11-letter words containing m, l, n
- sacramental — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
- salinometer — an instrument for measuring the amount of salt in a solution.
- salmon farm — an enclosed area of water devoted to the rearing of salmon for food
- salmon pink — salmon (defs 4, 5).
- salmonberry — the salmon-colored, edible fruit of a raspberry, Rubus spectabilis, of the Pacific coast of North America.
- salon music — music of a simple, agreeable, frequently sentimental character, played usually by a small orchestra.
- saltimbanco — a charlatan or fake
- samuel ting — Samuel C(hao) C(hung) [chou choo ng] /tʃaʊ tʃʊŋ/ (Show IPA), born 1936, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1976.
- san anselmo — a city in W California.
- sand myrtle — an evergreen shrub, Leiophyllum buxifolium, of the heath family, native to the eastern U.S., having simple, leathery leaves and clusters of white or pink flowers.
- scamblingly — in a scambling, noisy, or intrusive manner
- scopolamine — a colorless, syrupy, water-soluble alkaloid, C 1 7 H 2 1 NO 4 , obtained from certain plants of the nightshade family, used chiefly as a sedative and mydriatic and to alleviate the symptoms of motion sickness.
- screamingly — If you say that something is, for example, screamingly funny or screamingly boring, you mean that it is extremely funny or extremely boring.
- self-making — the act of a person or thing that makes: The making of a violin requires great skill.
- self-minded — having a certain kind of mind (usually used in combination): strong-minded.
- self-moving — capable of moving without an external agency.
- semi-annual — occurring, done, or published every half year or twice a year; semiyearly.
- semi-normal — conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural.
- semidiurnal — pertaining to, consisting of, or accomplished in half a day.
- semimonthly — made, occurring, done, or published twice a month.
- seminatural — partly natural and partly cultivated
- sempiternal — everlasting; eternal.
- sentimental — expressive of or appealing to sentiment, especially the tender emotions and feelings, as love, pity, or nostalgia: a sentimental song.
- sign manual — a personal signature, especially that of a sovereign or official on a public document.
- sillimanite — a mineral, aluminum silicate, Al 2 SiO 5 , occurring in the form of long, slender, and often fibrous crystals.
- silly money — an absurdly large or, less commonly, small amount of money
- simnel cake — any of several kinds of rich fruitcake covered with almond paste.
- single malt — a type of whisky that is made at a single distillery and from one type of malted grain
- single room — hotel room for one person
- single-malt — (of whiskey, especially Scotch) made from unblended malt whiskey distilled at one distillery.
- singularism — any philosophy that explains phenomena from a single principle
- slag cement — a cement composed of about 80 percent granulated slag and about 20 percent hydrated lime.
- slant rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
- slimnastics — exercises to help someone lose or control weight.
- slow motion — cinema: slower than in reality
- slow-motion — of, pertaining to or made in slow motion: a slow-motion replay.
- slow-moving — proceeding with or characterized by slow, sluggish, or leisurely movement or activity.
- slumberland — an imaginary land described to children as the place they enter during sleep.
- slumgullion — a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
- small print — text typewritten in a small-sized font
- smouldering — burning slowly without flame, usually emitting smoke
- snowmobiler — a person who drives a snowmobile
- 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.
- solemn mass — High Mass.
- solemn vows — the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience when taken as a perpetual and more solemn commitment
- solmization — the act, process, or system of using certain syllables, especially the sol-fa syllables, to represent the tones of the scale.
- solomon sea — a part of the Coral Sea, in the W South Pacific Ocean, between Papua New Guinea on the W and N and the Solomon Islands on the E. 280,000 sq. mi. (720,000 sq. km).
- somnambular — relating to sleep-walking
- splenectomy — excision or removal of the spleen.