11-letter words containing s, a, l, e, r, t
- last supper — the supper of Jesus and His disciples on the eve of His Crucifixion. Compare Lord's Supper (def 1).
- lateralised — Simple past tense and past participle of lateralise.
- lateritious — of the color of brick; brick-red.
- lay to rest — the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep: a good night's rest.
- lead astray — tempt into bad behaviour
- leafleteers — Plural form of leafleteer.
- least shrew — a small, brownish shrew, Cryptotis parva, of grassy regions of the eastern U.S.
- least-worst — bad but better than any available alternative
- leatherfish — a filefish.
- legislators — Plural form of legislator.
- legislatrix — a woman who is a member of a legislature.
- legislature — a deliberative body of persons, usually elective, who are empowered to make, change, or repeal the laws of a country or state; the branch of government having the power to make laws, as distinguished from the executive and judicial branches of government.
- lepromatous — the swollen lesion of leprosy.
- leptospiral — relating to, caused by, or characteristic of leptospires
- letterheads — Plural form of letterhead.
- letterspace — to space out (the letters of a word or line) for balance or emphasis.
- lex scripta — written law; statute law.
- liberalists — the quality or state of being liberal, as in behavior or attitude.
- line starve — (MIT, opposite of line feed) 1. To feed paper through a printer the wrong way by one line (most printers can't do this). On a display terminal, to move the cursor up to the previous line of the screen. "To print "X squared", you just output "X", line starve, "2", line feed." (The line starve causes the "2" to appear on the line above the "X", and the line feed gets back to the original line.) 2. A character (or character sequence) that causes a terminal to perform this action. ASCII 26, also called SUB or control-Z, was one common line-starve character in the days before microcomputers and the X3.64 terminal standard. Unlike "line feed", "line starve" is *not* standard ASCII terminology. Even among hackers it is considered silly. 3. (Proposed) A sequence such as \c (used in System V echo, as well as nroff and troff) that suppresses a newline or other character(s) that would normally be emitted.
- linearities — Plural form of linearity.
- literalness — in accordance with, involving, or being the primary or strict meaning of the word or words; not figurative or metaphorical: the literal meaning of a word.
- literaryism — habitual use of literary forms
- literatures — writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays.
- littermates — Plural form of littermate.
- little sark — one of the Channel Islands, in the English Channel E of Guernsey, connected to Sark by a natural causeway.
- liver salts — a preparation of mineral salts used to treat indigestion
- lobsterback — redcoat.
- lotus-eater — Classical Mythology. a member of a people whom Odysseus found existing in a state of languorous forgetfulness induced by their eating of the fruit of the legendary lotus; one of the lotophagi.
- lutheranism — of or relating to Luther, adhering to his doctrines, or belonging to one of the Protestant churches that bear his name.
- lythraceous — belonging to the Lythraceae, the loosestrife family of plants.
- magisterial — of, relating to, or befitting a master; authoritative; weighty; of importance or consequence: a magisterial pronouncement by the director of the board.
- malefactors — Plural form of malefactor.
- maltotriose — (carbohydrate) A maltooligosaccharide consisting of three glucose units.
- manteltrees — Plural form of manteltree.
- mare's-tail — a long narrow cirrus cloud whose flowing appearance somewhat resembles a horse's tail.
- mars violet — a dark grayish-purple color.
- martingales — Plural form of martingale.
- master file — Computers. a permanent file, periodically updated, that serves as an authoritative source of data.
- master plan — A master plan is a clever plan that is intended to help someone succeed in a very difficult or important task.
- master-plan — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
- masterclass — a small class for advanced students, especially a class in performance skills conducted by a distinguished musician.
- masterfully — dominating; self-willed; imperious.
- materialise — to come into perceptible existence; appear; become actual or real; be realized or carried out: Our plans never materialized.
- materialism — preoccupation with or emphasis on material objects, comforts, and considerations, with a disinterest in or rejection of spiritual, intellectual, or cultural values.
- materialist — a person who is markedly more concerned with material things than with spiritual, intellectual, or cultural values.
- maternalism — of, pertaining to, having the qualities of, or befitting a mother: maternal instincts.
- mayoralties — Plural form of mayoralty.
- memorialist — a person who writes memorials.
- menstrually — In a menstrual manner; in terms of the menses.
- meroblastic — (of certain eggs) undergoing partial cleavage, resulting in unequal blastomeres.