11-letter words containing i, n, l, s, t, e
- st.-emilion — a dry claret wine from the parish of St.-Émilion in the Bordeaux region of France.
- stalin peak — former name of Communism Peak.
- stateliness — majestic; imposing in magnificence, elegance, etc.: a stately home.
- static line — a line attached to a parachute pack and to a cable in an aircraft for the purpose of automatically opening the parachute after it is dropped.
- steelmaking — the manufacture of steel.
- stellionate — any crime of unspecified class that involves fraud, especially one that involves the selling of the same property to different people.
- stencilling — a device for applying a pattern, design, words, etc., to a surface, consisting of a thin sheet of cardboard, metal, or other material from which figures or letters have been cut out, a coloring substance, ink, etc., being rubbed, brushed, or pressed over the sheet, passing through the perforations and onto the surface.
- stenohaline — (of an aquatic organism) unable to withstand wide variation in salinity of the surrounding water.
- stepsibling — a stepbrother or stepsister.
- stereoblind — lacking the ability to see in three dimensions through both eyes
- stickhandle — (in hockey and lacrosse) to control and skillfully maneuver the ball or puck with the stick.
- stone-blind — completely blind.
- strand line — a shoreline, especially one from which the sea or a lake has receded.
- streamingly — in a streaming manner
- streamlined — streamlined.
- streamliner — something that is streamlined, especially a locomotive or passenger train.
- string line — string (def 17b).
- stringently — rigorously binding or exacting; strict; severe: stringent laws.
- stunt flier — someone who performs stunts in an aeroplane, such as special turns, etc, in the air
- subinfluent — an organism that has a lesser effect than an influent on the ecological processes within a community.
- subinterval — an interval that is a subset of a given interval.
- subterminal — situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
- surveillant — exercising surveillance.
- sustainable — capable of being supported or upheld, as by having its weight borne from below.
- swingletree — a whiffletree.
- switzerland — a republic in central Europe. 15,944 sq. mi. (41,294 sq. km). Capital: Bern.
- sylvestrian — living in the woods; sylvan
- synthetical — of, pertaining to, proceeding by, or involving synthesis (opposed to analytic).
- taintlessly — without taint
- taking lens — a camera in which the image appears on a ground-glass viewer (focusing screen) after being reflected by a mirror or after passing through a prism or semitransparent glass; in one type (single-lens reflex camera) light passes through the same lens to both the ground glass and the film, while in another type (twin-lens reflex camera) light passes through one lens (viewing lens) to the ground glass and through a second lens (taking lens) to the film, the lenses being mechanically coupled for focusing.
- technopolis — a society with a concentration of technology-based businesses or an emphasis on technology
- telekinesis — psychokinesis.
- telephonist — a telephone switchboard operator.
- telescience — the investigation of remotely controlled scientific experiments
- telescoping — an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly; the other form (reflecting telescope) has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed. Compare radio telescope.
- telesterion — (in ancient Greece) a building in which religious mysteries were celebrated.
- tenaciously — holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold (often followed by of): a tenacious grip on my arm; tenacious of old habits.
- tennis ball — a hollow ball used in tennis, made of rubber with a fuzzy covering of woven Dacron, nylon, or wool.
- tense logic — the study of the logical properties of tense operators, and of the logical relations between sentences having tense, by means of consideration of appropriate formal systems
- tensionally — in a tensional manner
- tensionless — the act of stretching or straining.
- testimonial — a written declaration certifying to a person's character, conduct, or qualifications, or to the value, excellence, etc., of a thing; a letter or written statement of recommendation.
- the english — the natives or inhabitants of England collectively
- the islands — the islands of the South Pacific
- thingliness — the quality of having existence or of being a thing
- thistledown — the mature, silky pappus of a thistle.
- time signal — a signal sent electrically or by radio to indicate a precise moment of time as a means of checking or regulating timepieces.
- tin soldier — a miniature toy soldier of cast metal, usually of lead.
- tin whistle — A tin whistle is a simple musical instrument in the shape of a metal pipe with holes. You play the tin whistle by blowing into it. Tin whistles make a high sound and are often used in folk music, for example Irish music.
- transalpine — situated beyond the Alps, especially toward the north as viewed from Italy.