10-letter words containing s, a, c, l, i
- insociable — unsociable.
- insociably — in an insociable manner
- interclass — between classes; involving different classes.
- interlaces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interlace.
- intraclass — Within a class.
- isagogical — Alternative form of isagogic.
- islamicist — a specialist in the study of Islam
- island arc — a curved chain of islands, as the Aleutians or Antilles, usually convex toward the ocean and enclosing a deep-sea basin.
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- isocaloric — Having the same calorific value.
- isocephaly — (of a composition) having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
- isochronal — equal or uniform in time.
- isoclinals — Plural form of isoclinal.
- isoelastic — noting or pertaining to a substance or system exhibiting uniform elasticity throughout.
- isopycnals — Plural form of isopycnal.
- italicised — to print in italic type.
- italicizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of italicize.
- jesuitical — of or relating to Jesuits or Jesuitism.
- juristical — Alternative form of juristic.
- kabalistic — cabalistic.
- kiloparsec — a unit of distance, equal to 1000 parsecs. Abbreviation: kpc.
- kilopascal — one thousand pascals
- lac insect — a scale insect, Laccifer lacca, of southeast Asia, the female of which secretes lac, a substance used in the preparation of shellac, wax, etc.
- laccoliths — Plural form of laccolith.
- lackadaisy — alas
- laconicism — laconic brevity.
- lactosuria — the presence of lactose in the urine
- lacustrine — of or relating to a lake.
- lamarckism — the Lamarckian theory that characteristics acquired by habit, use, or disuse may be passed on to future generations through inheritance.
- lambdacism — excessive use of the sound l, its misarticulation, or its substitution for the sound r.
- lancashire — a county in NW England. 1174 sq. mi. (3040 sq. km).
- lancetfish — any large, marine fish of the genus Alepisaurus, having daggerlike teeth.
- larithmics — the study of quantitative relations in population aggregates.
- larvicides — Plural form of larvicide.
- lascivious — inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd: a lascivious, girl-chasing old man.
- laser disc — video, audio format: optical disc
- last-ditch — done finally in desperation to avoid defeat, failure, disaster, etc.: a last-ditch attempt to avert war.
- laticifers — Plural form of laticifer.
- launchings — Plural form of launching.
- laviscious — (nonstandard) Lascivious.
- legalistic — strict adherence, or the principle of strict adherence, to law or prescription, especially to the letter rather than the spirit.
- lemniscate — a plane curve generated by the locus of the point at which a variable tangent to a rectangular hyperbola intersects a perpendicular from the center to the tangent. Equation: r 2 = 2 a 2 cosθ.
- lewis acid — any substance capable of forming a covalent bond with a base by accepting a pair of electrons from it.
- lexicalise — Alternative spelling of lexicalize.
- licensable — formal permission from a governmental or other constituted authority to do something, as to carry on some business or profession.
- life class — nude drawing lesson
- life space — a spatial representation of all the forces that control a person's behaviour
- lightfaces — Plural form of lightface.
- liliaceous — of or like the lily.
- line space — (on a typewriter, typesetter, printer, or the like) the horizontal space provided for a line of typing, typesetting, printing, etc.