11-letter words containing e, s, l
- crinkliness — The state or quality of being crinkly.
- cross swell — a movement of the sea at right angles to a major current
- cross-slide — the part of a lathe or planing machine on which the tool post is mounted and across which it slides at right angles to the bed of the lathe
- crosslegged — Alternative spelling of cross-legged.
- crude steel — unrefined steel
- crumbliness — The state of being crumbly.
- crystal set — an early form of radio receiver having a crystal detector to demodulate the radio signals but no amplifier, therefore requiring earphones
- crystal tea — a bog shrub, Ledum palustre, of the heath family, found from the North Temperate Zone to the Arctic Circle, having leaves that are rust-colored and hairy beneath with rolled margins, and dense clusters of white flowers.
- crystalised — Simple past tense and past participle of crystalise.
- crystalized — Simple past tense and past participle of crystalize.
- crystalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of crystalize.
- crystallike — a clear, transparent mineral or glass resembling ice.
- crystalline — A crystalline substance is in the form of crystals or contains crystals.
- crystallise — to form into crystals; cause to assume crystalline form.
- crystallite — any of the minute rudimentary or imperfect crystals occurring in many glassy rocks
- crystallize — If you crystallize an opinion or idea, or if it crystallizes, it becomes fixed and definite in someone's mind.
- cudgellings — beatings with a cudgel
- culdoscopes — Plural form of culdoscope.
- culmiferous — (of grasses) having a hollow jointed stem
- cultishness — the quality of being cultish
- cultureless — Devoid of culture.
- cunobelinus — also called Cymbeline. died ?42 ad, British ruler of the Catuvellauni tribe (?10–?42); founder of Colchester (?10)
- curableness — The quality or state of being curable.
- curie's law — the principle that the magnetic susceptibility of a paramagnetic substance is inversely proportional to its thermodynamic temperature
- curtainless — without a curtain or curtains
- cushionless — without a cushion
- cutaneously — In a cutaneous way.
- cuttlebones — Plural form of cuttlebone.
- cyberselves — Plural form of cyberself.
- cyberskills — Skills in using computer technology.
- cyclometers — Plural form of cyclometer.
- cycloserine — an antibiotic effective in the treatment of tuberculosis
- cyclostomes — Plural form of cyclostome.
- cyclostyled — Simple past tense and past participle of cyclostyle.
- cyclostyles — Plural form of cyclostyle.
- cynicalness — The state or quality of being cynical.
- daisy wheel — a component of a computer printer in the shape of a wheel with many spokes that prints characters using a disk with characters around the circumference as the print element
- dame school — (formerly) a small school, often in a village, usually run by an elderly woman in her own home to teach young children to read and write
- dame-school — a school in which the rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic were taught to neighborhood children by a woman in her own home.
- damselflies — Plural form of damselfly.
- danger list — on
- dangerously — full of danger or risk; causing danger; perilous; risky; hazardous; unsafe.
- danish blue — a strong-tasting white cheese with blue veins
- dardanelles — the strait between the Aegean and the Sea of Marmara, separating European from Asian Turkey
- darlingness — the quality or characteristic of being darling, sweet, or charming
- dasht-e-lut — vast desert region of central and SE Iran, extending southward from the Dasht-e-Kavir
- date mussel — any brown, date-sized marine mussel, genus Lithophaga, that bores into rock or coral.
- dauerschlaf — a form of therapy, now rarely used, that involves the use of drugs to induce long periods of deep sleep.
- dauntlessly — In a dauntless manner.
- day release — Day release is a system in which workers spend one day each week at a college in order to study a subject connected with their work.