11-Letter Words Starting with S

Shanghai

Shankpiece

Shantytown

Rows in forms that will please the eye

Visually attractive quality

Attractive and well-proportioned quality

Sharpness

Sailor's knots

Sheerness

Decisive defeat

Pasting

Mischief; dishonest activity

Mischief Colloq.

MONKEY business

Shepherd

Shininess

""Formerly, a jocose term for a bank note greatly depreciated in value; also, for paper money of a denomination less than a dollar.""

Carl Lewis shuns them

Distance runners' woes

Track woes

Shirtfront

Shivaree

Cramming

Small sums of money.

They get laced

Footwear laces

In-store stocktaking (wordplay)

Stealing from a store

Stealing from stores

Shopwindow

Shorefront

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

In need of stenographers

Not having enough staff

Without enough staff

Shortness

Shotgunner

Shotgun

Assuming sweetheart ought to call round

Shovelnose

Showboat

Showiness

Barnum's forte.

Talent for skilful display

Theatrical skill

Wrinkling and contracting

Shunpiking

Sibilation

Sickening

SICKISH somewhat sick

Sidedness

Driving recklessly, in a way

Some desert reptiles

Air-to-air missiles

The state of being sightly; comeliness; conspicuousness.

Vacation-travel occupation

Playing the tourist

Sometime diplomatic activity.

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

SILICONE a silicon compound

Silkiness

Same as Fibrolite. Fibrolite.

Silliness

The state of being silvery.

A technique of drawing on specially prepared paper with a silver-tipped instrument.

Simplify

Imitative acts

Counterfeit displays.

Same as Sincerity. Sincerity.

Sincerity

Small symphony orchestra

Small orchestral piece

Small orchestra

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

Lonesome pines

Uniqueness

To make singular or single; to distinguish.

SINLESS without sin

Relating to the Chinese language or literature.

Sinologist

Sinsemilla

Sinuosity

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

Sinusitis

""SITUATION Manner in which an object is placed; location, esp. as related to something else; position; locality site; as, a house in a pleasant situation. as, a house in a pleasant situation.""

SIZABLE of considerable size

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.""

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

Skibobbing

Breaking out into fights

Scrapping briefly, risk rough Russian fighter holding part of leg

Skyjacking

Skywriting

Slackness

SLAVISH pertaining to a slave

Sleekness

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

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

Sloganeer

SLOGANIZE

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

Slovenly

Meat stew

Hobo stew

Stew

Smallness

Smartness

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)

Testy bloomers (wordplay)

Testy garden flowers (wordplay)

What a monstrous photographer can do

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

Increasing, as world population

Increasing rapidly

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

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)

Snowplow

Snowshoe

Soapiness

Soberness

SOCIALISE

SOCIALIZE To render social.

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

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

Solidify

Solidness

The act of solfaing.

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.

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

""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

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

Sonication

Job for an oracle

Sootiness

Soppiness

Sorriness

SOTTISH resembling a sot

Deep feeling quality

Deep feeling

Soundalike

Soundboard

How late-comers should conduct themselves

Soundness

Prepares a booth for recording

Rigs for recording

Soundstage

Bass tubas used in marching bands

Instruments named for The March King

Parade instruments

How independent nations function

Governs, yet somehow holds one dominion

It's signified by a crown

Pre-eminence

SOVIETIZE

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

Spareness

SPECIAL a special person or thing

Speciation

""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

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

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

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

Sphenopsid

""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.""

Spiciness

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

Spikiness

Adjective meaning resembling

Weakly and without courage

The book fell apart

Spininess

Diminutive form

Spinosity

SPINSTER an older unmarried woman

Splashdown

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

Splatter

Spleenwort