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11-letter words containing l, i, t, e, r, o

  • sclerotized — (especially of the cuticle of an arthropod) hardened by the presence of substances other than chitin, as by scleroproteins, waxes, or calcium salts.
  • secretional — of or relating to secretion
  • selectorial — of or relating to selections or selectors
  • self-profit — Often, profits. pecuniary gain resulting from the employment of capital in any transaction. Compare gross profit, net profit. the ratio of such pecuniary gain to the amount of capital invested. returns, proceeds, or revenue, as from property or investments.
  • serial port — A serial port on a computer is a place where you can connect the computer to a device such as a modem or a mouse.
  • serrulation — serrulate condition or form.
  • servitorial — of or pertaining to a servitor
  • short field — the area of the infield between third base and second, covered by the shortstop.
  • short title — an abridged listing in a catalog or bibliography, giving only such essential information as the author's name and the book's title, publisher, and date and place of publication.
  • short-lived — living or lasting only a little while.
  • silverpoint — a technique of drawing with a silver stylus on specially prepared paper.
  • slipperwort — any of several tropical American plants belonging to the genus Calceolaria, of the figwort family, having opposite or whorled leaves and slipper-shaped flowers.
  • slot aerial — a transmitting aerial in which the radiating elements are open slots in a surrounding metal sheet
  • solarimeter — an instrument for measuring solar radiation.
  • soldier ant — a type of ant that has a disproportionately large head
  • soteriology — the doctrine of salvation through Jesus Christ.
  • soul sister — a black female, especially a fellow black female.
  • sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • styliferous — having a style (part of the female organ of a plant)
  • superpolite — extremely polite
  • tail covert — any of the feathers concealing the bases of a bird's tail feathers.
  • tailor-made — tailored.
  • tailor-make — to make or adjust to meet the needs of the particular situation, individual, object, etc.: to tailor-make a tour.
  • taylorville — a town in central Illinois.
  • technicolor — (often lowercase) flamboyant or lurid, as in color, meaning, or detail.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • temporality — temporal character or nature; temporariness.
  • temporalize — to make temporal in time; place in time.
  • temporarily — lasting, existing, serving, or effective for a time only; not permanent: a temporary need; a temporary job.
  • term policy — a policy whose period of coverage is in excess of one year, usually paying a reduced premium rate, as in fire insurance.
  • terminology — the system of terms belonging or peculiar to a science, art, or specialized subject; nomenclature: the terminology of botany.
  • terricolous — living on or in the ground.
  • territorial — of or relating to territory or land.
  • tetraploidy — having a chromosome number that is four times the basic or haploid number.
  • tetrazolium — a derivative of an acidic chemical compound
  • theoretical — given to, forming, or dealing with theories; speculative.
  • theriolatry — the worship of theriomorphic deities or deities that are a combination of human and animal forms
  • thermocline — a layer of water in an ocean or certain lakes, where the temperature gradient is greater than that of the warmer layer above and the colder layer below.
  • thermolysis — Physiology. the dispersion of heat from the body.
  • thermophile — a thermophilic organism.
  • tidal force — the gravitational pull exerted by a celestial body that raises the tides on another body within the gravitational field, dependent on the varying distance between the bodies.
  • tidal power — the use of the rise and fall of tides involving very large volumes of water at low heads to generate electric power
  • timber wolf — the gray wolf, Canis lupus, sometimes designated as the subspecies C. lupus occidentalis: formerly common in northern North America but now greatly reduced in number and rare in the conterminous U.S.
  • tin soldier — a miniature toy soldier of cast metal, usually of lead.
  • titleholder — a person who holds a title.
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