10-letter words containing l, i, t, o, e, s
- melezitose — (organic compound) A non-reducing trisaccharide sugar produced by many insects that consume plant sap.
- melitriose — raffinose.
- mesolithic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a transitional period of the Stone Age intermediate between the Paleolithic and the Neolithic periods, characterized by adaptation to a hunting, collecting, and fishing economy based on the use of forest, lakeside, and seashore environments; Epipaleolithic.
- mesothelia — Plural form of mesothelium.
- metabolise — Alternative spelling of metabolize.
- metabolism — Biology, Physiology. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Compare anabolism, catabolism.
- metalloids — Plural form of metalloid.
- meticulous — taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough: a meticulous craftsman; meticulous personal appearance.
- metropolis — any large, busy city.
- middelskot — (in South Africa) an intermediate payment to a farmers' cooperative for a crop or wool clip
- middlemost — midmost.
- milestones — Plural form of milestone.
- millstones — Plural form of millstone.
- mislocated — to misplace.
- mistflower — a North American composite plant, Eupatorium coelestinum, having heads of blue flowers.
- mistletoes — Plural form of mistletoe.
- modalities — the quality or state of being modal.
- molalities — Plural form of molality.
- molarities — Plural form of molarity.
- monostelic — having an individual or sole stele or cylindrical part in the middle of the stem or root of a plant that contains tubular-like vessels
- moralities — Plural form of morality.
- mortalised — Simple past tense and past participle of mortalise.
- motionless — without motion: a motionless statue.
- motiveless — something that causes a person to act in a certain way, do a certain thing, etc.; incentive.
- mousetails — Plural form of mousetail.
- nationless — a large body of people, associated with a particular territory, that is sufficiently conscious of its unity to seek or to possess a government peculiarly its own: The president spoke to the nation about the new tax.
- nebulosity — nebulous or nebular matter.
- neoplastic — the theory and practice of the de Stijl school, chiefly characterized by an emphasis on the formal structure of a work of art, and restriction of spatial or linear relations to vertical and horizontal movements as well as restriction of the artist's palette to black, white, and the primary colors.
- neorealist — Of or pertaining to the post World War II international relations movement of neorealism.
- nobilities — Plural form of nobility.
- nonelastic — capable of returning to its original length, shape, etc., after being stretched, deformed, compressed, or expanded: an elastic waistband; elastic fiber.
- nonhostile — Not hostile; free of hostility.
- nonsterile — free from living germs or microorganisms; aseptic: sterile surgical instruments.
- novelistic — of, relating to, or characteristic of novels.
- obliterans — Producing obstruction due to inflammation and fibrosis.
- obsoleting — no longer in general use; fallen into disuse: an obsolete expression.
- obsoletism — A disused word or phrase; an archaism.
- oenologist — Alternative spelling of enologist.
- oestradiol — Alternative spelling of estradiol.
- ontologies — Plural form of ontology.
- ontologise — Alt form ontologize.
- oppositely — situated, placed, or lying face to face with something else or each other, or in corresponding positions with relation to an intervening line, space, or thing: opposite ends of a room.
- oscillated — Simple past tense and past participle of oscillate.
- oscillates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of oscillate.
- ostensible — outwardly appearing as such; professed; pretended: an ostensible cheerfulness concealing sadness.
- ostensibly — outwardly appearing as such; professed; pretended: an ostensible cheerfulness concealing sadness.
- osteolysis — The pathological destruction or disappearance of bone tissue.
- oubliettes — Plural form of oubliette.
- outselling — Present participle of outsell.
- pectoralis — either of two muscles on each side of the upper and anterior part of the thorax, the action of the larger (pectoralis major) assisting in drawing the shoulder forward and rotating the arm inward, and the action of the smaller (pectoralis minor) assisting in drawing the shoulder downward and forward.