10-letter words containing s, a, l, i, e
- lacustrine — of or relating to a lake.
- ladies aid — a local organization of women who raise money for their church.
- ladieswear — clothes designed for women
- lagerkvist — Pär [par] /pær/ (Show IPA), 1891–1974, Swedish novelist, poet, and essayist: Nobel Prize 1951.
- lagniappes — Plural form of lagniappe.
- lamaseries — Plural form of lamasery.
- lamebrains — Plural form of lamebrain.
- lammastide — the season of Lammas.
- lancashire — a county in NW England. 1174 sq. mi. (3040 sq. km).
- lancetfish — any large, marine fish of the genus Alepisaurus, having daggerlike teeth.
- landladies — Plural form of landlady.
- landslides — Plural form of landslide.
- languished — Simple past tense and past participle of languish.
- languisher — One who languishes.
- languishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of languish.
- laniferous — wool-bearing: sheep and other laniferous animals.
- lanternist — someone who operates a magic lantern
- lanuginose — covered with lanugo, or soft, downy hairs.
- lapidaries — Plural form of lapidary.
- lapidifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lapidify.
- large-size — (of clothing, goods, merchandise, etc) of a bigger size than average
- larvicides — Plural form of larvicide.
- laser disc — video, audio format: optical disc
- laser disk — Computers, Television. optical disk.
- last rites — anointing of the sick.
- late riser — somebody who tends to wake up and get out of bed at a later time than considered normal
- lateralise — Alt form lateralize.
- laticifers — Plural form of laticifer.
- laurentius — Saint, Lawrence, Saint.
- lavatories — Plural form of lavatory.
- lavishment — The act of lavishing.
- lavishness — expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion: lavish spending.
- lay sister — a woman who has taken religious vows and habit but is employed in her order chiefly in manual labor.
- leadership — the position or function of a leader, a person who guides or directs a group: He managed to maintain his leadership of the party despite heavy opposition. Synonyms: administration, management, directorship, control, governorship, stewardship, hegemony.
- leaf sight — a folding rear sight on certain rifles
- legal list — a list of investments that fiduciaries and certain institutions, such as banks and insurance companies, are legally authorized to make.
- legal-size — (of paper) measuring approximately 8½ × 14 inches (22 × 36 cm).
- legalising — Present participle of legalise.
- legalistic — strict adherence, or the principle of strict adherence, to law or prescription, especially to the letter rather than the spirit.
- legalities — the state or quality of being in conformity with the law; lawfulness.
- legateship — The office or authority of a legate.
- legislated — Simple past tense and past participle of legislate.
- legislates — to exercise the function of legislation; make or enact laws.
- legislator — a person who gives or makes laws.
- leiomyomas — Plural form of leiomyoma.
- leishmania — any parasitic flagellate protozoan of the genus Leishmania, occurring in vertebrates in an oval or spherical, nonflagellate form, and in invertebrates in an elongated, flagellated form.
- leisurable — freedom from the demands of work or duty: She looked forward to retirement and a life of leisure.
- leisurably — in a leisurable manner
- 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.
- leontiasis — a lionlike facial distortion.