11-Letter Words Starting with S

Skibobbing

Skirmisher

Breaking out into fights

Scrapping briefly, risk rough Russian fighter holding part of leg

Skittery

Skyjacking

Skywriting

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

SLAVISH pertaining to a slave

SLENDERIZE

Slenderize

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

Slickness

Insulting and devious, to grab lamps so

Sliminess

""Sing (= discipline) → Schlankheitsgymnastik f pl (= exercises) → Schlankheitsgymnastik f SMALLHOLDER (British) → petit cultivateur m hc_En_Fr() SNIPERSCOPE (Military / Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) a telescope with crosshairs mounted on a sniper's rifle""

Slipform

Slippery

Floats in the air after mistake made by propellers

Slivovitz

SLOGANIZE

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

Slovenly

Meat stew

Hobo stew

Stew

Smaragdite

Smattering

Fragments for Howard K.

Small broken pieces looked at together

A gazillion pieces

Zinc ore

Smokiness

Smoothen

Slowly burning

Having repressed emotions? That gives Sigmund role for sorting out

Subjected to venomous attacks (wordplay)

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

Increasing, as world population

Increasing rapidly

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

Snowberry

Snowiness

SNOWMOBILE

Dog sleds updated

Dog sleds updated

They make dog-sledders jealous (wordplay)

Snowplow

Snowshoe

Soapberry

Soapiness

The quality of being sociable; sociableness.

SOCIALISE

England's type of government

Sociality

Partygoers

SOCIALIZE To render social.

English word

Sociology

Studier of human communities

Relating to the study of group relationships

SOCIOPATH

Adjective (-al)

""Pertaining to, or of the nature of, sodomy.""

Sogginess

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.""

Solicitant

Solicitude

Solidarism

Solidarist

Solidify

Solidness

Soliloquy

Make solo stage speech

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

A single player left in dishonour, quit so disgracefully

Do a Shakespearean bit

Talk to oneself

Talk to oneself.

SOLIPSIST

The act of solfaing.

SOLUBILISE

Solubilise

SOLUBILIZE

Solubilize

Feature of this crossword, if you're good

SOMATIC pertaining to a {soma=n}

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.

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

To some indeterminate place; to some place or other.

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

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 .""

Sonication

Job for an oracle

Sootiness

Sopaipilla

Of or pertaining to a sophist; embodying sophistry; fallaciously subtile; not sound.

Beguiling but tricky methods of reasoning

Soppiness

A member of a Slavic people inhabiting the region of Lusatia in eastern Germany and southwest Poland. Also called Wend .

Sorriness

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

SOTTISH resembling a sot

Soubriquet

Soundalike

Southerly

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)

Spadefish

Pasta in long fine strands.

Spallation

Greek dish having spinach and feta cheese in filo pastry

In Greek cooking, a filo pastry stuffed with spinach and feta cheese

Spancel

English word

Adjective meaning resembling

See antispasmodic .

Spasmodically.

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

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

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

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

Speechify

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.

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

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

""SPICULATE Covered with, or having, spicules.""

Flowers.

Spikiness

Adjective meaning resembling

Weakly and without courage

The book fell apart

Spininess

Diminutive form

Spinosity

SPINSTER an older unmarried woman

Concerning the occult.

In a sanctified manner.

In an unearthly manner

An ecclesiastical body; a spirituality.

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

Splendid

When breaking up, maybe slept in before call

Fragmenting

Splotchy

Spitting explosively

Don't invite them!

Wet blankets, figuratively

Wet blankets

Spoliation

Plural or third person singular

SPONDYL a {vertebra=n}

Money given to support an activity

Backing prison's posh refurbishment

The pledging of money to a fund-raiser

Abandon nasty pie, not properly cooked

Ability to act on impulse

Uninhibited or instinctive behaviour

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"

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 ]""

""SPOROPHYTE In plants exhibiting alternation of generations, the generation which bears asexual spores; -- opposed to gametophyte. It is not clearly differentiated in the life cycle of the lower plants.gametophyte. It is not clearly differentiated in the life cycle of the lower plants.""

Sporozoite

SPORULATE

""The act or process of forming spores; spore formation. See Illust. of Bacillus, b. Illust. of Bacillus, b.""

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