11-letter words containing l, o, s, e, i
- nephrolepis — any fern of the tropical genus Nephrolepis, some species of which are grown as ornamental greenhouse or house plants for their handsome deeply-cut drooping fronds: family Polypodiaceae
- nephroliths — a renal calculus; kidney stone.
- neurologist — a physician specializing in neurology.
- neutrophils — Plural form of neutrophil.
- nippleworts — Plural form of nipplewort.
- nitromersol — a brownish-yellow or yellow, granular, water-insoluble powder, C 7 H 5 HgNO 3 : used in alkaline solution chiefly as an antiseptic.
- noblesville — a town in central Indiana.
- noiselessly — accompanied by or making little or no noise; silent; quiet: a noiseless step; a noiseless typewriter.
- nominalised — Simple past tense and past participle of nominalise.
- non-fissile — capable of being split or divided; cleavable.
- non-hostile — of, relating to, or characteristic of an enemy: a hostile nation.
- non-skilled — having skill; trained or experienced in work that requires skill.
- non-sterile — free from living germs or microorganisms; aseptic: sterile surgical instruments.
- nonagesimal — (astronomy) The middle to highest point of a part of an ecliptic that is above the horizon at any period of time.
- nondisabled — physically or mentally impaired, injured, or incapacitated.
- nonisolated — Not isolated.
- nonlistener — One who does not listen.
- nonmiscible — not capable of being mixed.
- nonsensible — having, using, or showing good sense or sound judgment: a sensible young woman.
- nonsensical — (of words or language) having little or no meaning; making little or no sense: A baby's babbling is appealingly nonsensical.
- nonsilicate — Mineralogy. any of the largest group of mineral compounds, as quartz, beryl, garnet, feldspar, mica, and various kinds of clay, consisting of SiO 2 or SiO 4 groupings and one or more metallic ions, with some forms containing hydrogen. Silicates constitute well over 90 percent of the rock-forming minerals of the earth's crust.
- nonsinkable — (of items designed to float on water) not liable to sink
- normalities — conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural.
- northerlies — Plural form of northerly.
- nourishable — able to be nourished; benefiting from nourishment
- novelettish — Resembling or characteristic of a novelette.
- novelettist — a person who writes novelettes
- nucleotides — any of a group of molecules that, when linked together, form the building blocks of DNA or RNA: composed of a phosphate group, the bases adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine, and a pentose sugar, in RNA the thymine base being replaced by uracil.
- object lisp — (language) An object-oriented Lisp developed by Lisp Machines Inc. (LMI) in about 1987. Object Lisp was based on nested closures and operator shadowing. Several competing object-orientated extensions to Lisp were around at the time, such as Flavors, in use by Symbolics; Common Objects, developed by Hewlett-Packard; and CommonLoops in use by Xerox. LMI submitted the specification as a candidate for an object-oriented standard for Common Lisp, but it was defeated in favour of CLOS.
- obligements — Plural form of obligement.
- obliqueness — The characteristic of being oblique.
- obliquities — Plural form of obliquity.
- obliterates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obliterate.
- observingly — Attentively, observantly.
- obsessional — the domination of one's thoughts or feelings by a persistent idea, image, desire, etc.
- obsessively — In an obsessive manner.
- obsolescing — to be or become obsolescent.
- obstetrical — of or relating to the care and treatment of women in childbirth and during the period before and after delivery.
- obstinately — firmly or stubbornly adhering to one's purpose, opinion, etc.; not yielding to argument, persuasion, or entreaty.
- obtrusively — having or showing a disposition to obtrude, as by imposing oneself or one's opinions on others.
- occidentals — Plural form of occidental.
- oenophilist — a person who enjoys wines, usually as a connoisseur.
- off-license — a license permitting the sale of sealed bottles of alcoholic beverages to be taken away from the premises by the purchaser.
- offensively — causing resentful displeasure; highly irritating, angering, or annoying: offensive television commercials.
- officialese — a style of language used in some official statements, often criticized for its use of polysyllabic jargon and obscure, pretentiously wordy phrasing.
- officialise — to make official; place under official authority or control.
- offset-line — something that counterbalances, counteracts, or compensates for something else; compensating equivalent.
- old castile — a region in N Spain: formerly a province.
- old english — Also called Anglo-Saxon. the English language of a.d. c450–c1150. Abbreviation: OE.
- old flemish — the Flemish language before c1300.