10-letter words containing i, t, s, l, o
- soothingly — that soothes: a soothing voice.
- sortileger — a diviner
- southfield — a city in SE Michigan, W of Detroit.
- spallation — a nuclear reaction in which several nucleons are released from the nucleus of an atom.
- splintwood — a thin flexible wood often used for making baskets
- split roll — a taxation under which real-estate taxes on business and industrial buildings are levied at higher rates than on residential homes.
- spoilsport — a person whose selfish or unsportsmanlike attitudes or actions spoil the pleasure of others, as in a game or social gathering.
- spoliation — the act or an instance of plundering or despoiling.
- spoliative — blood-diminishing
- sportingly — engaging in, disposed to, or interested in open-air or athletic sports: a rugged, sporting man.
- 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.
- stichology — metrical theory or the science of poetic metres
- stilettoed — wearing stiletto heels
- still room — (in a large house) a room for distilling or for the preparation of special foods and drinks.
- stillatory — a still or distillery where liquid is distilled
- stillhouse — a distillery or place where the distilling process takes place
- stilliform — drop-shaped; globular.
- stilt root — a large prop root
- stimulator — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- stock list — a list or inventory of the goods or raw materials kept on the premises of a shop or business
- 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.
- storiology — the study of the origins and development of folk narratives and legends
- storksbill — Also called heron's-bill. any of various plants belonging to the genus Erodium, of the geranium family, having deeply lobed leaves, loose clusters of pink, purple, white, or yellow flowers, and long, slender fruit.
- story line — plot (def 2).
- storyville — a red-light district of New Orleans known as a wellspring of jazz before World War I.
- stridulous — Also, stridulant. making or having a harsh or grating sound.
- 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
- strobiloid — resembling a strobila
- strophiole — a small growth on some plants' seeds
- studiously — disposed or given to diligent study: a studious boy.
- stylohyoid — of, relating to, or situated between the styloid process of the temporal bone and the hyoid bone.
- suboptimal — being below an optimal level or standard.
- suborbital — (of a spacecraft) not in orbit; not achieving an altitude and velocity resulting in a ballistic trajectory circling the earth at least once.
- sufflation — to inflate.
- suntan oil — an oil that you rub into your skin to protect it from the sun's harmful UV rays
- 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.
- teleboides — Taphiae.
- telegnosis — supernatural or occult knowledge; clairvoyance.
- 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.
- tendrilous — a threadlike, leafless organ of climbing plants, often growing in spiral form, which attaches itself to or twines round some other body, so as to support the plant.
- tesla coil — an air-core transformer used to produce high voltages of high-frequency alternating currents.