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11-letter words containing e, s, c, a, l, t

  • lack-luster — lacking brilliance or radiance; dull: lackluster eyes.
  • lactiferous — producing or secreting milk: lactiferous glands.
  • lactometers — Plural form of lactometer.
  • lancet fish — any large, marine fish of the genus Alepisaurus, having daggerlike teeth.
  • landsknecht — a European mercenary foot soldier of the 16th century, armed with a pike or halberd.
  • languescent — becoming languid
  • lapidescent — in the process of changing into stone
  • law society — association of lawyers
  • leaf insect — any of several orthopterous insects of the family Phillidae, of southern Asia and the East Indies, having a body that resembles a leaf in color and form.
  • lecithinase — An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of lecithin.
  • legal costs — the costs of a court action; the judge decides which side should pay them
  • letterspace — to space out (the letters of a word or line) for balance or emphasis.
  • leucoplasts — Plural form of leucoplast.
  • lex scripta — written law; statute law.
  • licentiates — Plural form of licentiate.
  • lifecasting — The creation of a three-dimensional copy of a living body by means of molding and casting techniques.
  • linecasting — the casting of an entire line of type in a slug.
  • lobsterback — redcoat.
  • locust bean — carob.
  • lythraceous — belonging to the Lythraceae, the loosestrife family of plants.
  • malcontents — Plural form of malcontent.
  • malefactors — Plural form of malefactor.
  • maltese cat — a bluish-gray variety of the domestic cat.
  • masterclass — a small class for advanced students, especially a class in performance skills conducted by a distinguished musician.
  • matchlessly — In a matchless manner.
  • melanocytes — Plural form of melanocyte.
  • mentalistic — the doctrine that objects of knowledge have no existence except in the mind of the perceiver.
  • meroblastic — (of certain eggs) undergoing partial cleavage, resulting in unequal blastomeres.
  • mesoblastic — (biology) of, relating to, or resembling the mesoblast.
  • metacarpals — Plural form of metacarpal.
  • metaplasmic — Cell Biology. the nonliving matter or inclusions, as starch or pigments, within a cell.
  • metaplastic — the transformation of one type of tissue into another.
  • misallocate — to allocate mistakenly or improperly: to misallocate resources.
  • misch metal — a pyrophoric alloy, containing approximately 50 percent cerium and 45 percent lanthanum, made from a mixture of various rare-earth chlorides by electrolysis.
  • most-caller — (of fruit, fish, vegetables, etc.) fresh; recently picked or caught.
  • multiaccess — a system in which several users are permitted to have apparently simultaneous access to a computer
  • multicasted — Transmitted in the form of a multicast.
  • musculature — the muscular system of the body or of its parts.
  • neosilicate — (chemistry) any simple silicate mineral in which the SiO4 tetrahedra are isolated and have metal ions as neighbours.
  • new castile — a region in central Spain: formerly a province. 27,933 sq. mi. (72,346 sq. km).
  • nonsilicate — Mineralogy. any of the largest group of mineral compounds, as quartz, beryl, garnet, feldspar, mica, and various kinds of clay, consisting of SiO 2 or SiO 4 groupings and one or more metallic ions, with some forms containing hydrogen. Silicates constitute well over 90 percent of the rock-forming minerals of the earth's crust.
  • nose tackle — nose guard
  • obstetrical — of or relating to the care and treatment of women in childbirth and during the period before and after delivery.
  • occidentals — Plural form of occidental.
  • old castile — a region in N Spain: formerly a province.
  • olfactories — of or relating to the sense of smell: olfactory organs.
  • orthoclases — Plural form of orthoclase.
  • oscillative — disposed to oscillation
  • osteoclases — Plural form of osteoclasis.
  • osteoclasis — Physiology. the breaking down or absorption of osseous tissue.
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