11-Letter Words Starting with S

SPONDYL a {vertebra=n}

Spongeware

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

Unrehearsed, awful panto's no use

Cause of Mr Krook's death

Middle of the resolution

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"

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 ]""

Sporophore

Sporophyll

Sporophyte

""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

Game shows (wordplay)

TV fare

Sportsman

Female athlete or player

Female athlete

A woman who is active in sports.

SPORULATE

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

SPORULATE

With all eyes watching

Program to start making bed (wordplay)

Partly make a bed as a table (wordplay)

Cell block (wordplay)

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

A small storehouse constructed over a spring and used to keep food cool.

Light, bouncy feeling

Springtail

The high seas

Periods of seedings and plantings

Vernal occasions

Clear quaff

Cooler drink

Perrier product

Springwood

Protected from fire by a water system.

Protected from fire by a water system

Sprinkling

Spurgall

Squadron

Filthy and unpleasant condition

Squamation

Squanderer

Wasting recklessly

""The quality or state of being squashy, or soft.""

Squatness

Squatter

Squawfish

Squeamish

Squeegee

Squelchy

Squiggly

Squilgee

Squinting

Empty Sunday penning paper on bridge rule

SQUIRREL to store up for future use

Squirrel

Abstract noun (-ness)

Squooshy

Stability

Stabilizer

STABILIZE

People in the same company shifting blame among countries

Stablish

""Formerly, the chief magistrate of the United Provinces of Holland; also, the governor or lieutenant governor of a province.""

Stagecraft

Longing to take part (wordplay)

Obsessed with the theater

Longing to act when lorry hounds coaches

Worrisome economic period

Bad economic situation

Challenge for economists

""An American shrub (Andromeda Mariana) having clusters of nodding white flowers. It grows in low, sandy places, and is said to poison lambs and calves. Andromeda Mariana) having clusters of nodding white flowers. It grows in low, sandy places, and is said to poison lambs and calves.""

Staginess

Stagnancy

Stagnation

Staidness

Stainless

In a stainless manner.

One with an interest in (say) society

One with an interest (in something)

Part-owner, say

Mammoth hangings (wordplay)

Downers (wordplay)

Certain roof hangings

""STALACTITE A pendent cone or cylinder of calcium carbonate resembling an icicle in form and mode of attachment. Stalactites are found depending from the roof or sides of caverns, and are produced by deposition from waters which have percolated through, and partially dissolved, the overlying limestone rocks.""

Nuisance at a POW camp (wordplay)

Uppers (wordplay)

Features of some caves

""STALAGMITE A deposit more or less resembling an inverted stalactite, formed by calcareous water dropping on the floors of caverns; hence, a similar deposit of other material.""

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.

Staleness

Tradesman may be a theatre-goer

""An abortive stamen, or any organ modified from an abortive stamen.""

Stanchion

Idea strand? (anagram)

Make uniform and a dress with it, possibly

'Get up, get up!', to welcome duke's regiment

Create norms for

Cause to conform to a norm

Make identical

Like the cold seafood seller (wordplay)

Aloof, with pets in it (wordplay)

Piscine kiosk (wordplay)

Tolerate a sideshow barker (wordplay)

Opponent of change in policy.

Conservative Colloq

Standpoint

Tolerate Stephen's music (wordplay)

Stalemates

Stoppages

Any rove beetle.

Starboard

Stiffness of manner

Formality

Starflower

Stargazing

Starkness

Noun (-ment)

In a startling manner.

Starvation

Starveling

Statecraft

Structures at Albany, Trenton, etc.

Capitols

Grandeur of railways in USA

Dignified and imposing quality

Grandeur shown by gallery products on board

Befitting a respected politician

Word with analysis or significance

Relating to the analysis of data

Relating to data analysis

Statoblast

Statoscope

Statutory

""STAUNCH to stop the flow of blood, also STANCH""

Staurolite

Of or pertaining to staurolite; resembling or containing staurolite.

