11-letter words containing n, o, s, a, l
- schollander — Donald ("Don") born 1946, U.S. swimmer.
- scolopendra — a member of a genus of centipedes belonging to the Scolopendridae family
- 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.
- seasonality — the state or quality of being seasonal or dependent on the seasons: the seasonality of Halloween costumes.
- second-half — happening in the second half of a game
- secondarily — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
- secretional — of or relating to secretion
- seigniorial — of or relating to a seignior.
- semi-normal — conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural.
- sensational — producing or designed to produce a startling effect, strong reaction, intense interest, etc., especially by exaggerated, superficial, or lurid elements: a sensational novel.
- sensorially — with respect to sensation; in a sensorial way
- serrulation — serrulate condition or form.
- shacklebone — the wrist
- shallowness — of little depth; not deep: shallow water.
- sharonville — a town in SW Ohio.
- sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
- shingle oak — an oak, Quercus imbricaria, yielding a wood used for shingles, clapboards, etc.
- sigillation — the act of sealing
- signal book — a book containing the signals to be used for sending messages to other boats
- situational — manner of being situated; location or position with reference to environment: The situation of the house allowed for a beautiful view.
- slacken off — If something slackens off, it becomes slower, less active, or less intense.
- 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.
- slop around — to spill or splash (liquid).
- slot racing — the activity of racing slot cars.
- slow-acting — working or acting slowly, not immediately
- snailflower — a tropical vine, Vigna caracalla, of the legume family, having fragrant, yellowish or purplish flowers, a segment of which is shaped like a snail's shell.
- snob appeal — the attributes of something that appeal to people who associate those qualities with social or intellectual superiority; a thing's attractiveness to snobs.
- snowballing — a ball of snow pressed or rolled together, as for throwing.
- snowblading — the activity or sport of skiing with short skis (snowblades) and no poles
- social fund — (in Britain) a social security fund from which loans or payments may be made to people in cases of extreme need
- social unit — a person or a group of persons, as a family, functioning as a unit in society.
- socializing — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- soft launch — the launch of a website in stages, with regular updating
- solanaceous — belonging to the Solanaceae, the nightshade family of plants.
- solar month — month (def 4).
- solar panel — a bank of solar cells.
- solar-month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- soldier ant — a type of ant that has a disproportionately large head
- solemn mass — High Mass.
- solid angle — an angle formed by three or more planes intersecting in a common point or formed at the vertex of a cone.
- solidarnosc — a Polish organization of independent trade unions founded in 1980: outlawed by the government of Poland in 1982.
- 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).
- soluble rna — a small RNA molecule, consisting of a strand of nucleotides folded into a clover-leaf shape, that picks up an unattached amino acid within the cell cytoplasm and conveys it to the ribosome for protein synthesis. Abbreviation: tRNA.
- somnambular — relating to sleep-walking
- sonderclass — a special class of small racing yachts, restricted as to size, sail area, cost, etc.
- soul-baring — confessing intimate thoughts
- sound-alike — a person or thing that resembles another in sound
- southlander — a person from the south