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

  • soil binder — a plant that prevents or inhibits erosion by providing a ground cover and forming a dense network of roots that hold the soil.
  • solarimeter — an instrument for measuring solar radiation.
  • soldier ant — a type of ant that has a disproportionately large head
  • soldier fly — any of several flies of the family Stratiomyidae, characterized by brightly colored abdominal stripes.
  • soldierfish — any of several squirrelfishes of the family Holocentridae.
  • soldierlike — resembling a soldier
  • soldiership — a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
  • solicitudes — the state of being solicitous; anxiety or concern.
  • solid angle — an angle formed by three or more planes intersecting in a common point or formed at the vertex of a cone.
  • solid model — A solid model is a representation of a solid (= not liquid or gas) object produced by a computer and used in simulation.
  • solid-state — designating or pertaining to electronic devices, as transistors or crystals, that can control current without the use of moving parts, heated filaments, or vacuum gaps.
  • soliloquise — to utter a soliloquy; talk to oneself.
  • soliloquize — to utter a soliloquy; talk to oneself.
  • some little — rather extensive; fairly full
  • soteriology — the doctrine of salvation through Jesus Christ.
  • soul sister — a black female, especially a fellow black female.
  • sound-alike — a person or thing that resembles another in sound
  • soured milk — milk that has been deliberately soured by fermentation or by adding acids such as lemon juice or vinegar, to be used in cooking
  • sovereignly — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
  • sovietology — Kremlinology.
  • sow thistle — any composite plant belonging to the genus Sonchus, especially S. oleraceus, a weed having thistlelike leaves, yellow flowers, and a milky juice.
  • soybean oil — a pale-yellow oil derived from soybeans by expression or solvent extraction: used as a food and in the manufacture of soap, candles, inks, paints, varnishes, etc.
  • specialogue — a mail-order catalogue aimed at a specific group of customers
  • speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
  • spermophile — any of various burrowing rodents of the squirrel family, especially of the genus Spermophilus (or Citellus), sometimes sufficiently numerous to do much damage to crops, as the ground squirrels and susliks.
  • spider hole — a foxhole with a camouflaged lid or cover in which a sniper hides
  • spin bowler — a bowler who specializes in bowling balls with a spinning motion
  • splint bone — one of the rudimentary, splintlike metacarpal or metatarsal bones of the horse or some allied animal, one on each side of the back of each cannon bone.
  • splodginess — the state of being splodgy
  • sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation
  • st.-emilion — a dry claret wine from the parish of St.-Émilion in the Bordeaux region of France.
  • steatolysis — the digestive process whereby fats are emulsified and then hydrolysed to fatty acids and glycerine
  • stellionate — any crime of unspecified class that involves fraud, especially one that involves the selling of the same property to different people.
  • stenohaline — (of an aquatic organism) unable to withstand wide variation in salinity of the surrounding water.
  • stereoblind — lacking the ability to see in three dimensions through both eyes
  • stereocilia — any of the long, flexible microvilli that superficially resemble cilia and occur as a brush border or series of tufts on the surface of various epithelial tissues.
  • stilbestrol — a nonsteroidal synthetic estrogen, C 18 H 20 O 2 , used in medicine chiefly in the treatment of menopausal symptoms and in animal feeds for chemical caponization: formerly used during pregnancy for the prevention of miscarriage but discontinued owing to its association with an increased risk of vaginal and cervical cancers in women having had fetal exposure. Abbreviation: DES.
  • stobie pole — a steel and concrete pole for supporting electricity wires
  • stone-blind — completely blind.
  • styliferous — having a style (part of the female organ of a plant)
  • subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
  • subvocalize — to form (words) silently by moving the lips or other vocal organs without vocalization
  • sulfonamide — sulfa drug.
  • superpolite — extremely polite
  • suzie cobol — /soo'zee koh'bol/ 1. (IBM, probably from Frank Zappa's "Suzy Creamcheese") A coder straight out of training school who knows everything except the value of comments in plain English. Also (fashionable among personkind wishing to avoid accusations of sexism) "Sammy Cobol" or (in some non-IBM circles) "Cobol Charlie". 2. (proposed) Meta-name for any code grinder, analogous to J. Random Hacker.
  • swivelblock — a block that supports a swivel
  • technopolis — a society with a concentration of technology-based businesses or an emphasis on technology
  • teetotalism — the principle or practice of total abstinence from intoxicating drink.
  • teleologist — the doctrine that final causes exist.
  • telephonist — a telephone switchboard operator.
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