10-letter words containing e, t, i, o, l
- septillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 24 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 42 zeros.
- serologist — the science dealing with the immunological properties and actions of serum.
- sexologist — the study of sexual behavior.
- sextillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 21 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 36 zeros.
- shibboleth — a peculiarity of pronunciation, behavior, mode of dress, etc., that distinguishes a particular class or set of persons.
- shoplifter — a person who steals goods from the shelves or displays of a retail store while posing as a customer.
- short line — a bus or rail route covering only a limited distance.
- short-life — not designed to last
- siderolite — stony-iron meteorite.
- silent cop — a small hemispherical traffic marker at an intersection
- silhouette — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
- silvertone — made to resemble silver in color, sheen, etc.
- single out — only one in number; one only; unique; sole: a single example.
- sitosterol — any of five steroid alcohols having the formula C 2 2 H 5 0 O, especially the beta form, obtained from various plant sources: used in organic synthesis.
- skeletonic — resembling a skeleton
- slide knot — a knot formed by making two half hitches on the standing part of the rope, the second hitch being next to the loop, which can be tightened.
- slingstone — a stone fired from a sling
- societally — noting or pertaining to large social groups, or to their activities, customs, etc.
- solicitude — the state of being solicitous; anxiety or concern.
- solonetzic — characteristic of solonetz
- sortileger — a diviner
- southfield — a city in SE Michigan, W of Detroit.
- spoliative — blood-diminishing
- staurolite — a mineral, basic iron aluminum silicate, Fe 2 Al 2 O 7 (SiO 4) 4 (OH), occurring in brown to black prismatic crystals, which are often twinned in the form of a cross.
- stelliform — star-shaped.
- stilettoed — wearing stiletto heels
- stillhouse — a distillery or place where the distilling process takes place
- stolenwise — in a stealthy or secretive manner
- stolidness — not easily stirred or moved mentally; unemotional; impassive.
- stone lily — a fossil crinoid.
- stone-lily — a fossil crinoid.
- story line — plot (def 2).
- storyville — a red-light district of New Orleans known as a wellspring of jazz before World War I.
- strike oil — any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
- strobilate — to undergo strobilation
- strobiline — of or relating to a strobilus
- strophiole — a small growth on some plants' seeds
- suppletion — the use in inflection or derivation of an allomorph that is not related in form to the primary allomorph of a morpheme, as the use of better as the comparative of good.
- tailcoated — wearing a tailcoat
- tailorable — capable of being made into clothing: tailorable fabrics.
- teleboides — Taphiae.
- telecopier — a fax machine
- telegnosis — supernatural or occult knowledge; clairvoyance.
- teleologic — of or relating to teleology, the philosophical doctrine that final causes, design, and purpose exist in nature.
- teleonomic — Biology. the principle that the body's structures and functions serve an overall purpose, as in assuring the survival of the organism.
- telephonic — of, relating to, or happening by means of a telephone system.
- telescopic — of, relating to, or of the nature of a telescope.
- television — the transmission of programming, in the form of still or moving images, via radio waves, cable wires, satellite, or wireless network to a receiver or other screen.
- teliospore — a spore of certain rust fungi, which carries the fungus through the winter and which, on germination, produces the promycelium.
- telsontail — any of several minute, wingless, primitive insects of the order Protura, having a cone-shaped head with sucking and piercing mouthparts and no eyes or antennae, inhabiting damp soil or decaying organic matter.