11-Letter Words Starting with S

Killing an offering to a deity

Ritually slaughtering

Bunting.

Protection from harm

Protection.

Protection

SAILBOAT a boat with sails

SAILPLANE

Sanctify

Making binding

Part of being a pool shark

Sandwich

Saponify

Scabbard

Metal framework used when 4 down

Temporary structure for building workers

Tubular structure erected round building

Scandal

SCIENTIZE

Scouther

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

Scrootch

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.""

Sediment

SEGREGATE Separate; select.

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

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.""

SERIALISE

SERIALIZE

Preaching the Word

SEXUALIZE To attribute sex to.

Shanghai

Decisive defeat

Pasting

Shepherd

Shivaree

Cramming

In-store stocktaking (wordplay)

Stealing from a store

Stealing from stores

Character flaw, say

Defect in aspirin (wordplay)

A fault not long showing up

Shotgun

Assuming sweetheart ought to call round

Showboat

Wrinkling and contracting

Driving recklessly, in a way

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.

Signpost

Silicify

Simplify

Making tracks

Clearing out desk when sacked, then going off

Breaking out into fights

Scrapping briefly, risk rough Russian fighter holding part of leg

Slipform

SLOGANIZE

Smoothen

Slowly burning

Having repressed emotions? That gives Sigmund role for sorting out

Increasing, as world population

Increasing rapidly

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

Snowplow

Snowshoe

SOCIALISE

SOCIALIZE To render social.

""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""

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

Job for an oracle

SOVIETIZE

Spancel

""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.""

Splatter

When breaking up, maybe slept in before call

Fragmenting

Spitting explosively

SPORULATE

Spurgall

Squadron

Wasting recklessly

Squatter

Squeegee

Squilgee

SQUIRREL to store up for future use

STABILIZE

Stablish

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.

Present participle or gerund

Stellify

Art form

STENOTYPE

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

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

Stiletto

Inspiring new enthusiasm

Animating, exciting

Imitative behaviour, over time, likely to provoke reaction

""STIPULATE Furnished with stipules; as, a stipulate leaf. as, a stipulate leaf.""

Storing up

Retailer's task - shoplifting (wordplay)

Evaluation of unsold goods

Straight

Straiten

Stranger

Forming layers

Stravaig

STRUCTURE The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.

Stultify

Subclass

DIVIDING separation

FREEZING the process of freezing

""SUBJUGATE To subdue, and bring under the yoke of power or dominion; to conquer by force, and compel to submit to the government or absolute control of another; to vanquish.""

""SUBLIMATE To bring by heat into the state of vapor, which, on cooling, returns again to the solid state; as, to sublimate sulphur or camphor. as, to sublimate sulphur or camphor.""

""SUBMARINE Being, acting, or growing, under water in the sea; as, submarine navigators; submarine plants. as, submarine navigators; submarine plants.""

Subpoena

SUBROGATE To put in the place of another; to substitute.

SAMPLING a small part selected for analysis

SCRIBING the act of scribing

SUBSIDISE

""SUBSIDIZE To furnish with a subsidy; to purchase the assistance of by the payment of a subsidy; to aid or promote, as a private enterprise, with public money; as, to subsidize a steamship line. as, to subsidize a steamship line.""

SUBTILIZE To make thin or fine; to make less gross or coarse.

Inflected form of TOTALING Inflected form of TOTAL to amount to

Deducting

""From Suffocate, v. Suffocate, v.""

SULFONATE

""SULFURET to treat with sulfur, also SULPHURET""

SULFURIZE

SUMMARISE

""SUMMARIZE To comprise in, or reduce to, a summary; to present briefly.""

Superadd

SUPERCEDE

SUPERHYPE

""SUPERPOSE To lay upon, as one kind of rock on another.""

""SUPERSEDE To come, or be placed, in the room of; to replace.""

Physics A hypothetical particle consisting of a very short one-dimensional string existing in ten dimensions. It is the elementary particle in a theory of space-time incorporating supersymmetry.

English word

SUPERVENE To come as something additional or extraneous; to occur with reference or relation to something else; to happen upon or after something else; to be added; to take place; to happen.

Directing (workers)

Supplant

Banning (from publication)

Subduing

""SUPPURATE To generate pus; as, a boil or abscess suppurates. as, a boil or abscess suppurates.""

Adding an extra fee to

Overcoming (obstacle)

Overcoming

Surprint

SURROGATE A deputy; a delegate; a substitute.

Ruins ground thrown all about

Encircling

Surveil

SYLLOGIZE To reason by means of syllogisms.

SYMBOLISE

SYMBOLIZE To have a resemblance of qualities or properties; to correspond; to harmonize.

""SYNCOPATE To contract, as a word, by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; as, "Gloster" is a syncopated form of "Gloucester." as, "Gloster" is a syncopated form of "Gloucester."""

""SYNDICATE The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council, or body of syndics.""

SYNOPSIZE

SYSTEMIZE To reduce to system; to systematize.