11-letter words containing a, l, s, t, o
- st.-leonard — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada: suburb of Montreal.
- stable door — a door with an upper and lower leaf that may be opened separately
- stadtholder — stadholder.
- stagflation — an inflationary period accompanied by rising unemployment and lack of growth in consumer demand and business activity.
- stakeholder — the holder of the stakes of a wager.
- stallholder — A stallholder is a person who sells goods at a stall in a market.
- stand-alone — self-contained and able to operate without other hardware or software.
- stanislawow — Polish name of Ivano-Frankovsk.
- stary oskol — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, SW of Voronezh.
- statcoulomb — the electrostatic unit of a quantity of electricity, equivalent to 3.3356 × 10 −10 coulomb and equal to the quantity of charge transferred in one second across a conductor in which there is a constant current of one statampere.
- statutorily — of, relating to, or of the nature of a statute.
- steamroller — a heavy steam-powered vehicle having a roller for crushing, compacting, or leveling materials used for a road or the like.
- steatolysis — the digestive process whereby fats are emulsified and then hydrolysed to fatty acids and glycerine
- stellarator — an experimental plasma-physics device in which magnetic fields confine the plasma within a tube shaped like a figure eight.
- stellionate — any crime of unspecified class that involves fraud, especially one that involves the selling of the same property to different people.
- stenohaline — (of an aquatic organism) unable to withstand wide variation in salinity of the surrounding water.
- stereocilia — any of the long, flexible microvilli that superficially resemble cilia and occur as a brush border or series of tufts on the surface of various epithelial tissues.
- stick float — a float attached at the top and bottom to the line
- stimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- stipulation — a condition, demand, or promise in an agreement or contract.
- stokes' law — the law that the force that retards a sphere moving through a viscous fluid is directly proportional to the velocity of the sphere, the radius of the sphere, and the viscosity of the fluid.
- stomachless — lacking or not having a stomach
- stomatology — the science dealing with the mouth and its diseases.
- stone canal — (in certain echinoderms) a tube lined with calcareous deposits, connecting the madreporite with a circular canal around the mouth.
- stone plant — living stones.
- stonewaller — to engage in stonewalling.
- stony coral — a true coral consisting of numerous anthozoan polyps embedded in the calcareous material that they secrete.
- stoop labor — the physical labor associated with the cultivation or picking of crops in farm fields, especially as performed by poorly paid, unskilled workers.
- storability — capable of being stored for considerable time without loss of freshness or usability.
- storm glass — a sealed tube containing a solution supposed to change in appearance according to the weather
- strand wolf — brown hyena.
- strandloper — a member of an extinct tribe of Khoikhoi or Bushmen who lived on seafood gathered on the beaches of southern Africa
- straw color — a pale yellow similar to the color of straw.
- strawflower — any of several everlasting flowers, especially an Australian composite plant, Helichrysum bracteatum, having heads of chaffy yellow, orange, red, or white flowers.
- stroke play — medal play.
- strombolian — relating to or denoting a type of volcanic eruption characterized by repeated fountaining or jetting of fluid lava into the air
- strong gale — a wind of 47–54 miles per hour (21–24 m/sec).
- studio flat — a flat with one main room
- stylization — to design in or cause to conform to a particular style, as of representation or treatment in art; conventionalize.
- stylography — the art of writing, tracing, drawing, etc., with a style.
- sub-optimal — being below an optimal level or standard.
- subcortical — situated beneath the cortex.
- sublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- sublittoral — of or relating to the biogeographic region of the ocean bottom between the littoral and bathyal zones, from the low water line to the edge of the continental shelf, or to a depth of approximately 660 feet (200 meters).
- subluxation — a partial dislocation, as of a joint; sprain.
- subnational — of, relating to, or maintained by a nation as an organized whole or independent political unit: national affairs.
- subrational — less than or almost rational.
- subtropical — bordering on the tropics; nearly tropical.
- sulfonation — the process of attaching the sulfonic acid group, –SO 3 H, directly to carbon in an organic compound.
- sulfuration — to combine, treat, or impregnate with sulfur, the fumes of burning sulfur, etc.