10-letter words containing i, n, o, e, s, l
- lemoniness — The state or quality of being lemony.
- lentissimo — very slow.
- leominster — a city in N Massachusetts.
- leontiasis — a lionlike facial distortion.
- licentious — sexually unrestrained; lascivious; libertine; lewd.
- lich stone — a large stone on which to rest a coffin momentarily at the entrance to a cemetery.
- limestones — Plural form of limestone.
- limousines — Plural form of limousine.
- line noise — (communications) 1. Spurious characters due to electrical noise in a communications link, especially an EIA-232 serial connection. Line noise may be induced by poor connections, interference or crosstalk from other circuits, electrical storms, cosmic rays, or (notionally) birds crapping on the phone wires. 2. Any chunk of data in a file or elsewhere that looks like the results of electrical line noise. 3. Text that is theoretically a readable text or program source but employs syntax so bizarre that it looks like line noise. Yes, there are languages this ugly. The canonical example is TECO, whose input syntax is often said to be indistinguishable from line noise. Other non-WYSIWYG editors, such as Multics "qed" and Unix "ed", in the hands of a real hacker, also qualify easily, as do deliberately obfuscated languages such as INTERCAL.
- line score — a brief listing of the final score and major statistical totals of a game, esp. a baseball game
- line storm — equinoctial storm.
- lineswoman — a female official, as in tennis, soccer, ice hockey, and football, who assists the referee.
- lineswomen — Plural form of lineswoman.
- linoleates — Plural form of linoleate.
- lobstering — the act, process, or business of capturing lobsters.
- loneliness — affected with, characterized by, or causing a depressing feeling of being alone; lonesome.
- long since — for a long time now
- longitudes — Plural form of longitude.
- longlisted — Simple past tense and past participle of longlist.
- lordliness — The property of being lordly; the bearing or manner of a lord.
- loveliness — charmingly or exquisitely beautiful: a lovely flower.
- lovingness — feeling or showing love; warmly affectionate; fond: loving glances.
- lysenkoism — a genetic doctrine formulated by Lysenko and asserting that acquired characteristics are inheritable.
- lysigenous — caused by the breaking down of cells
- lysogenize — to make lysogenic.
- mailperson — A mailman or mailwoman.
- médaillons — a portion of food, especially meat or poultry, cut or served in a round or oval shape.
- medallions — Plural form of medallion.
- menologies — Plural form of menology.
- mesolonghi — Missolonghi.
- milestones — Plural form of milestone.
- millstones — Plural form of millstone.
- miscounsel — to advise wrongly.
- mongrelise — Alternative spelling of mongrelize.
- mongrelism — (uncountable) The condition of being a mongrel.
- monoclines — Plural form of monocline.
- monopolies — exclusive control of a commodity or service in a particular market, or a control that makes possible the manipulation of prices. Compare duopoly, oligopoly.
- monopolise — to acquire, have, or exercise a monopoly of.
- monostelic — having an individual or sole stele or cylindrical part in the middle of the stem or root of a plant that contains tubular-like vessels
- morselling — the act of dividing into or distributing in morsels or small portions
- motionless — without motion: a motionless statue.
- mousseline — muslin.
- nationless — a large body of people, associated with a particular territory, that is sufficiently conscious of its unity to seek or to possess a government peculiarly its own: The president spoke to the nation about the new tax.
- nebulosity — nebulous or nebular matter.
- necropolis — a cemetery, especially one of large size and usually of an ancient city.
- neoclassic — (sometimes initial capital letter) belonging or pertaining to a revival of classic styles or something that is held to resemble classic styles, as in art, literature, music, or architecture.
- neologisms — Plural form of neologism.
- neoplastic — the theory and practice of the de Stijl school, chiefly characterized by an emphasis on the formal structure of a work of art, and restriction of spatial or linear relations to vertical and horizontal movements as well as restriction of the artist's palette to black, white, and the primary colors.
- neorealism — (sometimes initial capital letter) any of various movements in literature, art, etc., that are considered as a return to a more realistic style.
- neorealist — Of or pertaining to the post World War II international relations movement of neorealism.