11-letter words containing n, l, s, t
- sempiternal — everlasting; eternal.
- senate bill — a proposed new law introduced for debate before the upper chamber of the legislature in, for example, the US, Canada, Australia, etc
- sensational — producing or designed to produce a startling effect, strong reaction, intense interest, etc., especially by exaggerated, superficial, or lurid elements: a sensational novel.
- sensibility — capacity for sensation or feeling; responsiveness or susceptibility to sensory stimuli.
- sensitively — endowed with sensation; having perception through the senses.
- sentimental — expressive of or appealing to sentiment, especially the tender emotions and feelings, as love, pity, or nostalgia: a sentimental song.
- septavalent — having a valence of seven; heptavalent.
- septivalent — having a valence of seven; heptavalent.
- serpentlike — resembling a serpent
- serrulation — serrulate condition or form.
- sertularian — a type of hydroid that forms stiff, feathery colonies in which the cups holding the zooids are sessile.
- servantless — without servants; not having a servant or servants
- settle down — to appoint, fix, or resolve definitely and conclusively; agree upon (as time, price, or conditions).
- settledness — the quality or condition of being settled
- shinplaster — a plaster for the shin or leg.
- shinsplints — inflammation of the muscles around the shinbone caused by strenuous exercise
- shoplifting — to steal (merchandise) as a shoplifter.
- short novel — a prose narrative midway between the novel and the short story in length and scope
- sigillation — the act of sealing
- silent vote — the vote of persons who have not previously expressed or made evident a preference.
- silk cotton — the silky covering of the seeds of certain tropical trees of the bombax family, used for stuffing cushions, pillows, etc.
- sillimanite — a mineral, aluminum silicate, Al 2 SiO 5 , occurring in the form of long, slender, and often fibrous crystals.
- silverpoint — a technique of drawing with a silver stylus on specially prepared paper.
- silvestrian — of or relating to woodland
- singability — to utter words or sounds in succession with musical modulations of the voice; vocalize melodically.
- single knot — overhand knot.
- single malt — a type of whisky that is made at a single distillery and from one type of malted grain
- single tape — a ribbon of material, usually with a plastic base, coated on one side (single tape) or both sides (double tape) with a substance containing iron oxide, to make it sensitive to impulses from an electromagnet: used to record sound, images, data, etc.
- single-foot — rack3 (def 1).
- single-knit — a fabric made on warp knit.
- single-malt — (of whiskey, especially Scotch) made from unblended malt whiskey distilled at one distillery.
- single-shot — (of a firearm) requiring loading before each shot; not having or using a cartridge magazine.
- single-step — to perform a single instruction on (a program), generally under the control of a debug program
- singlestick — a short, heavy stick.
- singletrack — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
- singularist — someone who advocates singularism
- singularity — the state, fact, or quality of being singular.
- singulative — a grammatical form or construction that expresses a singular entity or indicates that an individual is singled out from a group, especially as opposed to a collective noun, as snowflake as opposed to snow.
- sir stanley — Arthur Penrhyn [pen-rin] /ˈpɛn rɪn/ (Show IPA), (Dean Stanley) 1815–81, English clergyman and author.
- situational — manner of being situated; location or position with reference to environment: The situation of the house allowed for a beautiful view.
- sixteenthly — in sixteenth place
- skeletonize — to reduce to a skeleton, outline, or framework.
- skillcentre — an institution providing vocational training or retraining for employed or unemployed people
- slag cement — a cement composed of about 80 percent granulated slag and about 20 percent hydrated lime.
- slant board — a tiltable board that allows a person to lie with the feet higher than the head while doing exercises.
- slant front — a flap of a desk, sloping upward and inward to close the desk, and opening forward and downward to a horizontal position as a writing surface: a form of fall front.
- slant rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
- sleep on it — contemplate sth overnight
- sleeve note — The sleeve notes are short pieces of writing on the covers of records, which tell you something about the music or the musicians.
- sleuthhound — a bloodhound.