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

  • streptolysin — a type of hemolysin produced by certain species of streptococcus.
  • streptosolen — a type of South American shrub grown for ornamental purposes, with orange trumpet-shaped flowers
  • stretch limo — A stretch limo is a very long and luxurious car in which a rich, famous, or important person is driven somewhere.
  • stringholder — an oblong piece of wood at the lower end of the body of a viol or other stringed instrument to which the strings are attached.
  • strobe light — a device for studying the motion of a body, especially a body in rapid revolution or vibration, by making the motion appear to slow down or stop, as by periodically illuminating the body or viewing it through widely spaced openings in a revolving disk.
  • strobe-light — a device for studying the motion of a body, especially a body in rapid revolution or vibration, by making the motion appear to slow down or stop, as by periodically illuminating the body or viewing it through widely spaced openings in a revolving disk.
  • stromatolite — a laminated calcareous fossil structure built by marine algae and having a rounded or columnar form.
  • strongsville — a town in N Ohio.
  • strophiolate — having a strophiole
  • student loan — A student loan is a government loan that is available to students at a college or university in order to help them pay their expenses.
  • stunt double — someone who performs dangerous stunts in a film in place of an actor
  • stupendously — causing amazement; astounding; marvelous: stupendous news.
  • subeditorial — of or relating to a subeditor, the work of a subeditor or a subeditorship
  • subjectional — the act of subjecting.
  • sublineation — an underlining
  • subthreshold — (of a stimulus) too weak to produce a response.
  • suit oneself — a set of clothing, armor, or the like, intended for wear together.
  • super-polite — showing good manners toward others, as in behavior, speech, etc.; courteous; civil: a polite reply.
  • superfrontal — a piece of cloth placed over an altar and frontal and hanging down a few inches over the front of the altar
  • superovulate — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
  • suppletorily — supplying a deficiency.
  • surmountable — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
  • sweet almond — the nutlike kernel of the fruit of either of two trees, Prunus dulcis (sweet almond) or P. dulcis amara (bitter almond) which grow in warm temperate regions.
  • sweet clover — melilot.
  • sweet violet — a plant, Viola odorata, of the violet family, native to the Old World, having fragrant, usually purple flowers that are the source of an oil used in perfumery.
  • synecologist — a student of, or expert in, synecology
  • tail section — the back or rear section of an aeroplane
  • take counsel — receive advice
  • talent scout — a person whose business it is to recognize and recruit persons of marked aptitude for a certain field or occupation, especially in entertainment or sports.
  • technologies — the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment, drawing upon such subjects as industrial arts, engineering, applied science, and pure science.
  • technologist — a person who specializes in technology.
  • telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
  • teleosaurian — of or relating to the teleosaur
  • teleostomous — relating or belonging to the Teleostomi
  • teleshopping — electronic shopping via videotex or other interactive information service.
  • telesoftware — the transmission of computer programs on a teletext system
  • teleutospore — a spore of certain rust fungi, which carries the fungus through the winter and which, on germination, produces the promycelium.
  • tennis elbow — irritation of the synovial membrane, or joint rotary area, of the elbow, caused by immoderate motions while playing tennis or other sports; epicondylitis.
  • tenuirostral — pertaining to a group of birds Tenuirostres which have slender bills
  • tessellation — the art or practice of tessellating.
  • the absolute — ultimate reality regarded as uncaused, unmodified, unified and complete, timeless, etc.
  • the bollocks — something excellent
  • the homeless — those typically poor or sometimes mentally ill people who are unable to maintain a place to live and therefore often may sleep in the streets, parks, etc.
  • the likes of — of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc.: I cannot remember a like instance.
  • the lothians — three historic counties of SE central Scotland (now council areas): East Lothian, West Lothian, and Midlothian (including Edinburgh)
  • the lowlands — a low generally flat region of central Scotland, around the Forth and Clyde valleys, separating the Southern Uplands from the Highlands
  • the old days — the past
  • the olympics — the Olympic Games
  • the populars — cheap newspapers with mass circulation; the popular press
  • the saltsjön — an inlet of the Baltic Sea in Sweden
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