11-letter words containing a, l, o, n, e, s
- ganglioside — any of a class of glycolipids, found chiefly in nerve ganglia, that upon hydrolysis yield sphingosine, neuraminic acid, a fatty acid, and a monosaccharide.
- genealogies — A line of descent traced continuously from an ancestor.
- genealogist — a record or account of the ancestry and descent of a person, family, group, etc.
- genioplasty — Mentoplasty.
- gestational — the process, state, or period of gestating.
- glucokinase — an enzyme, found in all living systems, that serves to catalyze the phosphorylation of gluconic acid.
- glucosamine — an aminosugar occurring in many polysaccharides of vertebrate tissue and also as the major component of chitin.
- goaltenders — Plural form of goaltender.
- grandiosely — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- half nelson — a hold in which a wrestler, from behind the opponent, passes one arm under the corresponding arm of the opponent and locks the hand on the back of the opponent's neck.
- half-nelson — a hold in which a wrestler, from behind the opponent, passes one arm under the corresponding arm of the opponent and locks the hand on the back of the opponent's neck.
- half-second — 1/120 of a minute of time
- heptathlons — Plural form of heptathlon.
- hollandaise — The hollandaise sauce.
- horn clause — (logic) A set of atomic literals with at most one positive literal. Usually written L <- L1, ..., Ln or <- L1, ..., Ln where n>=0, "<-" means "is implied by" and comma stands for conjuction ("AND"). If L is false the clause is regarded as a goal. Horn clauses can express a subset of statements of first order logic. The name "Horn Clause" comes from the logician Alfred Horn, who first pointed out the significance of such clauses in 1951, in the article "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras", Journal of Symbolic Logic, 16, 14-21. A definite clause is a Horn clause that has exactly one positive literal.
- house plant — an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.
- house-clean — to clean the inside of a person's house
- houselander — Caryll [kar-uh l] /ˈkær əl/ (Show IPA), 1901–54, English writer on Roman Catholicism.
- houseplants — Plural form of houseplant.
- hudson seal — muskrat fur that has been plucked and dyed to give the appearance of seal.
- hydroplanes — Plural form of hydroplane.
- inosculated — Simple past tense and past participle of inosculate.
- inosculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inosculate.
- inosilicate — any silicate having a structure consisting of paired parallel chains of tetrahedral silicate groups, every other of which shares an oxygen atom with a group of the other chain, the ratio of silicon to oxygen being 4 to 11.
- insertional — That involves insertion.
- insessorial — adapted for perching, as a bird's foot.
- intensional — intensification; increase in degree.
- inter alios — among other persons.
- intercostal — pertaining to muscles, parts, or intervals between the ribs.
- interosseal — interosseous
- intersocial — relating to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations: a social club.
- intolerants — not tolerating or respecting beliefs, opinions, usages, manners, etc., different from one's own, as in political or religious matters; bigoted.
- isle of man — Isle of, an island of the British Isles, in the Irish Sea. 227 sq. mi. (588 sq. km). Capital: Douglas.
- jealousness — feeling resentment against someone because of that person's rivalry, success, or advantages (often followed by of): He was jealous of his rich brother.
- juan flores — Juan José [hwahn haw-se] /ʰwɑn hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1800–64, Ecuadorian general and statesman: president 1830–35, 1839–45.
- keogh plans — a pension plan for an unincorporated business entity or self-employed person.
- kinetoplast — A mass of mitochondrial DNA lying close to the nucleus in some flagellate protozoa.
- knoop scale — a scale of hardness based on the indentation made in the material to be tested by a diamond point.
- kostelanetz — André [ahn-drey] /ˈɑn dreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1901–80, U.S. orchestra conductor and pianist, born in Russia.
- lacerations — Plural form of laceration.
- lake salmon — landlocked salmon.
- landholders — Plural form of landholder.
- langoustine — a large prawn, Nephrops norvegicus, used for food.
- larcenously — In a larcenous manner.
- launch shoe — an attachment to an aircraft from which a missile is launched
- lay eyes on — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
- leap second — Coordinated Universal Time
- legionaries — Plural form of legionary.
- legislation — the act of making or enacting laws.
- lemon grass — any of several lemon-scented grasses of the genus Cymbopogon, especially C. citratus, of tropical regions, yielding lemon-grass oil.