11-Letter Words Starting with S

Without protection (from weather)

English word

Watchwords

Without ambition

""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

Shipfitter

Shipmaster

Shipwright

Shirtfront

Shirtmaker

Kind of diplomacy

Tugged-on thing

An ace may be up it

Shirtwaist

The wood of the shittah tree.

Superlative adjective

Small sums of money.

They get laced

Footwear laces

Manipulators of a rising market

Do business like an agent for iron pumpers (wordplay)

Japanese-language winner of the Palme d'Or (May, 2018)

In-store stocktaking (wordplay)

Stealing from a store

Stealing from stores

Shorefront

Shortbread

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

Like some cats

In need of stenographers

Not having enough staff

Without enough staff

Shortness

Shotgunner

Shotgun

Showboat

Almost any Merman number.

Big Broadway number

Kind of act or song.

Amateur photographers

Camera enthusiasts

Photogs

SHUTTER to provide with window covers

The 'ball' in badminton

Weaverbird (wordplay)

Object struck in badminton

SHUTTLE to move back and forth

Sibilation

Siderolite

Avoided the issue

Circumvented

Avoided

SIDESTEP to step to one side

Sidestroke

Diverted from the main issue.

Thrown off course

Shunted (wordplay)

Sightless

The state of being sightly; comeliness; conspicuousness.

Vacation-travel occupation

Playing the tourist

Sometime diplomatic activity.

Signalment

Mostly communicate to Conservative witnesses

Indicative of something

Important enough to merit attention

Having meaning

Signpost

Seen as a shape against a light background

Figures against the light

Outlines

Same as Fibrolite. Fibrolite.

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

Paul Revere, for one

Paul Revere profession

Fine metal worker

Similitude

Imitative acts

Counterfeit displays.

Simulcast

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

Sinologist

Sinuosity

Sinusitis

Women's auxiliaries.

Women's auxiliaries

Social groups

Sitosterol

""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.""

Ramped-up items (wordplay)

Hawk's propellers (wordplay)

(Moves on) wheeled contraptions

SKELETON the supporting bone structure of a body

""To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its skeleton.""

Skeptical

Skepticism

Artists' buys

In which to find an artist's early work (wordplay)

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

Skittery

Firework, limited edition, rose high and fast

In Scottish island, plant density shot up

Skywriting

Killed

One who slaughters.

Hammer or Spade

Sherlock, for instance.

Detective with a nose for crime fighting

Insulting and devious, to grab lamps so

""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""

Slippery

Floats in the air after mistake made by propellers

Slivovitz

Slovenly

Smallmouth

Smaragdite

Smartness

Smattering

Fragments for Howard K.

Small broken pieces looked at together

A gazillion pieces

Zinc ore

Chimneys

Smoothbore

Smoothen

Subjected to venomous attacks (wordplay)

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Snapshot

Snippety

The quality of being sociable; sociableness.

England's type of government

Sociality

Studier of human communities

Relating to the study of group relationships

SOCIOPATH

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

Softballer

Too compassionate (wordplay)

A bunch of pseuds of the art editor kind

Daftest hero becomes compassionate

Solacement

Loses time in complicated ceremonies

Solicitant

Solicitude

Solidarist

A single player left in dishonour, quit so disgracefully

SOLIPSIST

The act of solfaing.

Feature of this crossword, if you're good

SOLVENT a substance capable of dissolving others

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.

Somatotype

Spring rolls (wordplay)

Takes a turn in the air

Tumbler's feats.

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

Somerset

To some indeterminate place; to some place or other.

Somnolent

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

Fortunetellers

People predicting hot years getting excited in cry for help

Roles in 'Julius Caesar' and 'Antony and Cleopatra'

Job for an oracle

Sootiness

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

Beguiling but tricky methods of reasoning

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

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

SOTTISH resembling a sot

Soubriquet

Soundstage

""A storm, strong wind, or gale coming from the southeast.""

Southerly

Blow one's top in it (wordplay)

Governs, yet somehow holds one dominion

It's signified by a crown

Pre-eminence

SOVIETIZE

Spacecraft

Walk by fellow in subtle NASA mission (wordplay)

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

English word

See antispasmodic .

Spasmodically.

The common yellow water lily (Nuphar advena). Nuphar advena).

Specialist

Neurology, oncology, cardiology, etc.

Speciation

SPECIFIC a remedy intended for a particular disease

Like an elaborate display, perhaps

Show clears up act for broadcasting

One kind of TV show

Heavenly photo

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

Market manipulators

Travelling clock (wordplay)

Sonata instrument (wordplay)

It displays the going rate

Not one to buy with prudence

Extravagantly spending person

Irresponsible user of money

Spermaceti

""A small sac connected with the female reproductive organs of insects and many other invertebrates, serving to receive and retain the spermatozoa.""

""Pl. spermatozoa (-z ) The mature fertilizing gamete of a male organism, usually consisting of a round or cylindrical nucleated cell, a short neck, and a thin motile tail. Also called sperm cell , zoosperm .""

Sperrylite

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

A manganesian variety of garnet.

Sphalerite

""An instrument for measuring the curvature of spherical surface, as of lenses for telescope, etc.""

""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.""

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

Flowers.

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

Splatter

Splayfoot

Spleenwort

Splendid

Pl. splenectomies Surgical removal of the spleen.

When breaking up, maybe slept in before call

Fragmenting

Splotchy