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11-letter words containing n, e, r, s, t

  • lens turret — a rotating device on a camera for bringing any of several lenses in front of the shutter.
  • libertinism — libertine practices or habits of life; disregard of authority or convention in sexual or religious matters.
  • lignotubers — Plural form of lignotuber.
  • lindenhurst — a village on central Long Island, in SE New York.
  • 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.
  • liner notes — Usually, liner notes. explanatory or interpretative notes about an audio album, as a record, CD, etc., printed on the cover or case or otherwise provided.
  • listen here — You say listen here when you are going to say something important to someone, especially when you are angry at what they have done or said.
  • 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.
  • lobster net — a net used for catching lobsters
  • lucy stoner — a person who advocates the retention of the maiden name by married women. Compare Stone (def 5).
  • lutheranism — of or relating to Luther, adhering to his doctrines, or belonging to one of the Protestant churches that bear his name.
  • maidservant — a female servant.
  • main street — a novel (1920) by Sinclair Lewis.
  • mains water — gas supplied to a building through pipes
  • mainstreams — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mainstream.
  • maintainers — Plural form of maintainer.
  • mandataries — Plural form of mandatary.
  • mandatories — authoritatively ordered; obligatory; compulsory: It is mandatory that all students take two years of math.
  • 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.
  • manteltrees — Plural form of manteltree.
  • mare's-nest — something imagined to be an extraordinary discovery but proving to be a delusion or a hoax: The announced cure for the disease was merely another mare's-nest.
  • marionettes — Plural form of marionette.
  • martensitic — Of or pertaining to the mineral martensite.
  • martingales — Plural form of martingale.
  • master hand — an expert: a master hand at diplomacy.
  • master plan — A master plan is a clever plan that is intended to help someone succeed in a very difficult or important task.
  • master-plan — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
  • masterminds — Plural form of mastermind.
  • maternalism — of, pertaining to, having the qualities of, or befitting a mother: maternal instincts.
  • measurement — the act of measuring.
  • mecopterans — Plural form of mecopteran.
  • menservants — plural of manservant.
  • menstrually — In a menstrual manner; in terms of the menses.
  • menstruated — Simple past tense and past participle of menstruate.
  • menstruates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of menstruate.
  • mensuration — the branch of geometry that deals with the measurement of length, area, or volume.
  • mensurative — adapted for or concerned with measuring.
  • mesenteries — Plural form of mesentery.
  • metacenters — Plural form of metacenter.
  • metanephros — one of the three embryonic excretory organs of higher vertebrates, becoming the permanent and functional kidney.
  • metternichs — Prince Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar von [kley-mens ven-tsuh l ney-paw-moo k loh-tahr fuh n,, loh-tahr] /ˈkleɪ mɛns ˈvɛn tsəl ˈneɪ pɔ mʊk ˈloʊ tɑr fən,, loʊˈtɑr/ (Show IPA), 1773–1859, Austrian statesman and diplomat.
  • miniaturise — (British) alternative spelling of miniaturize.
  • miniskirted — Wearing a miniskirt.
  • ministerial — pertaining to the ministry of religion, or to a minister or other member of the clergy.
  • ministering — a person authorized to conduct religious worship; member of the clergy; pastor.
  • ministerium — an organization of local ministers or religious leaders who work with other community leaders on social or educational programs.
  • ministrokes — Plural form of ministroke.
  • minoritised — Simple past tense and past participle of minoritise.
  • misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
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