11-letter words containing e, a, s, t, r
- last supper — the supper of Jesus and His disciples on the eve of His Crucifixion. Compare Lord's Supper (def 1).
- lateralised — Simple past tense and past participle of lateralise.
- lateritious — of the color of brick; brick-red.
- lay to rest — the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep: a good night's rest.
- lead astray — tempt into bad behaviour
- leafleteers — Plural form of leafleteer.
- least shrew — a small, brownish shrew, Cryptotis parva, of grassy regions of the eastern U.S.
- least-worst — bad but better than any available alternative
- leatherfish — a filefish.
- legislators — Plural form of legislator.
- legislatrix — a woman who is a member of a legislature.
- legislature — a deliberative body of persons, usually elective, who are empowered to make, change, or repeal the laws of a country or state; the branch of government having the power to make laws, as distinguished from the executive and judicial branches of government.
- lepromatous — the swollen lesion of leprosy.
- leptospiral — relating to, caused by, or characteristic of leptospires
- letterheads — Plural form of letterhead.
- letterspace — to space out (the letters of a word or line) for balance or emphasis.
- lex scripta — written law; statute law.
- liberalists — the quality or state of being liberal, as in behavior or attitude.
- line starve — (MIT, opposite of line feed) 1. To feed paper through a printer the wrong way by one line (most printers can't do this). On a display terminal, to move the cursor up to the previous line of the screen. "To print "X squared", you just output "X", line starve, "2", line feed." (The line starve causes the "2" to appear on the line above the "X", and the line feed gets back to the original line.) 2. A character (or character sequence) that causes a terminal to perform this action. ASCII 26, also called SUB or control-Z, was one common line-starve character in the days before microcomputers and the X3.64 terminal standard. Unlike "line feed", "line starve" is *not* standard ASCII terminology. Even among hackers it is considered silly. 3. (Proposed) A sequence such as \c (used in System V echo, as well as nroff and troff) that suppresses a newline or other character(s) that would normally be emitted.
- linearities — Plural form of linearity.
- literalness — in accordance with, involving, or being the primary or strict meaning of the word or words; not figurative or metaphorical: the literal meaning of a word.
- literaryism — habitual use of literary forms
- literatures — writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays.
- littermates — Plural form of littermate.
- little sark — one of the Channel Islands, in the English Channel E of Guernsey, connected to Sark by a natural causeway.
- liver salts — a preparation of mineral salts used to treat indigestion
- lobsterback — redcoat.
- lotus-eater — Classical Mythology. a member of a people whom Odysseus found existing in a state of languorous forgetfulness induced by their eating of the fruit of the legendary lotus; one of the lotophagi.
- lutheranism — of or relating to Luther, adhering to his doctrines, or belonging to one of the Protestant churches that bear his name.
- lythraceous — belonging to the Lythraceae, the loosestrife family of plants.
- macrophytes — Plural form of macrophyte.
- macrosystem — A programming system in which small constructs (macros) represent groups of machine instructions.
- magisterial — of, relating to, or befitting a master; authoritative; weighty; of importance or consequence: a magisterial pronouncement by the director of the board.
- magisterium — the authority and power of the church to teach religious truth.
- magistrates — Plural form of magistrate.
- maidservant — a female servant.
- main street — a novel (1920) by Sinclair Lewis.
- mains water — gas supplied to a building through pipes
- mainstreams — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mainstream.
- maintainers — Plural form of maintainer.
- make tracks — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- malefactors — Plural form of malefactor.
- maltotriose — (carbohydrate) A maltooligosaccharide consisting of three glucose units.
- mandataries — Plural form of mandatary.
- mandatories — authoritatively ordered; obligatory; compulsory: It is mandatory that all students take two years of math.
- manneristic — a habitual or characteristic manner, mode, or way of doing something; distinctive quality or style, as in behavior or speech: He has an annoying mannerism of tapping his fingers while he talks. They copied his literary mannerisms but always lacked his ebullience.
- manteltrees — Plural form of manteltree.
- mare's-nest — something imagined to be an extraordinary discovery but proving to be a delusion or a hoax: The announced cure for the disease was merely another mare's-nest.
- mare's-tail — a long narrow cirrus cloud whose flowing appearance somewhat resembles a horse's tail.
- margravates — Plural form of margravate.