10-letter words containing i, l, t, e, y
- 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.
- strainedly — in a strained manner
- surreality — of, relating to, or characteristic of surrealism, an artistic and literary style; surrealistic.
- sweetishly — in a sweetish manner
- tachytelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate faster than the standard for a given group of plants or animals.
- tail-heavy — noting or pertaining to a craft or vehicle that is too heavy in the rear, from overloading or poor design.
- tea family — the plant family Theaceae, characterized by shrubs and trees having simple, alternate leaves, often showy flowers, and capsular, berrylike, or dry fruit, and including the camellia, franklinia, and tea.
- teddy girl — a rebellious British girl who, in the 1950s and early 1960s, affected the dress of the reign of Edward VII.
- teletypist — a person who operates a teletypewriter.
- tenability — capable of being held, maintained, or defended, as against attack or dispute: a tenable theory.
- terminally — situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
- the litany — a form of prayer consisting of a series of invocations, each followed by an unvarying response
- tiger lily — a lily, Lilium lancifolium (or tigrinum), having dull-orange flowers spotted with black and small bulbs or bulbils in the axils of the leaves.
- till money — money set aside for use by a teller, as distinguished from money kept in the vault.
- time delay — a delay that separates the occurrence of two events
- timelessly — without beginning or end; eternal; everlasting.
- tirelessly — untiring; indefatigable: a tireless worker.
- toilsomely — characterized by or involving toil; laborious or fatiguing.
- traymobile — a small table on casters used for conveying food, drink, etc
- triphylite — a mineral, a rare phosphate of lithium, iron, and manganese, usually occurring in masses of a bluish or greenish color.
- tyrolienne — a dance of the Tyrolean peasants.
- ulteriorly — being beyond what is seen or avowed; intentionally kept concealed: ulterior motives.
- ultimately — last; furthest or farthest; ending a process or series: the ultimate point in a journey; the ultimate style in hats.
- unliterary — pertaining to or of the nature of books and writings, especially those classed as literature: literary history.
- unpolitely — impolitely
- unpriestly — not befitting a priest
- unsisterly — not sisterly
- unsteadily — not steady or firm; unstable; shaky: an unsteady hand.
- useability — available or convenient for use: 2000 square feet of usable office space.
- vertically — being in a position or direction perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb.
- very light — highly illuminated
- violet ray — the shortest ray of the visible spectrum
- water lily — any of various aquatic plants of the genus Nymphaea, species of which have large, disklike, floating leaves and showy flowers, especially N. odorata, of America, or N. alba, of Europe. Compare water lily family.
- white lady — a cocktail consisting of gin, Cointreau, and lemon juice
- whitebelly — (zoology) Applied to various kinds of animal characterized by a white belly.
- wild thyme — mother-of-thyme.
- winstanley — Gerrard. ?1609–60, English radical; leader of the Diggers (1649–50) and author of the pamphlet The Law of Freedom in a Platform (1652)
- wycliffite — of or relating to Wycliffe or the Wycliffites.
- yellowtail — a game fish, Seriola lalandei, of California.
- youth-isle — Isle of, an island in the Caribbean, a special municipality in S Cuba. 1182 sq. mi. (3060 sq. km).
- yttrialite — (mineralogy) A rare, highly radioactive yttrium thorium sorosilicate mineral with conchoidal fracture.