11-letter words containing l, i, s, t, e
- novelettish — Resembling or characteristic of a novelette.
- novelettist — a person who writes novelettes
- nucleotides — any of a group of molecules that, when linked together, form the building blocks of DNA or RNA: composed of a phosphate group, the bases adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine, and a pentose sugar, in RNA the thymine base being replaced by uracil.
- object lisp — (language) An object-oriented Lisp developed by Lisp Machines Inc. (LMI) in about 1987. Object Lisp was based on nested closures and operator shadowing. Several competing object-orientated extensions to Lisp were around at the time, such as Flavors, in use by Symbolics; Common Objects, developed by Hewlett-Packard; and CommonLoops in use by Xerox. LMI submitted the specification as a candidate for an object-oriented standard for Common Lisp, but it was defeated in favour of CLOS.
- obligements — Plural form of obligement.
- obliquities — Plural form of obliquity.
- obliterates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obliterate.
- obstetrical — of or relating to the care and treatment of women in childbirth and during the period before and after delivery.
- obstinately — firmly or stubbornly adhering to one's purpose, opinion, etc.; not yielding to argument, persuasion, or entreaty.
- obtrusively — having or showing a disposition to obtrude, as by imposing oneself or one's opinions on others.
- occidentals — Plural form of occidental.
- oenophilist — a person who enjoys wines, usually as a connoisseur.
- offset-line — something that counterbalances, counteracts, or compensates for something else; compensating equivalent.
- old castile — a region in N Spain: formerly a province.
- olfactories — of or relating to the sense of smell: olfactory organs.
- ontologised — Simple past tense and past participle of ontologise.
- orientalism — a peculiarity or idiosyncrasy of the peoples of Asia, especially the East.
- orientalist — A person (especially a scholar) interested in the orient.
- oscillative — disposed to oscillation
- ostensively — (manner) In an ostensive manner.
- osteoclasis — Physiology. the breaking down or absorption of osseous tissue.
- osteologist — the branch of anatomy dealing with the skeleton.
- ostrichlike — a large, two-toed, swift-footed flightless bird, Struthio camelus, indigenous to Africa and Arabia, domesticated for its plumage: the largest of living birds.
- otherwhiles — at other times, sometimes
- outfielders — Plural form of outfielder.
- outsleeping — Present participle of outsleep.
- overhastily — in such a way as to be excessively hasty or done without enough consideration
- palestinian — a native or inhabitant of Palestine.
- palletising — to place (materials) upon pallets for handling or moving.
- palmatisect — (of leaves) having palmate veins and lobes split almost to the base of the blade.
- panel strip — one of a number of strips of wood or metal laid upon the surface of a wall, ceiling, etc., so as to divide it into a number of broad areas, usually in order to conceal joints between sheets of composition material forming the surface.
- parallelist — a person who seeks or makes a comparison.
- partialness — being such in part only; not total or general; incomplete: partial blindness; a partial payment of a debt.
- pastoralize — to make pastoral or rural.
- paternalism — the system, principle, or practice of managing or governing individuals, businesses, nations, etc., in the manner of a father dealing benevolently and often intrusively with his children: The employees objected to the paternalism of the old president.
- paternalist — government: fatherly in style
- pathologies — the science or the study of the origin, nature, and course of diseases.
- patientless — a person who is under medical care or treatment.
- patsy cline — Patsy (Virginia Patterson Hensley) 1932–63, U.S. country singer.
- pendulosity — the state or quality of being pendulous
- peninsulate — to cause (land) to become peninsular
- peristalith — a group of stones encircling a mound, dolmen, or the like.
- peristalsis — the progressive wave of contraction and relaxation of a tubular muscular system, especially the alimentary canal, by which the contents are forced through the system.
- peristaltic — of, relating to, or resembling peristalsis.
- peristylium — a peristyle.
- personalist — Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
- personality — the visible aspect of one's character as it impresses others: He has a pleasing personality.
- pestologist — a person who analyses and researches pests and how to get rid of them
- philatelist — the collecting of stamps and other postal matter as a hobby or an investment.
- philistines — (sometimes initial capital letter) a person who is lacking in or hostile or smugly indifferent to cultural values, intellectual pursuits, aesthetic refinement, etc., or is contentedly commonplace in ideas and tastes.