10-letter words containing l, o, r, e, i
- socdoliger — a conclusive argument, a hard blow
- socializer — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- sock-liner — a thin piece of material, as leather, that is laid on top of the insole of a shoe, boot, or other footwear.
- soil creep — creep of soil on even slopes; often accelerated by spring freeze-and-thaw or general periglacial conditions. Compare creep (def 22a).
- solderings — any parts which have been soldered together
- soldier on — a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
- soldiering — a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
- solemnizer — to perform the ceremony of (marriage).
- solidarize — to unite or come together; become solidified.
- somerville — Mary Fairfax Greig [greg] /grɛg/ (Show IPA), 1780–1872, Scottish mathematician and astronomer.
- sortileger — a diviner
- sourdeline — a type of bagpipe
- spheroidal — pertaining to a spheroid or spheroids.
- spill over — be full of: emotion
- staurolite — a mineral, basic iron aluminum silicate, Fe 2 Al 2 O 7 (SiO 4) 4 (OH), occurring in brown to black prismatic crystals, which are often twinned in the form of a cross.
- stelliform — star-shaped.
- story line — plot (def 2).
- storyville — a red-light district of New Orleans known as a wellspring of jazz before World War I.
- strike oil — any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
- strobilate — to undergo strobilation
- strobiline — of or relating to a strobilus
- strophiole — a small growth on some plants' seeds
- superiorly — higher in station, rank, degree, importance, etc.: a superior officer.
- symbolizer — a person or thing that symbolizes something else
- tailorable — capable of being made into clothing: tailorable fabrics.
- telecopier — a fax machine
- teliospore — a spore of certain rust fungi, which carries the fungus through the winter and which, on germination, produces the promycelium.
- tenderloin — (in beef or pork) the tender meat of the muscle running through the sirloin and terminating before the ribs.
- tendrilous — a threadlike, leafless organ of climbing plants, often growing in spiral form, which attaches itself to or twines round some other body, so as to support the plant.
- tetraploid — having a chromosome number that is four times the basic or haploid number.
- tetrapolis — a conglomeration of four cities
- thermopile — a device consisting of a number of thermocouples joined in series, used for generating thermoelectric current or for detecting and measuring radiant energy, as from a star.
- thimerosal — a cream-colored, crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 9 H 9 HgNaO 2 S, used chiefly as an antiseptic.
- tidal bore — an abrupt rise of tidal water moving rapidly inland from the mouth of an estuary.
- tile forth — (language) A Forth interpreter in C for Unix by Mikael Patel <[email protected]>. TILE Forth comes with many Forth libraries. It conforms to the Forth83 standard and is distributed under GPL. Availalbe via FTP from a GNU archive site.
- title role — (in a play, opera, etc.) the role or character from which the title is derived: She sang the title role in Carmen.
- toiletries — any article or preparation used in cleaning or grooming oneself, as soap or deodorant.
- toleration — an act or instance of tolerating, especially of what is not actually approved; forbearance: to show toleration toward the protesters.
- tolerative — to allow the existence, presence, practice, or act of without prohibition or hindrance; permit.
- tollbridge — a bridge where tolls are collected
- tolu resin — tolu.
- toric lens — a lens used to correct astigmatism, having one of its surfaces shaped like part of a torus so that its focal lengths are different in different meridians
- torrential — pertaining to or having the nature of a torrent.
- torricelli — Evangelista [e-vahn-je-lee-stah] /ɛˌvɑn dʒɛˈli stɑ/ (Show IPA), 1608–47, Italian physicist.
- tortellini — navel-shaped pasta
- tourmaline — any of a group of silicate minerals of complex composition, containing boron, aluminum, etc., usually black but having various colored, transparent varieties used as gems.
- towel rail — a rail or frame in a bathroom, etc, for hanging towels on
- towel ring — a circular hoop in a bathroom, etc, for hanging towels on
- tower-mill — a windmill of which only the cap rotates to face the sails into the wind.
- trail rope — a guide rope on an aerostat.