Stavesacre

With resolute determination

Unwaveringly

Firm demolished flats internally with determination

Stealthy

""One who installs and repairs heating, ventilating, refrigerating, and air-conditioning systems.""

Defeated and then some

Whupped and then some

Overwhelming power, as used in politics

Political machine of a sort.

Crush opposition, politically speaking.

""Body, Human""

""Body, Human""

Overaction of the sebaceous glands.

Bessemer-converter owners

Present participle or gerund

Man in Bethlehem (wordplay)

Bridge builder

See hardhack .

TV presenter Fred Dibnah's day job

Tall chimney repairer

Worker on tall chimneys etc

Steepness

Pilot's concern

Sort of dinosaur

Dinosaur with bony plates along the back

Godzilla, in part

Stellify

Stenciller

Art form

STENOBATH

Tool for the working girl.

Secretary's forte

Shorthand writing

Limited to or able to live only within a narrow range of saltwater concentrations. Used of aquatic organisms.

Stenotherm

Stenotypy

STENOTYPE

STENOTYPE

Relative by marriage

Relative to walk with hassle round river

Upset Herbert's top relative

New additions to the family, sometimes

Ones joining the family

Tropical climbing plant

House painters' aids

Roofers' gear

Paperhangers' needs

Fairy tale characters.

Some remarried women

They've joined the family

Relatives by marriage

Cinderella had two

3-D pictures.

A flat representation of a 3-D original

Three-D picture

3-D picture.

Twin-channel sound

Device offering 3-D viewing

It provides outstanding images

Three-D viewer

Viewing in 3-D

""A method in neurosurgery and neurological research for locating points within the brain using an external, three-dimensional frame of reference usually based on the Cartesian coordinate system.""

Conforming to stock idea

Conforming to a stock image

Tired Tory with deep-set disorder

""One who stereotypes; one who makes stereotype plates, or works in a stereotype foundry.""

Hackneyed expressions, for example.

Sees pottery cast in moulds

Film heroes, often

Like a stock image

Conventional

Sterility

Sterilizer

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

Sternness

""A substance that irritates the nasal and respiratory passages and causes coughing, sneezing, lacrimation, and sometimes vomiting.""

It can pick the beat up (wordplay)

Medical instrument that scoops teeth out

It will find a broken heart

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

Management or care (of something)

Administration of property, finance etc

Management employing waitress with PhD

Drama ()

To manoeuvre (the puck) deftly in ice hockey

Fish taking seconds to amuse, returned

Small spiny fish

Loot's bound to excite British swimmer

Sticktight

Stiffness

Stigmatist

""STIGMATIZE To mark with a stigma, or brand; as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers. as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers.""

Puts a bad rap on

DES.

Stiletto

Stillbirth

Stillness

STILTED stilt

Inspiring new enthusiasm

Animating, exciting

Imitative behaviour, over time, likely to provoke reaction

Process of arousal or goading

Model welcomes tip for tantric arousal

Nerve impulse cause

Invigorating.

Stimulator

STIMULATOR One who stimulates.

Working for regular pay

Paid magistrate

It's back to the accounts' book to write in 'paid'

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

Condition of an agreement

Condition to an agreement

Condition attached to an agreement

Stipulator

""STIPULATOR One who stipulates, contracts, or covenants.""

Stitchery

Stitchwort

Wholesale plant grower or cattleman?

Dealer with bulls and bears.

Cher (wordplay)

Stockfish

Ranch owner (wordplay)

Reader of "quotations."

Owner of funds in a company

Stretch fabric for making bandages etc

Stretchy fabric

Former finance worker

Warehouse worker

Stockpiler

Storing up

Retailer's task - shoplifting (wordplay)

Evaluation of unsold goods

Stolidity

Serious whale ailment (wordplay)

Overeater's woe

Overeater's risk

Stomatopod

Stomodaeum

Secret society member in an episode of "The Simpsons"

Secret society member in an episode of 'The Simpsons'