10-letter words containing l, e, s
- afterclaps — Plural form of afterclap.
- afterglows — Plural form of afterglow.
- afterlives — Plural form of afterlife.
- aftersales — (business) Alternative form of aftersale.
- agathocles — 361–289 b.c, tyrant of Syracuse 317–289.
- agendaless — without an agenda; unplanned; purposeless
- air castle — a fanciful or impractical notion or hope; daydream.
- aisi steel — any steel made to conform to the standard chemical compositions generally accepted by the U.S. steel industry and its principal customers.
- aisle seat — a seat, esp on a plane, situated at the end of a row, adjacent to the aisle
- albescence — becoming white; whitish.
- albigenses — members of a Manichean sect that flourished in S France from the 11th to the 13th century
- albuminose — Alternative form of albuminous.
- alchemists — Plural form of alchemist.
- alcibiades — 450–404 bc, Athenian statesman and general in the Peloponnesian War: brilliant, courageous, and unstable, he defected to the Spartans in 415, but returned and led the Athenian victories at Abydos (411) and Cyzicus (410)
- alcoholise — Alternative spelling of alcoholize.
- alderflies — Plural form of alderfly.
- aldohexose — any aldose containing six carbon atoms, such as glucose or mannose
- aldotriose — (carbohydrate) Any aldose having three carbon atoms; in reality, just glyceraldehyde.
- alessandra — a female given name, Italian form of Alexandra.
- alessandri — Jorge [hawr-he] /ˈhɔr hɛ/ (Show IPA), 1896–1986, Chilean engineer and statesman: president 1958–64.
- alessandro — Victor Nicholas, 1915–76, U.S. orchestra conductor.
- alexanders — a biennial umbelliferous plant, Smyrnium olusatrum, native to S Europe, with dense umbels of yellow-green flowers and black fruits
- alexandros — Alexander (def 2).
- alexicacus — an epithet of Apollo, meaning “averter of evil,” in reference to his dispelling a plague that afflicted the Athenian forces in the Peloponnesian War.
- algebraist — an expert in algebra.
- alger hiss — Alger, 1904–96, U.S. public official, accused of espionage 1948 and imprisoned for perjury 1950–54.
- alienators — Plural form of alienator.
- alignments — Plural form of alignment.
- alisanders — Alternative form of alexanders (plant).
- aliterates — Plural form of aliterate.
- alkahestic — of or relating to the alkahest
- all at sea — You can say that someone is all at sea when they are in a state of confusion or uncertainty.
- all smiles — If you say that someone is all smiles, you mean that they look very happy, often when they have previously been worried or upset about something.
- all square — mutually clear of all debts or obligations
- all-comers — You use all-comers to refer to everyone who wants to take part in an activity, especially a competition.
- all-elbows — (jargon) Said of a TSR (terminate-and-stay-resident) mess-dos program, such as the N pop-up calendar and calculator utilities that circulate on BBS systems: unsociable. Used to describe a program that rudely steals the resources that it needs without considering that other TSRs may also be resident. One particularly common form of rudeness is lock-up due to programs fighting over the keyboard interrupt.
- all-seater — An all-seater stadium has enough seats for all the audience, rather than having some areas without seats where people stand.
- allegories — Plural form of allegory.
- allegorist — a person who writes allegories
- allenstein — German name of Olsztyn.
- allergists — Plural form of allergist.
- alleviates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of alleviate.
- alliaceous — of or relating to Allium, a genus of plants that have a strong onion or garlic smell and often have bulbs: family Alliaceae. The genus occurs in the N hemisphere and includes onion, garlic, leek, chive, and shallot
- allomerism — similarity of crystalline structure in substances of different chemical composition
- allophones — Plural form of allophone.
- allosteric — of, relating to, or designating a function of an enzyme in which the structure and activity of the enzyme are modified by the binding of a metabolic molecule
- allotheism — the worship of gods foreign to one's own land or culture
- allotments — Plural form of allotment.
- allotropes — Plural form of allotrope.
- allowables — that may be allowed; legitimate; permissible: an allowable tax deduction.