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11-letter words containing a, n, l, i, s, e

  • semi-annual — occurring, done, or published every half year or twice a year; semiyearly.
  • semi-normal — conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural.
  • semidiurnal — pertaining to, consisting of, or accomplished in half a day.
  • seminatural — partly natural and partly cultivated
  • sempiternal — everlasting; eternal.
  • senate bill — a proposed new law introduced for debate before the upper chamber of the legislature in, for example, the US, Canada, Australia, etc
  • sensational — producing or designed to produce a startling effect, strong reaction, intense interest, etc., especially by exaggerated, superficial, or lurid elements: a sensational novel.
  • sensorially — with respect to sensation; in a sensorial way
  • sentimental — expressive of or appealing to sentiment, especially the tender emotions and feelings, as love, pity, or nostalgia: a sentimental song.
  • septivalent — having a valence of seven; heptavalent.
  • serrulation — serrulate condition or form.
  • sertularian — a type of hydroid that forms stiff, feathery colonies in which the cups holding the zooids are sessile.
  • sesquiplane — a biplane having one wing with not more than half the surface area of the other wing.
  • sex linkage — an association between genes in sex chromosomes such that the characteristics determined by these genes appear more frequently in one sex than in the other.
  • sex-linkage — an association between genes in sex chromosomes such that the characteristics determined by these genes appear more frequently in one sex than in the other.
  • shared line — a telephone number that is assigned to more than one person, for example in an office. When somebody calls the number, all of the phones will ring until somebody picks up their phone to answer the call
  • sharonville — a town in SW Ohio.
  • shaving gel — product that softens hair growth for shaving
  • shellacking — lac that has been purified and formed into thin sheets, used for making varnish.
  • sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
  • shingle oak — an oak, Quercus imbricaria, yielding a wood used for shingles, clapboards, etc.
  • shinplaster — a plaster for the shin or leg.
  • side glance — a look sideways at someone or something
  • side-glance — a glance directed to the side; an oblique or sideways look: a side-glance of displeasure at her interrupter.
  • sidewalking — the practice of shopkeepers standing on the sidewalk outside their shops to attract customers.
  • sillimanite — a mineral, aluminum silicate, Al 2 SiO 5 , occurring in the form of long, slender, and often fibrous crystals.
  • silvestrian — of or relating to woodland
  • simnel cake — any of several kinds of rich fruitcake covered with almond paste.
  • single malt — a type of whisky that is made at a single distillery and from one type of malted grain
  • single tape — a ribbon of material, usually with a plastic base, coated on one side (single tape) or both sides (double tape) with a substance containing iron oxide, to make it sensitive to impulses from an electromagnet: used to record sound, images, data, etc.
  • single-hand — to sail (a craft) without help from others.
  • single-malt — (of whiskey, especially Scotch) made from unblended malt whiskey distilled at one distillery.
  • singles bar — a bar or tavern catering to a clientele composed chiefly of single men and women, especially those seeking a lover or spouse.
  • singletrack — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
  • singularize — to make singular.
  • singulative — a grammatical form or construction that expresses a singular entity or indicates that an individual is singled out from a group, especially as opposed to a collective noun, as snowflake as opposed to snow.
  • sir stanley — Arthur Penrhyn [pen-rin] /ˈpɛn rɪn/ (Show IPA), (Dean Stanley) 1815–81, English clergyman and author.
  • slaveringly — in a slavering manner
  • slavishness — of or befitting a slave: slavish subjection.
  • snail fever — schistosomiasis.
  • snail shell — the spirally coiled shell of a snail
  • snail-paced — slow of pace or motion, like a snail; sluggish.
  • snailflower — a tropical vine, Vigna caracalla, of the legume family, having fragrant, yellowish or purplish flowers, a segment of which is shaped like a snail's shell.
  • soldier ant — a type of ant that has a disproportionately large head
  • solid angle — an angle formed by three or more planes intersecting in a common point or formed at the vertex of a cone.
  • sound-alike — a person or thing that resembles another in sound
  • soybean oil — a pale-yellow oil derived from soybeans by expression or solvent extraction: used as a food and in the manufacture of soap, candles, inks, paints, varnishes, etc.
  • speculating — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
  • speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
  • spinachlike — resembling or characteristic of spinach
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