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11-letter words containing o, s, e, l, t

  • saddlecloth — Horse Racing. a cloth placed over the saddle of a racehorse bearing the horse's number.
  • safety bolt — a bolt or lock on a door or gate that cannot be moved from the outside
  • safety lock — a lock designed to prevent picking.
  • salinometer — an instrument for measuring the amount of salt in a solution.
  • sansculotte — (originally) a revolutionary of the poorer class
  • sapropelite — a foul-smelling mud
  • satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • schecklaton — a gilded leather used for embroidering jacks
  • school time — the period of the day or year when children are at school
  • schorlomite — a mineral that is black in colour and belongs to the garnet group
  • scientology — the philosophy of the Church of Scientology, a nondenominational movement founded in the US in the 1950s, which emphasizes self-knowledge as a means of realizing full spiritual potential
  • sclerectomy — excision of part of the sclera.
  • sclerometer — any instrument for determining with precision the degree of hardness of a substance, especially a mineral, as by measuring the pressure necessary to pierce or scratch it.
  • sclerotitis — scleritis.
  • sclerotized — (especially of the cuticle of an arthropod) hardened by the presence of substances other than chitin, as by scleroproteins, waxes, or calcium salts.
  • seasonality — the state or quality of being seasonal or dependent on the seasons: the seasonality of Halloween costumes.
  • secretional — of or relating to secretion
  • selectorate — a body of people responsible for making a selection, esp members of a political party who select candidates for an election
  • selectorial — of or relating to selections or selectors
  • self-profit — Often, profits. pecuniary gain resulting from the employment of capital in any transaction. Compare gross profit, net profit. the ratio of such pecuniary gain to the amount of capital invested. returns, proceeds, or revenue, as from property or investments.
  • self-strong — having, showing, or able to exert great bodily or muscular power; physically vigorous or robust: a strong boy.
  • semimonthly — made, occurring, done, or published twice a month.
  • sensational — producing or designed to produce a startling effect, strong reaction, intense interest, etc., especially by exaggerated, superficial, or lurid elements: a sensational novel.
  • 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.
  • serrulation — serrulate condition or form.
  • servitorial — of or pertaining to a servitor
  • settle down — to appoint, fix, or resolve definitely and conclusively; agree upon (as time, price, or conditions).
  • shade cloth — a covering made of cloth or plastic, especially one used to control the amount of sunlight to which plants are exposed.
  • short field — the area of the infield between third base and second, covered by the shortstop.
  • short novel — a prose narrative midway between the novel and the short story in length and scope
  • short title — an abridged listing in a catalog or bibliography, giving only such essential information as the author's name and the book's title, publisher, and date and place of publication.
  • short-lived — living or lasting only a little while.
  • shuttlecock — Also called shuttle. the object that is struck back and forth in badminton and battledore, consisting of a feathered cork head and a plastic crown.
  • silent vote — the vote of persons who have not previously expressed or made evident a preference.
  • silhouetted — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
  • silverpoint — a technique of drawing with a silver stylus on specially prepared paper.
  • single knot — overhand knot.
  • single-foot — rack3 (def 1).
  • single-shot — (of a firearm) requiring loading before each shot; not having or using a cartridge magazine.
  • skatemobile — a scooterlike vehicle built of boxes, boards, or the like, and mounted on skate wheels.
  • skeletonize — to reduce to a skeleton, outline, or framework.
  • skittle out — to dismiss (batsmen) quickly
  • slave coast — the coast of W equatorial Africa, between the Benin and Volta rivers: a center of slavery traffic 16th–19th centuries.
  • 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.
  • slipperwort — any of several tropical American plants belonging to the genus Calceolaria, of the figwort family, having opposite or whorled leaves and slipper-shaped flowers.
  • slit pocket — a pocket on the underside of a garment, reached through a vertical opening
  • slop bucket — slop pail.
  • slot aerial — a transmitting aerial in which the radiating elements are open slots in a surrounding metal sheet
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