11-letter words containing l, i, n, t, o
- slow-acting — working or acting slowly, not immediately
- slow-motion — of, pertaining to or made in slow motion: a slow-motion replay.
- social unit — a person or a group of persons, as a family, functioning as a unit in society.
- soft pencil — a type of pencil that contains a thicker, oilier and darker form of graphite
- soldier ant — a type of ant that has a disproportionately large head
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- stimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- stipulation — a condition, demand, or promise in an agreement or contract.
- stockpiling — the activity of acquiring and storing a large quantity of something
- stone-blind — completely blind.
- strombolian — relating to or denoting a type of volcanic eruption characterized by repeated fountaining or jetting of fluid lava into the air
- strongyloid — of or relating to a strongyle
- stylization — to design in or cause to conform to a particular style, as of representation or treatment in art; conventionalize.
- sublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- subluxation — a partial dislocation, as of a joint; sprain.
- subnational — of, relating to, or maintained by a nation as an organized whole or independent political unit: national affairs.
- subrational — less than or almost rational.
- sulfonation — the process of attaching the sulfonic acid group, –SO 3 H, directly to carbon in an organic compound.
- sulfuration — to combine, treat, or impregnate with sulfur, the fumes of burning sulfur, etc.
- tailhopping — the act of hopping to lift the tails of the skis off the ground while flexing the knees into a crouching position
- taxonomical — the science or technique of classification.
- technicolor — (often lowercase) flamboyant or lurid, as in color, meaning, or detail.
- technologic — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
- technophile — a person who loves or is enthusiastic about advanced technology.
- technopolis — a society with a concentration of technology-based businesses or an emphasis on technology
- teetotaling — of or relating to, advocating, or pledged to total abstinence from intoxicating drink.
- telephoning — an apparatus, system, or process for transmission of sound or speech to a distant point, especially by an electric device.
- telephonist — a telephone switchboard operator.
- 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.
- teleworking — Teleworking is working from home using equipment such as telephones, fax machines, and modems to contact people.
- telling-off — If you give someone a telling-off, you tell them that you are very angry with them about something they have done.
- telocentric — of or relating to any chromosome or chromatid whose centromere is positioned at its end, creating one chromosome arm. Compare acentric (def 2), acrocentric, metacentric (def 2).
- telodynamic — pertaining to the transmission of mechanical power over considerable distances, as by means of endless cables on pulleys.
- tenaciously — holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold (often followed by of): a tenacious grip on my arm; tenacious of old habits.
- 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