitrified sand, produced by a stroke of lightning; a fulgurite""

Abounding with blood; sanguine.

Saponify

Stone coffin with carvings

Sculpted coffin

Pyramid box

Satyagraha

Scabbard

Metal framework used when 4 down

Temporary structure for building workers

Tubular structure erected round building

Scandal

Put the blame on

Rapscallions.

Rascals

An alarming person

One spreading worrying rumours

Spreader of frightening rumours

Scatology

One who wastes; a spendthrift.

English word

Scattergun

Things dispersed haphazardly

""The art or act of representing a body on a perspective plane; also, a representation or description of a body, in all its dimensions, as it appears to the eye.""

Adjective (-ic)

Some Little Women taught at St Trinian's

SCIENTIZE

Scorching

Scouther

Scraggly

Screaming

Scrimmager

""SCRIMMAGE Formerly, a skirmish; now, a general row or confused fight or struggle.""

Scrootch

Scroungy

SCRUMMAGE See Scrimmage. Scrimmage.

""SCULPTURE The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal, etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as of men, or other things; hence, the art of producing figures and groups, whether in plastic or hard materials.""

""An American grape, a form of Vitis vulpina, found in the Southern Atlantic States, and often cultivated. Vitis vulpina, found in the Southern Atlantic States, and often cultivated.""

Seaborgium

Racy English drunk, looking here, there and everywhere (wordplay)

20th Century Fox picture (wordplay)

It illuminates land under damaged arches

*'Slumdog Millionaire' studio [37]

Sediment

Segmental

SEGREGATE Separate; select.

Apartheid, say, upset Saint George

Saint George's unexpected detachment

A keeping apart

SEGREGATE Separate; select.

Seguidilla

Of or pertaining to the lord of a manor; manorial.

Seigneurie

""Something claimed or taken by virtue of sovereign prerogative; specifically, a charge or toll deducted from bullion brought to a mint to be coined; the difference between the cost of a mass of bullion and the value as money of the pieces coined from it.""

Seigniory

Seignorage

Seismogram

Earthquake measuring instrument

Instrument for registering earthquakes

Instrument registering earthquakes

""A genus of cryptogamous plants resembling Lycopodia, but producing two kinds of spores; also, any plant of this genus. Many species are cultivated in conservatories.""

""SEMAPHORE A signal telegraph; an apparatus for giving signals by the disposition of lanterns, flags, oscillating arms, etc.""

The science of meanings or sense development (of words); the explanation of the development and changes of the meanings of words; -- more commonly referred to as semantics.semantics.

Semiology

Student of signs/symbols

SENSITISE

""SENSITIZE To render sensitive, or susceptible of being easily acted on by the actinic rays of the sun; as, sensitized paper or plate. as, sensitized paper or plate.""

SENTINEL to stand guard

""SEPULCHRE The place in which the dead body of a human being is interred, or a place set apart for that purpose; a grave; a tomb.""

Sergeancy

Sergeanty

SERIALISE

SERIALIZE

Serigraph

Preaching the Word

SEROLOGIC

Serologist

Creeping; said of lesions which heal over one portion while continuing to advance at another.

""Pertaining to, or founded on, the number sixty.""

Sexologist

SEXUALIZE To attribute sex to.

An image produced by casting a shadow on a screen.

Shaggymane

Shandygaff

Shanghaier

Shanghai

Decisive defeat

Pasting

Mischief; dishonest activity

Mischief Colloq.

MONKEY business

Shepherd

English word

""Pl. shigelloses (-s z) Dysentery caused by any of various species of shigellae, occurring most frequently in areas where poor sanitation and malnutrition are prevalent and commonly affecting children and infants.""

""Pl. shigelloses (-s z) Dysentery caused by any of various species of shigellae, occurring most frequently in areas where poor sanitation and malnutrition are prevalent and commonly affecting children and infants.""

Clubs in Dublin

Irish clubs

Cudgels

Shipwright

Shivaree

Cramming

Small sums of money.

They get laced

Footwear laces

In-store stocktaking (wordplay)

Stealing from a store

Stealing from stores

Give poor value

Cheat by returning insufficient money

Give insufficient recompense

Character flaw, say

Defect in aspirin (wordplay)

A fault not long showing up

Shortening

Shotgunner

Shotgun

Assuming sweetheart ought to call round

Showboat

Wrinkling and contracting

Shunpiking

Amateur photographers

Camera enthusiasts

Photogs

Sialagogue

Sickening

Driving recklessly, in a way

Sightless

The state of being sightly; comeliness; conspicuousness.

Vacation-travel occupation

Playing the tourist

Sometime diplomatic activity.

In a sigmoidal manner.

SIGNALISE

SIGNALIZE To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish.

Signalment

Mostly communicate to Conservative witnesses

Indicative of something

Important enough to merit attention

Having meaning

Signifying

Signpost

Silicify

Simplify

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

Lonesome pines

Uniqueness

To make singular or single; to distinguish.

Relating to the Chinese language or literature.

Sinologist

Making tracks

Clearing out desk when sacked, then going off

Skibobbing

Breaking out into fights

Scrapping briefly, risk rough Russian fighter holding part of leg

Villain's occupation.

John Silver's forte

Underhand trickery

Skyjacking

Skywriting

Killed

One who slaughters.

Insulting and devious, to grab lamps so

Slipform

Sloganeer

SLOGANIZE

Meat stew

Hobo stew

Stew

Smaragdite

Smattering

Smoothen

Choice meal (wordplay)

Swedish-style hors d'oeuvres

Scandinavian-style buffet

Slowly burning

Having repressed emotions? That gives Sigmund role for sorting out

Testy bloomers (wordplay)

Testy garden flowers (wordplay)

What a monstrous photographer can do

Increasing, as world population

Increasing rapidly

Protest activity for ANWR drilling proponents against EPA officials (wordplay)

Snowplow

Snowshoe

SOCIALISE

SOCIALIZE To render social.

English word

Sociology

Studier of human communities

Knockout blow: Slang

Knockout blow Slang.

Slang A conclusive blow or remark.

Sogginess

Soldiering

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

Solidify

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

SONGFUL melodious

Berlin and others

Theme of this puzzle

Bruce Springsteen and Chuck Berry, e.g

""One who writes lyrics or tunes, or both, for songs. Also called songsmith , songster .""

Job for an oracle

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

Soundstage

How independent nations function

Governs, yet somehow holds one dominion

It's signified by a crown

Pre-eminence

SOVIETIZE

Walk by fellow in subtle NASA mission (wordplay)

Pasta in long fine strands.

Spancel

Heavenly photo

""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.""

Spelunking

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

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

Spittlebug

Splatter

When breaking up, maybe slept in before call

Fragmenting

Spitting explosively

Spongeware

Production or formation of spores.

Sporogony

""Pl -nia [-nɪə] (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) the sporophyte of mosses and liverworts, consisting of a spore-bearing capsule on a short stalk that arises from the parent plant (the gametophyte) sporogonial   adj STADIOMETER (Mathematics & Measurements / Surveying) an instrument that measures the length of curves, dashes, etc., by running a toothed wheel along them [from stadio- , from stadium + -meter ]""

SPORULATE

With all eyes watching

More animated.

Southern prude, dictatorial type, demoting one relatively active

Perils at sea crossing starboard make you more nimble

Flexible point of departure (wordplay)

Jumping-off place (wordplay)

If you're here, you'll take a dive

Springhead