10-letter words containing c, l, o, s, e, n
- pleustonic — a buoyant mat of weeds, algae, and associated organisms that floats on or near the surface of a lake, river, or other body of fresh water.
- pollen sac — one of the cavities in an anther in which pollen is produced.
- postulance — the period or state of being a postulant, especially in a religious order.
- preclusion — to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible: The insufficiency of the evidence precludes a conviction.
- pronucleus — either of the gametic nuclei that unite in fertilization to form the nucleus of the zygote.
- pycnostyle — having an intercolumniation of 1½ diameters.
- reconciles — to cause (a person) to accept or be resigned to something not desired: He was reconciled to his fate.
- resorcinol — a white, needlelike, water-soluble solid, C 6 H 6 O 2 , a benzene derivative originally obtained from certain resins, now usually synthesized: used chiefly in making dyes, as a reagent, in tanning, in the synthesis of certain resins, and in medicine in treating certain skin conditions; meta-dihydroxybenzene.
- saxicoline — living or growing among rocks.
- scale down — a succession or progression of steps or degrees; graduated series: the scale of taxation; the social scale.
- scaloppine — scallops, especially of veal, flattened by pounding and usually dredged in flour or breadcrumbs and sautéed quickly: scaloppine alla Marsala.
- semi-colon — A semi-colon is the punctuation mark ; which is used in writing to separate different parts of a sentence or list or to indicate a pause.
- semicolony — a country which is partly colonial or which is officially independent but which in fact depends on or is dominated by another country
- shackleton — Sir Ernest Henry, 1874–1922, English explorer of the Antarctic.
- silent cop — a small hemispherical traffic marker at an intersection
- skeletonic — resembling a skeleton
- socialness — relating to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations: a social club.
- sock-liner — a thin piece of material, as leather, that is laid on top of the insole of a shoe, boot, or other footwear.
- solacement — a comfort or consolation
- solenocyte — a type of long, narrow, flagellated cell that functions in excretion of nitrogenous wastes and occurs in a variety of organisms, including certain annelids and mollusks.
- solonetzic — characteristic of solonetz
- somnolence — sleepy; drowsy.
- song cycle — a group of art songs that are usually all by the same poet and composer and have a unifying subject or idea.
- sophoclean — 495?–406? b.c, Greek dramatist.
- spongocoel — the central cavity in the body of a sponge.
- stone cold — completely cold
- stone-cold — If something that should be warm is stone-cold, it is very cold.
- synecology — the branch of ecology dealing with the relations between natural communities and their environments.
- toric lens — a lens used to correct astigmatism, having one of its surfaces shaped like part of a torus so that its focal lengths are different in different meridians
- uncloister — to free from confinement of any kind
- uncoalesce — to reverse the process of coalescing; separate
- unconsoled — to alleviate or lessen the grief, sorrow, or disappointment of; give solace or comfort: Only his children could console him when his wife died.
- unenclosed — to shut or hem in; close in on all sides: a valley enclosed by tall mountains.
- unschooled — not schooled, taught, or trained: Though unschooled, he had a grasp of the subject.
- unsociable — not sociable; having, showing, or marked by a disinclination to friendly social relations; withdrawn.
- violescent — tending to a violet color: a violescent twilight sky.