11-letter words containing l, i, o, n, e
- sharonville — a town in SW Ohio.
- sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
- shingle oak — an oak, Quercus imbricaria, yielding a wood used for shingles, clapboards, etc.
- shroud-line — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
- silent vote — the vote of persons who have not previously expressed or made evident a preference.
- silicon fen — an area of Cambridgeshire, esp around the city of Cambridge, in which industries associated with information technology are concentrated
- siliconized — (of a material) having silicone added.
- silly money — an absurdly large or, less commonly, small amount of money
- silverpoint — a technique of drawing with a silver stylus on specially prepared paper.
- single bond — a chemical linkage consisting of one covalent bond between two atoms of a molecule, represented in chemical formulas by one line or two vertical dots, as C–H or C:H.
- single knot — overhand knot.
- single room — hotel room for one person
- single-foot — rack3 (def 1).
- single-shot — (of a firearm) requiring loading before each shot; not having or using a cartridge magazine.
- skeletonize — to reduce to a skeleton, outline, or framework.
- sleep on it — contemplate sth overnight
- smouldering — burning slowly without flame, usually emitting smoke
- snailflower — a tropical vine, Vigna caracalla, of the legume family, having fragrant, yellowish or purplish flowers, a segment of which is shaped like a snail's shell.
- snorkelling — the activity of swimming with a snorkel
- snowmobiler — a person who drives a snowmobile
- soft pencil — a type of pencil that contains a thicker, oilier and darker form of graphite
- soil binder — a plant that prevents or inhibits erosion by providing a ground cover and forming a dense network of roots that hold the soil.
- soldier ant — a type of ant that has a disproportionately large head
- solid angle — an angle formed by three or more planes intersecting in a common point or formed at the vertex of a cone.
- sound-alike — a person or thing that resembles another in sound
- sovereignly — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
- soybean oil — a pale-yellow oil derived from soybeans by expression or solvent extraction: used as a food and in the manufacture of soap, candles, inks, paints, varnishes, etc.
- speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
- spin bowler — a bowler who specializes in bowling balls with a spinning motion
- 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.
- splodginess — the state of being splodgy
- st.-emilion — a dry claret wine from the parish of St.-Émilion in the Bordeaux region of France.
- 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
- stone-blind — completely blind.
- sulfonamide — sulfa drug.
- 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.