11-letter words containing l, o, n, r, t
- rope-length — a length of standard climbing rope, normally 50–60m
- rotary kiln — type of industrial oven
- round table — conference, meeting
- round-table — noting or pertaining to a conference, discussion, or deliberation in which each participant has equal status, equal time to present views, etc.: round-table discussions.
- salinometer — an instrument for measuring the amount of salt in a solution.
- satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- secretional — of or relating to secretion
- self-strong — having, showing, or able to exert great bodily or muscular power; physically vigorous or robust: a strong boy.
- serrulation — serrulate condition or form.
- short novel — a prose narrative midway between the novel and the short story in length and scope
- silverpoint — a technique of drawing with a silver stylus on specially prepared paper.
- slant board — a tiltable board that allows a person to lie with the feet higher than the head while doing exercises.
- slant front — a flap of a desk, sloping upward and inward to close the desk, and opening forward and downward to a horizontal position as a writing surface: a form of fall front.
- slot racing — the activity of racing slot cars.
- solar month — month (def 4).
- solar-month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- soldier ant — a type of ant that has a disproportionately large head
- southlander — a person from the south
- sporulation — to produce spores.
- st.-leonard — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada: suburb of Montreal.
- stereoblind — lacking the ability to see in three dimensions through both eyes
- stoneroller — an American minnow, Campostoma anomalum, named from its habit of moving stones as it feeds.
- stonewaller — to engage in stonewalling.
- stony coral — a true coral consisting of numerous anthozoan polyps embedded in the calcareous material that they secrete.
- strand wolf — brown hyena.
- strandloper — a member of an extinct tribe of Khoikhoi or Bushmen who lived on seafood gathered on the beaches of southern Africa
- strenuously — characterized by vigorous exertion, as action, efforts, life, etc.: a strenuous afternoon of hunting.
- strombolian — relating to or denoting a type of volcanic eruption characterized by repeated fountaining or jetting of fluid lava into the air
- strong gale — a wind of 47–54 miles per hour (21–24 m/sec).
- strongyloid — of or relating to a strongyle
- struggle on — If you struggle on, you continue doing something rather than stopping, even though it is difficult.
- subrational — less than or almost rational.
- sulfuration — to combine, treat, or impregnate with sulfur, the fumes of burning sulfur, etc.
- swell front — a horizontally convex front, as of a chest of drawers.
- talk around — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- technicolor — (often lowercase) flamboyant or lurid, as in color, meaning, or detail.
- telecontrol — the remote control of electronic devices
- 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).
- terminology — the system of terms belonging or peculiar to a science, art, or specialized subject; nomenclature: the terminology of botany.
- 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.
- thorn apple — any poisonous plant belonging to the genus Datura, of the nightshade family, the species of which bear capsules covered with prickly spines, especially the jimson weed, D. stramonium.
- thorvaldsen — Albert Bertal [ahl-bert bar-tuh l] /ˈɑl bɛrt ˈbær təl/ (Show IPA), 1770–1844, Danish sculptor.
- thrasonical — boastful; vainglorious.
- thunderbolt — a flash of lightning with the accompanying thunder.
- tin soldier — a miniature toy soldier of cast metal, usually of lead.
- to run wild — If something or someone, especially a child, runs wild, they behave in a natural, free, or uncontrolled way.
- toe-curling — If you describe something as toe-curling, you mean that it makes you feel very embarrassed.
- toggle iron — a pin, bolt, or rod placed transversely through a chain, an eye or loop in a rope, etc., as to bind it temporarily to another chain or rope similarly treated.