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11-letter words containing s, a, t, i, l

  • litigatious — (rare) litigious.
  • 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.
  • little slam — the winning of twelve of the thirteen tricks of a deal. Also called small slam. Compare grand slam (def 1).
  • liver salts — a preparation of mineral salts used to treat indigestion
  • logistician — a person who is skilled in symbolic logic.
  • logomachist — One who starts fights about the meaning of words.
  • londonistan — an informal name for London, as considered by some people as a base for radical Islamists
  • longlasting — Alternative form of long-lasting.
  • lost pleiad — See under Pleiades (def 1).
  • lucio costa — Lúcio [loo-syoo] /ˈlu syu/ (Show IPA), 1902–98, Brazilian architect, chief designer of Brasilia.
  • lutheranism — of or relating to Luther, adhering to his doctrines, or belonging to one of the Protestant churches that bear his name.
  • lutosławski — Witold (ˈvitɔlt). 1913–94, Polish composer, whose works frequently juxtapose aleatoric and notated writing
  • madrigalist — a composer or singer of madrigals.
  • magisterial — of, relating to, or befitting a master; authoritative; weighty; of importance or consequence: a magisterial pronouncement by the director of the board.
  • magistrally — In a magistral manner; authoritatively; dogmatically.
  • mailed fist — superior force, especially military force, when presented as a threat: The country showed its mailed fist in negotiations.
  • maintopsail — a topsail set on the mainmast.
  • malapropist — a person who regularly makes malapropisms
  • malignities — Plural form of malignity.
  • malposition — faulty or wrong position, especially of a part or organ of the body or of a fetus in the uterus.
  • malt whisky — whisky, as Scotch, made entirely from malted barley.
  • maltotriose — (carbohydrate) A maltooligosaccharide consisting of three glucose units.
  • mammalogist — the science dealing with mammals.
  • mandolinist — One who plays the mandolin.
  • manipulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of manipulate.
  • manstealing — the act of kidnapping.
  • mare's-tail — a long narrow cirrus cloud whose flowing appearance somewhat resembles a horse's tail.
  • marginalist — somene who adheres to the theory of marginalism
  • mariologist — a student of Mariology.
  • mars violet — a dark grayish-purple color.
  • martingales — Plural form of martingale.
  • masculation — Making masculine; giving male characteristics.
  • masculinist — Characterized by or denoting attitudes or values held to be typical of men.
  • masculinity — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
  • master file — Computers. a permanent file, periodically updated, that serves as an authoritative source of data.
  • 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.
  • maximalists — Plural form of maximalist.
  • mayoralties — Plural form of mayoralty.
  • mediastinal — a median septum or partition between two parts of an organ, or paired cavities of the body.
  • medievalist — an expert in medieval history, literature, philosophy, etc.
  • memorialist — a person who writes memorials.
  • mentalising — Present participle of mentalise.
  • mentalistic — the doctrine that objects of knowledge have no existence except in the mind of the perceiver.
  • mentalities — Plural form of mentality.
  • meroblastic — (of certain eggs) undergoing partial cleavage, resulting in unequal blastomeres.
  • mesoblastic — (biology) of, relating to, or resembling the mesoblast.
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