10-letter words containing a, n, t, e, l
- standalone — self-contained and able to operate without other hardware or software.
- staphyline — having a form resembling a bunch of grapes
- staple gun — a machine for fastening together sheets of paper or the like, with wire staples.
- starveling — a person, animal, or plant that is starving.
- state line — A state line is a border between two states within a country.
- stealingly — in a stealthy or elusive manner; by stealing
- steel band — a band, native to Trinidad and common in the West Indies, using steel drums cut to various heights and tuned to specific pitches.
- sternalgia — pain occurring in or around the sternum
- sternalgic — relating to or having sternalgia
- strainedly — in a strained manner
- strainless — to draw tight or taut, especially to the utmost tension; stretch to the full: to strain a rope.
- strandline — a mark left by the high tide or a line of seaweed and other debris washed onto the beach by the tide
- stranglers — to kill by squeezing the throat in order to compress the windpipe and prevent the intake of air, as with the hands or a tightly drawn cord.
- streamline — a teardrop line of contour offering the least possible resistance to a current of air, water, etc.
- streamling — a small stream
- suaveolent — fragrant or sweet-smelling
- subcentral — near or almost to the center.
- substernal — of or relating to the sternum.
- sulphonate — a salt or ester of any sulphonic acid containing the ion RSO2O– or the group RSO2O–, R being an organic group
- sunset law — a statute that includes provision for automatic termination of a government program, agency, etc., at the end of a specified time period unless it is reauthorized by the legislature.
- supplanted — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
- supplanter — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
- sutherland — Earl Wilbur, Jr. 1915–74, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1971.
- tabernacle — any place or house of worship, especially one designed for a large congregation.
- tablanette — a variation of the card game cassino
- table corn — Chiefly Eastern U.S. sweet corn.
- table wine — a wine that contains not more than 14 percent alcohol and is usually served as an accompaniment to food.
- tablemount — guyot
- tablespoon — a spoon larger than a teaspoon or a dessert spoon, used in serving food at the table and as a standard measuring unit in recipes.
- tabletting — a number of sheets of writing paper, business forms, etc., fastened together at the edge; pad.
- tail plane — horizontal stabilizer.
- take-along — intended or suitable for taking along, as on a trip: take-along snacks for long car trips.
- talentless — not having any talent or special gift or ability
- talibanize — to make (an organization) resemble the Taliban or portray (an organization) as being like the Taliban, in that it is seen to restrict personal freedom and punish opposition ruthlessly
- talk sense — If you say that someone talks sense, you mean that what they say is sensible.
- talleyrand — (born Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord) Prince of Benevento 1754-1838; Fr. statesman & diplomat
- tangential — pertaining to or of the nature of a tangent; being or moving in the direction of a tangent.
- tanglefoot — a potent alcoholic drink
- tanglement — to bring together into a mass of confusedly interlaced or intertwisted threads, strands, or other like parts; snarl.
- tanglesome — tangled
- tanglewood — a town in W Massachusetts, in the Berkshire Hills: a former estate (Tanglewood) in the area is the site of annual summer music festivals.
- tantalised — to torment with, or as if with, the sight of something desired but out of reach; tease by arousing expectations that are repeatedly disappointed.
- tantalized — to torment with, or as if with, the sight of something desired but out of reach; tease by arousing expectations that are repeatedly disappointed.
- tarantella — a rapid, whirling southern Italian dance in very quick sextuple, originally quadruple, meter, usually performed by a single couple, and formerly supposed to be a remedy for tarantism.
- tau lepton — an unstable lepton with a mass approximately 3500 times that of the electron. Symbol: T.
- tegumental — a covering or vestment; integument.
- tel amarna — a village in central Egypt, on the Nile: site of the ancient Egyptian city of Akhetaton; extensive excavations.
- telenovela — (in Latin America and Hispanic communities) a television soap opera, usually having a limited number of episodes.
- teleostean — a fish of the order Teleostei
- telpherman — someone who operates or works on a telpher