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11-letter words containing o, r, a, l, e

  • semelparous — (of a plant) producing flowers and fruit only once before dying
  • semi-normal — conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural.
  • semipopular — relatively popular; quite popular
  • sensorially — with respect to sensation; in a sensorial way
  • serial port — A serial port on a computer is a place where you can connect the computer to a device such as a modem or a mouse.
  • serological — the science dealing with the immunological properties and actions of serum.
  • serrulation — serrulate condition or form.
  • servitorial — of or pertaining to a servitor
  • severalfold — comprising several parts or members.
  • shareholder — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
  • 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.
  • shore leave — permission to spend time ashore, usually 48 hours or more, granted a member of a ship's company.
  • shovelboard — the game of shuffleboard.
  • sialorrhoea — an abnormally high production of saliva
  • silver goal — (in certain competitions) a goal scored in a full half of extra time that is played if a match is drawn. This goal counts as the winner if it is the only goal scored in the full half or full period of extra time
  • slave labor — persons, especially a large group, performing labor under duress or threats, as prisoners in a concentration camp; a labor force of slaves or slavelike prisoners.
  • slaveholder — an owner of slaves.
  • sleeveboard — a small-scale ironing board for pressing sleeves, especially a narrow board that fits inside a coat sleeve.
  • slot aerial — a transmitting aerial in which the radiating elements are open slots in a surrounding metal sheet
  • smallholder — owner of small plot of land
  • smoke alarm — A smoke alarm or a smoke detector is a device fixed to the ceiling of a room which makes a loud noise if there is smoke in the air, to warn people.
  • 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.
  • soap boiler — a manufacturer of soap
  • sockdolager — something unusually large, heavy, etc.
  • solar cells — a photovoltaic cell that converts sunlight directly into electricity.
  • solar cycle — the variation of sunspots, prominences, flares, and other solar activity through an 11-year cycle.
  • solar flare — flare (def 22).
  • solar house — a house designed to absorb and store solar heat.
  • solar panel — a bank of solar cells.
  • solar power — energy generated by the sun
  • solarimeter — an instrument for measuring solar radiation.
  • soldier ant — a type of ant that has a disproportionately large head
  • sole trader — feme-sole trader.
  • 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.
  • sonderclass — a special class of small racing yachts, restricted as to size, sail area, cost, etc.
  • sorrel salt — potassium binoxalate.
  • southlander — a person from the south
  • speculatory — a place suitable for observation
  • spheroplast — a Gram-negative bacterial cell with a cell wall that has been altered or is partly missing, resulting in a spherical shape.
  • sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation
  • st.-leonard — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada: suburb of Montreal.
  • stable door — a door with an upper and lower leaf that may be opened separately
  • stadtholder — stadholder.
  • stakeholder — the holder of the stakes of a wager.
  • stallholder — A stallholder is a person who sells goods at a stall in a market.
  • steamroller — a heavy steam-powered vehicle having a roller for crushing, compacting, or leveling materials used for a road or the like.
  • stellarator — an experimental plasma-physics device in which magnetic fields confine the plasma within a tube shaped like a figure eight.
  • stereocilia — any of the long, flexible microvilli that superficially resemble cilia and occur as a brush border or series of tufts on the surface of various epithelial tissues.
  • stonewaller — to engage in stonewalling.
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