11-letter words containing a, s, o, l, u
- saint-louis — a port in E Missouri, on the Mississippi.
- salaciously — lustful or lecherous.
- salicaceous — belonging to the Salicaceae, the willow family of plants.
- salon music — music of a simple, agreeable, frequently sentimental character, played usually by a small orchestra.
- salsuginous — full of salt or able to grow in salty soil
- salting out — the addition of salt to a mixture to precipitate proteins, soaps, and other simple organic compounds.
- salting-out — Salting-out is the effect when adding a salt to a solvent containing an organic solute reduces the solubility of that solute.
- salutations — the act of saluting.
- sansculotte — (originally) a revolutionary of the poorer class
- sapiosexual — a person who finds intelligence to be a sexually attractive quality in others.
- saul bellow — Saul, 1915–2005, U.S. novelist, born in Canada: Nobel Prize in Literature 1976.
- scaberulous — tending to be scabrous or slightly rough to the touch
- scarf cloud — pileus (def 3).
- sceuophylax — a keeper of sacred vessels
- sclerocauly — the feature of having a hard, dry stem
- scrobicular — of or relating to the smooth areas on a sea urchin surrounding its nodules
- semelparous — (of a plant) producing flowers and fruit only once before dying
- semipopular — relatively popular; quite popular
- serrulation — serrulate condition or form.
- shroud-laid — noting a fiber rope of four strands laid right-handed with or without a heart.
- sioux falls — a city in SE South Dakota.
- situational — manner of being situated; location or position with reference to environment: The situation of the house allowed for a beautiful view.
- slop around — to spill or splash (liquid).
- small hours — pre-dawn
- soap bubble — a bubble of soapsuds.
- soap-bubble — a bubble of soapsuds.
- social club — A social club is a club where members go in order to meet each other and enjoy leisure activities.
- social fund — (in Britain) a social security fund from which loans or payments may be made to people in cases of extreme need
- social unit — a person or a group of persons, as a family, functioning as a unit in society.
- sociosexual — of or relating to relationships between persons that involve sexuality.
- soft launch — the launch of a website in stages, with regular updating
- solanaceous — belonging to the Solanaceae, the nightshade family of plants.
- solar house — a house designed to absorb and store solar heat.
- soldatesque — of or relating to a soldier
- soluble rna — a small RNA molecule, consisting of a strand of nucleotides folded into a clover-leaf shape, that picks up an unattached amino acid within the cell cytoplasm and conveys it to the ribosome for protein synthesis. Abbreviation: tRNA.
- somnambular — relating to sleep-walking
- soul-baring — confessing intimate thoughts
- sound-alike — a person or thing that resembles another in sound
- south wales — an area of Wales bordered by England and the Bristol Channel to the east and south, and Mid Wales and West Wales to the north and west. Includes the capital city, Cardiff, as well as Swansea and Newport. Welsh name: De Cymru
- southlander — a person from the south
- southwardly — toward the south
- specialogue — a mail-order catalogue aimed at a specific group of customers
- speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
- speculatory — a place suitable for observation
- spiculation — formation into spicules.
- sporulation — to produce spores.
- sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation
- 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.
- stimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.