11-letter words containing r, o, l, e, s
- spectrology — the study of ghosts, phantoms, or apparitions.
- speculatory — a place suitable for observation
- spermophile — any of various burrowing rodents of the squirrel family, especially of the genus Spermophilus (or Citellus), sometimes sufficiently numerous to do much damage to crops, as the ground squirrels and susliks.
- spheroplast — a Gram-negative bacterial cell with a cell wall that has been altered or is partly missing, resulting in a spherical shape.
- spider hole — a foxhole with a camouflaged lid or cover in which a sniper hides
- spin bowler — a bowler who specializes in bowling balls with a spinning motion
- splendorous — brilliant or gorgeous appearance, coloring, etc.; magnificence: the splendor of the palace.
- 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.
- steelworker — a person employed in the process of manufacturing steel and steel products.
- stellarator — an experimental plasma-physics device in which magnetic fields confine the plasma within a tube shaped like a figure eight.
- stereoblind — lacking the ability to see in three dimensions through both eyes
- 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.
- stilbestrol — a nonsteroidal synthetic estrogen, C 18 H 20 O 2 , used in medicine chiefly in the treatment of menopausal symptoms and in animal feeds for chemical caponization: formerly used during pregnancy for the prevention of miscarriage but discontinued owing to its association with an increased risk of vaginal and cervical cancers in women having had fetal exposure. Abbreviation: DES.
- stock clerk — a worker in a stockroom who is in charge of the materials and goods stored there.
- stockholder — Also called stockowner. a holder or owner of stock in a corporation.
- stoneroller — an American minnow, Campostoma anomalum, named from its habit of moving stones as it feeds.
- stonewaller — to engage in stonewalling.
- 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)
- subarboreal — living or thriving under trees
- subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
- sulphureous — of the yellow colour of sulphur
- summer-long — lasting all summer
- superfluous — being more than is sufficient or required; excessive.
- supernormal — in excess of the normal or average: supernormal faculties; supernormal production.
- superpolite — extremely polite
- superschool — a large school
- supervolute — (of convolute leaves) enveloping a rolled up leaf within the bud
- supportable — capable of being supported; endurable; maintainable.
- swell front — a horizontally convex front, as of a chest of drawers.
- tachysterol — an isomer of ergosterol, C28H44O, formed during the production of calciferol by the irradiation of ergosterol
- telesphorus — pope a.d. 125?–136?.
- telesterion — (in ancient Greece) a building in which religious mysteries were celebrated.
- terricolous — living on or in the ground.
- tessaraglot — relating to four languages grouped together
- the gorbals — a district of Glasgow, formerly known for its slums