10-letter words containing a, l, o, t, s
- loadmaster — an aircrew member responsible for the loading and stowage of cargo aboard an aircraft.
- loan-shift — change or extension of the meaning of a word through the influence of a foreign word, as in the application in English of the meaning “profession” to the word calling through the influence of Latin vocātio.
- loathesome — Misspelling of loathsome.
- lobsterman — a person who traps lobsters.
- localities — Plural form of locality.
- lockmaster — one in charge of a canal lock
- logansport — a city in N Indiana, on the Wabash River.
- logarithms — Plural form of logarithm.
- logistical — of or relating to logistics.
- long-coats — dress-like garments formerly worn by a baby
- loom-state — (of a woven cotton fabric) not yet dyed
- loon pants — trousers that flare from the knee
- loquatious — Misspelling of loquacious.
- loremaster — (chiefly, fantasy) A wise person with knowledge of history, genealogy and ancient poetry and possibly magic as well.
- lose caste — to lose social status or position
- lose heart — to become despondent or disillusioned (over something)
- lose track — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- loss ratio — the ratio of the losses paid or accrued by an insurer to premiums earned, usually for a period of one year.
- lost cause — a cause that has been defeated or whose defeat is inevitable.
- lotus land — the land of the lotus-eaters, or any fabulous, dreamlike setting
- lovastatin — a drug, C 24 H 36 O 8 , that reduces the levels of fats in the blood by altering the enzyme activity in the liver that produces lipids.
- love feast — (among the early Christians) a meal eaten in token of brotherly love and charity; agape.
- lower mast — the lowermost spar of a compound mast, stepped in the hull of a vessel and carrying a topmast and any other upper spars.
- lustration — to purify by a propitiatory offering or other ceremonial method.
- maelstroms — Plural form of maelstrom.
- mast cloth — a partial lining sewed to the back of a square sail to prevent chafing from contact with the mast.
- matchlocks — Plural form of matchlock.
- mesoblasts — Plural form of mesoblast.
- mesolectal — any variety of language in a creole continuum that is intermediate between the basilect and the acrolect.
- mesothelia — Plural form of mesothelium.
- metabolise — Alternative spelling of metabolize.
- metabolism — Biology, Physiology. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Compare anabolism, catabolism.
- metalloids — Plural form of metalloid.
- metalworks — Plural form of metalwork.
- milk-toast — easily dominated; extremely mild; ineffectual; namby-pamby; wishy-washy.
- miscatalog — to enter in a catalogue incorrectly
- mislocated — to misplace.
- modalities — the quality or state of being modal.
- modulators — Plural form of modulator.
- molalities — Plural form of molality.
- molarities — Plural form of molarity.
- molestache — (slang, rare) A type of mustache supposedly associated with child molesters.
- molybdates — Plural form of molybdate.
- monastical — Alternative form of monastic.
- monostable — (of an electric or electronic circuit) having only one stable state.
- monostylar — having or comprising a sole upright or pillar
- moralistic — a person who teaches or inculcates morality.
- moralities — Plural form of morality.
- mortal sin — a willfully committed, serious transgression against the law of God, depriving the soul of divine grace.
- mortalised — Simple past tense and past participle of mortalise.