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11-letter words containing l, i, s, t, e

  • specialties — a special or distinctive quality, mark, state, or condition.
  • spectrality — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
  • specularity — the state of resembling a mirror
  • speculating — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
  • speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
  • speculatist — a person who speculates
  • speculative — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
  • speed light — an electronic flash lamp.
  • speed limit — the maximum speed at which a vehicle is legally permitted to travel, as within a specific area, on a certain road, or under given conditions.
  • spinsterial — relating to a spinster
  • spirit lake — a lake in SW Washington, at the N foot of Mount St. Helens: site of devastation during 1980 eruptions of Mount St. Helens.
  • spirituelle — having a refined and lively mind or wit; spirituel
  • 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.
  • splintering — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
  • split-level — noting a house having a room or rooms that are somewhat above or below adjacent rooms, with the floor levels usually differing by approximately half a story.
  • split-phase — pertaining to or noting a current in one of two parallel circuits that have a single-phase current source but unequal impedances and that produce currents of different phase.
  • splitsville — the state or condition of being divorced or separated.
  • sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation
  • sprightless — without any spirit or liveliness
  • st.-emilion — a dry claret wine from the parish of St.-Émilion in the Bordeaux region of France.
  • stable girl — a girl or woman who looks after or attends horses in stables
  • stalactited — having or containing stalactites
  • stalactites — a deposit, usually of calcium carbonate, shaped like an icicle, hanging from the roof of a cave or the like, and formed by the dripping of percolating calcareous water.
  • stalagmites — a deposit, usually of calcium carbonate, more or less resembling an inverted stalactite, formed on the floor of a cave or the like by the dripping of percolating calcareous water.
  • stalin peak — former name of Communism Peak.
  • starlighted — lit by the stars
  • stateliness — majestic; imposing in magnificence, elegance, etc.: a stately home.
  • statesville — a city in central North Carolina.
  • static line — a line attached to a parachute pack and to a cable in an aircraft for the purpose of automatically opening the parachute after it is dropped.
  • steatolysis — the digestive process whereby fats are emulsified and then hydrolysed to fatty acids and glycerine
  • steelmaking — the manufacture of steel.
  • stellionate — any crime of unspecified class that involves fraud, especially one that involves the selling of the same property to different people.
  • stencilling — a device for applying a pattern, design, words, etc., to a surface, consisting of a thin sheet of cardboard, metal, or other material from which figures or letters have been cut out, a coloring substance, ink, etc., being rubbed, brushed, or pressed over the sheet, passing through the perforations and onto the surface.
  • stenohaline — (of an aquatic organism) unable to withstand wide variation in salinity of the surrounding water.
  • stepsibling — a stepbrother or stepsister.
  • 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.
  • sterlitamak — a city in the Russian Federation in Europe, W of the Southern Urals.
  • stick style — a style in mid-Victorian American wooden architecture characterized by the use of vertical board siding with battens or grids of boards over horizontal siding to express the framing beneath.
  • stickhandle — (in hockey and lacrosse) to control and skillfully maneuver the ball or puck with the stick.
  • stickleader — a person assigned to check the appearance or condition of each person in a stick
  • stickleback — any of the small, pugnacious, spiny-backed fishes of the family Gasterosteidae, inhabiting northern fresh waters and sea inlets, the male of which builds and guards the nest.
  • 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.
  • still frame — continuous display of a single frame of a film or of a single picture from a television signal
  • still lifes — paintings or drawings of inanimate objects
  • still water — a part of a stream that is level or where the level of inclination is so slight that no current is visible.
  • stimulative — serving to stimulate.
  • stobie pole — a steel and concrete pole for supporting electricity wires
  • stone-blind — completely blind.
  • strait-lace — to bind, confine, or restrain with or as if with laces.
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