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11-letter words containing n, a, r, i, s

  • lead singer — main singer in a popular music group
  • leaf spring — a long, narrow, multiple spring composed of several layers of spring metal bracketed together: used in some suspension systems of carriages and automobiles.
  • legendaries — of, relating to, or of the nature of a legend.
  • legionaries — Plural form of legionary.
  • leopardskin — the skin of a leopard
  • lewis range — a mountain range in NW Montana, a front range of the N Rocky Mountains. Highest peak, Mount Cleveland, 10,466 feet (3192 meters).
  • liberalness — The property of being liberal.
  • lindisfarne — Holy Island (def 1).
  • line starve — (MIT, opposite of line feed) 1. To feed paper through a printer the wrong way by one line (most printers can't do this). On a display terminal, to move the cursor up to the previous line of the screen. "To print "X squared", you just output "X", line starve, "2", line feed." (The line starve causes the "2" to appear on the line above the "X", and the line feed gets back to the original line.) 2. A character (or character sequence) that causes a terminal to perform this action. ASCII 26, also called SUB or control-Z, was one common line-starve character in the days before microcomputers and the X3.64 terminal standard. Unlike "line feed", "line starve" is *not* standard ASCII terminology. Even among hackers it is considered silly. 3. (Proposed) A sequence such as \c (used in System V echo, as well as nroff and troff) that suppresses a newline or other character(s) that would normally be emitted.
  • linearities — Plural form of linearity.
  • linebackers — Plural form of linebacker.
  • literalness — in accordance with, involving, or being the primary or strict meaning of the word or words; not figurative or metaphorical: the literal meaning of a word.
  • long radius — the distance from the centre of a regular polygon to a vertex
  • lutheranism — of or relating to Luther, adhering to his doctrines, or belonging to one of the Protestant churches that bear his name.
  • macdesigner — A design CASE tool for the Mac from Excel Software, Inc.
  • machinators — Plural form of machinator.
  • machineries — an assemblage of machines or mechanical apparatuses: the machinery of a factory.
  • maidservant — a female servant.
  • mailpersons — Plural form of mailperson.
  • main course — Nautical. a square mainsail.
  • main street — a novel (1920) by Sinclair Lewis.
  • mainlanders — Plural form of mainlander.
  • mains water — gas supplied to a building through pipes
  • mainsprings — Plural form of mainspring.
  • mainstreams — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mainstream.
  • maintainers — Plural form of maintainer.
  • malingerers — Plural form of malingerer.
  • managership — a person who has control or direction of an institution, business, etc., or of a part, division, or phase of it.
  • mandarinism — A government of mandarins; character or spirit of the mandarins.
  • mandataries — Plural form of mandatary.
  • mandatories — authoritatively ordered; obligatory; compulsory: It is mandatory that all students take two years of math.
  • manicurists — Plural form of manicurist.
  • manneristic — a habitual or characteristic manner, mode, or way of doing something; distinctive quality or style, as in behavior or speech: He has an annoying mannerism of tapping his fingers while he talks. They copied his literary mannerisms but always lacked his ebullience.
  • manniferous — resulting in or producing manna
  • manorialism — the manorial organization, or its principles and practices in the Middle Ages.
  • manuscripts — Plural form of manuscript.
  • marcellinus — Saint, died a.d. 304, pope 296–304.
  • marchioness — marquise (defs 1, 2).
  • mare island — an island in the N part of San Francisco Bay, California.
  • marginalise — to place in a position of marginal importance, influence, or power: the government's attempts to marginalize criticism and restore public confidence.
  • marginalism — (economics) The use of marginal analysis to solve large classes of microeconomic problems.
  • marginalist — somene who adheres to the theory of marginalism
  • margravines — Plural form of margravine.
  • marine snow — small particles of organic biogenic marine sediment, including the remains of organisms, faecal matter, and the shells of planktonic organisms, that slowly drift down to the sea floor
  • marionettes — Plural form of marionette.
  • marlinspike — a pointed iron implement used in separating the strands of rope in splicing, marling, etc.
  • marshalling — a military officer of the highest rank, as in the French and some other armies. Compare field marshal.
  • martensitic — Of or pertaining to the mineral martensite.
  • martingales — Plural form of martingale.
  • martinsburg — a city in NE West Virginia.
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