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11-letter words containing l, o, s, e, i

  • shigellosis — an acute intestinal infection caused by a bacterium of the genus Shigella, especially S. dysenteriae, common among children and characterized by fever, abdominal pain, and diarrhea.
  • shingle oak — an oak, Quercus imbricaria, yielding a wood used for shingles, clapboards, etc.
  • shoe polish — wax for making footwear shiny
  • shoofly pie — an open pie filled with a sweet crumb and molasses mixture and baked.
  • 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.
  • shroud-line — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
  • sialorrhoea — an abnormally high production of saliva
  • siderophile — (of a cell or tissue) having an affinity for iron.
  • siecle d'or — the period of the reign of Louis XIV of France.
  • silent vote — the vote of persons who have not previously expressed or made evident a preference.
  • silhouetted — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
  • silicon fen — an area of Cambridgeshire, esp around the city of Cambridge, in which industries associated with information technology are concentrated
  • siliconized — (of a material) having silicone added.
  • silly money — an absurdly large or, less commonly, small amount of money
  • silver book — (publication)   Jensen and Wirth's infamous "Pascal User Manual and Report", so called because of the silver cover of the widely distributed Springer-Verlag second edition of 1978 (ISBN 0-387-90144-2). See also book titles, Pascal.
  • silver foil — silver or silver-colored metal in foil form.
  • silver goal — (in certain competitions) a goal scored in a full half of extra time that is played if a match is drawn. This goal counts as the winner if it is the only goal scored in the full half or full period of extra time
  • silver orfe — one of the two varieties of orfe, an aquarium fish
  • silverpoint — a technique of drawing with a silver stylus on specially prepared paper.
  • simple pole — a pole of order 1 of a function of a complex variable.
  • simple vows — the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience when taken for a limited period
  • single bond — a chemical linkage consisting of one covalent bond between two atoms of a molecule, represented in chemical formulas by one line or two vertical dots, as C–H or C:H.
  • single knot — overhand knot.
  • single room — hotel room for one person
  • single-foot — rack3 (def 1).
  • single-shot — (of a firearm) requiring loading before each shot; not having or using a cartridge magazine.
  • skatemobile — a scooterlike vehicle built of boxes, boards, or the like, and mounted on skate wheels.
  • skeletonize — to reduce to a skeleton, outline, or framework.
  • skittle out — to dismiss (batsmen) quickly
  • sleep on it — contemplate sth overnight
  • slime mould — any of various simple spore-producing organisms typically found as slimy masses on rotting vegetation, where they engulf food particles by amoeboid movements. Formerly regarded as fungi, they are now classified as protoctists of the phyla Myxomycota (true, or cellular slime moulds) or Acrasiomycota (plasmodial slime moulds)
  • 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.
  • slit pocket — a pocket on the underside of a garment, reached through a vertical opening
  • slot aerial — a transmitting aerial in which the radiating elements are open slots in a surrounding metal sheet
  • slow-witted — mentally slow or dull; slow in comprehension and thinking.
  • smouldering — burning slowly without flame, usually emitting smoke
  • snailflower — a tropical vine, Vigna caracalla, of the legume family, having fragrant, yellowish or purplish flowers, a segment of which is shaped like a snail's shell.
  • snorkelling — the activity of swimming with a snorkel
  • snowmobiler — a person who drives a snowmobile
  • soap boiler — a manufacturer of soap
  • soapolallie — a drink made by crushing soapberries
  • social evil — prostitution.
  • social life — leisure time spent with other people
  • sociologese — the recondite writing characteristic of sociology and sociologists
  • sociosexual — of or relating to relationships between persons that involve sexuality.
  • sockdoliger — a conclusive argument; a hard blow
  • soft pencil — a type of pencil that contains a thicker, oilier and darker form of graphite
  • soft-boiled — to boil (an egg) just long enough for the yolk and white to partially solidify, usually three or four minutes.
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