11-letter words containing i, t, s, l, o
- slow-motion — of, pertaining to or made in slow motion: a slow-motion replay.
- slow-twitch — of or relating to muscle fiber that contracts relatively slowly and is resistant to fatigue (distinguished from fast-twitch).
- slow-witted — mentally slow or dull; slow in comprehension and thinking.
- slug it out — to strike heavily; hit hard, especially with the fist.
- sociability — the act or an instance of being sociable.
- social unit — a person or a group of persons, as a family, functioning as a unit in society.
- socialistic — of or relating to socialists or socialism.
- sociologist — the science or study of the origin, development, organization, and functioning of human society; the science of the fundamental laws of social relations, institutions, etc.
- sodomitical — anal or oral copulation with a member of the opposite sex.
- soft pencil — a type of pencil that contains a thicker, oilier and darker form of graphite
- soft skills — emotional intelligence
- soft-boiled — to boil (an egg) just long enough for the yolk and white to partially solidify, usually three or four minutes.
- solar still — an apparatus that uses solar radiation to distill salt or brackish water to produce drinkable water.
- solarimeter — an instrument for measuring solar radiation.
- soldier ant — a type of ant that has a disproportionately large head
- solicitudes — the state of being solicitous; anxiety or concern.
- solid south — the states of the southern U.S. that traditionally supported the Democratic Party after the Civil War.
- solid-state — designating or pertaining to electronic devices, as transistors or crystals, that can control current without the use of moving parts, heated filaments, or vacuum gaps.
- soliloquist — to utter a soliloquy; talk to oneself.
- solipsistic — of or characterized by solipsism, or the theory that only the self exists, or can be proved to exist: Her treatment philosophy dealt with madness as a complete, self-contained, solipsistic world that sane people are not able to enter.
- solmization — the act, process, or system of using certain syllables, especially the sol-fa syllables, to represent the tones of the scale.
- solutionist — a problem-solver
- solvability — capable of being solved, as a problem.
- somatically — of the body; bodily; physical.
- some little — rather extensive; fairly full
- sophistical — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
- sorbability — the ability of something to absorb
- soteriology — the doctrine of salvation through Jesus Christ.
- soul sister — a black female, especially a fellow black female.
- sovietology — Kremlinology.
- sow thistle — any composite plant belonging to the genus Sonchus, especially S. oleraceus, a weed having thistlelike leaves, yellow flowers, and a milky juice.
- spasmolytic — of or noting spasmolysis.
- speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
- spiculation — formation into spicules.
- splint bone — one of the rudimentary, splintlike metacarpal or metatarsal bones of the horse or some allied animal, one on each side of the back of each cannon bone.
- spondylitic — inflammation of the vertebrae.
- spondylitis — inflammation of the vertebrae.
- sporulation — to produce spores.
- sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation
- st.-emilion — a dry claret wine from the parish of St.-Émilion in the Bordeaux region of France.
- stagflation — an inflationary period accompanied by rising unemployment and lack of growth in consumer demand and business activity.
- stanislawow — Polish name of Ivano-Frankovsk.
- statutorily — of, relating to, or of the nature of a statute.
- steatolysis — the digestive process whereby fats are emulsified and then hydrolysed to fatty acids and glycerine
- stellionate — any crime of unspecified class that involves fraud, especially one that involves the selling of the same property to different people.
- stenohaline — (of an aquatic organism) unable to withstand wide variation in salinity of the surrounding water.
- stereoblind — lacking the ability to see in three dimensions through both eyes
- stereocilia — any of the long, flexible microvilli that superficially resemble cilia and occur as a brush border or series of tufts on the surface of various epithelial tissues.
- stick float — a float attached at the top and bottom to the line
- stilbestrol — a nonsteroidal synthetic estrogen, C 18 H 20 O 2 , used in medicine chiefly in the treatment of menopausal symptoms and in animal feeds for chemical caponization: formerly used during pregnancy for the prevention of miscarriage but discontinued owing to its association with an increased risk of vaginal and cervical cancers in women having had fetal exposure. Abbreviation: DES.