11-letter words containing o, s, e, l, t
- stobie pole — a steel and concrete pole for supporting electricity wires
- stock clerk — a worker in a stockroom who is in charge of the materials and goods stored there.
- stock level — the quantity or number of goods or raw materials kept on the premises of a shop or business
- stockholder — Also called stockowner. a holder or owner of stock in a corporation.
- stokes' law — the law that the force that retards a sphere moving through a viscous fluid is directly proportional to the velocity of the sphere, the radius of the sphere, and the viscosity of the fluid.
- stomachless — lacking or not having a stomach
- stone canal — (in certain echinoderms) a tube lined with calcareous deposits, connecting the madreporite with a circular canal around the mouth.
- stone plant — living stones.
- stone-blind — completely blind.
- stoneroller — an American minnow, Campostoma anomalum, named from its habit of moving stones as it feeds.
- stonewaller — to engage in stonewalling.
- stop volley — a softly hit volley that barely falls over the net and cannot be reached for a return.
- storyteller — a person who tells or writes stories or anecdotes.
- strandloper — a member of an extinct tribe of Khoikhoi or Bushmen who lived on seafood gathered on the beaches of southern Africa
- strawflower — any of several everlasting flowers, especially an Australian composite plant, Helichrysum bracteatum, having heads of chaffy yellow, orange, red, or white flowers.
- streetology — knowledge of how to get along in an urban neighborhood; street smarts.
- strenuously — characterized by vigorous exertion, as action, efforts, life, etc.: a strenuous afternoon of hunting.
- stroke hole — (in a handicap match) a hole at which players with a handicap deduct a stroke from the number taken to play the hole.
- stroke play — medal play.
- strong gale — a wind of 47–54 miles per hour (21–24 m/sec).
- struggle on — If you struggle on, you continue doing something rather than stopping, even though it is difficult.
- styliferous — having a style (part of the female organ of a plant)
- superpolite — extremely polite
- supervolute — (of convolute leaves) enveloping a rolled up leaf within the bud
- supportable — capable of being supported; endurable; maintainable.
- sweat blood — to perspire, especially freely or profusely.
- sweat lodge — (especially among North American Indians) a special building used for cleansing and purifying one's body by sweating, in which heated water is poured over heated stones to produce steam.
- swell front — a horizontally convex front, as of a chest of drawers.
- sympetalous — gamopetalous.
- symptomless — having or showing no symptoms.
- szombathely — a city in W Hungary: founded a.d. 48.
- tachysterol — an isomer of ergosterol, C28H44O, formed during the production of calciferol by the irradiation of ergosterol
- talent show — a theatrical show in which a series of usually amateur or aspiring singers, dancers, comedians, instrumentalists, etc., perform in the hope of gaining recognition.
- teaspoonful — the amount a teaspoon can hold.
- technopolis — a society with a concentration of technology-based businesses or an emphasis on technology
- teetotalism — the principle or practice of total abstinence from intoxicating drink.
- teleologist — the doctrine that final causes exist.
- telephonist — a telephone switchboard operator.
- telescoping — an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly; the other form (reflecting telescope) has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed. Compare radio telescope.
- telescopist — someone who is adept with a telescope
- telescopium — an inconspicuous constellation in the S hemisphere, close to Sagittarius and Ara
- telesphorus — pope a.d. 125?–136?.
- telesterion — (in ancient Greece) a building in which religious mysteries were celebrated.
- tenaciously — holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold (often followed by of): a tenacious grip on my arm; tenacious of old habits.
- tense logic — the study of the logical properties of tense operators, and of the logical relations between sentences having tense, by means of consideration of appropriate formal systems
- tensionally — in a tensional manner
- tensionless — the act of stretching or straining.
- terricolous — living on or in the ground.
- tessaraglot — relating to four languages grouped together
- testimonial — a written declaration certifying to a person's character, conduct, or qualifications, or to the value, excellence, etc., of a thing; a letter or written statement of recommendation.