10-letter words containing s, e, l, c
- lockshield — (attributive) A kind of radiator valve used to balance the system by restricting the flow of water on the return side.
- logopedics — the study and treatment of speech defects.
- long since — for a long time now
- lose caste — to lose social status or position
- lose color — to become pale
- lose count — to fail to keep an accurate record of items, events, etc
- lose touch — not keep in contact
- lose track — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- lost cause — a cause that has been defeated or whose defeat is inevitable.
- loucheness — The quality of being louche, shifty or disreputable.
- love scene — a play or film scene in which characters make love
- lovestruck — Alternative spelling of love-struck.
- lower case — an often small or portable container for enclosing something, as for carrying or safekeeping; receptacle: a jewel case.
- lower-case — an often small or portable container for enclosing something, as for carrying or safekeeping; receptacle: a jewel case.
- lowercased — Printed or written in lowercase letters.
- lubricates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lubricate.
- luciferase — (enzyme) Any one of a group of enzymes that produce bioluminescence by oxidizing luciferin.
- luciferous — bringing or providing light.
- lucklessly — In a luckless way.
- luftmensch — a person unconcerned with the practicalities of earning a living
- luminesced — Simple past tense and past participle of luminesce.
- luminesces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of luminesce.
- lumpsucker — A globular fish of cooler northern waters, typically having a ventral sucker and spiny fins; a lumpfish.
- lunarscape — the landscape of the moon.
- lunchboxes — Plural form of lunchbox.
- lysimetric — of or relating to the measurement of solubility
- mach scale — a scale that measures how much deceit and manipulation one will approve or condone in order to achieve some end.
- macro lens — a lens used to bring into focus objects very close to the camera.
- macrolides — Plural form of macrolide.
- macroscale — A relatively large scale.
- majestical — characterized by or possessing majesty; of lofty dignity or imposing aspect; stately; grand: the majestic Alps.
- majusculae — Capital letters, as found in manuscripts of the sixth century and earlier.
- majuscules — Plural form of majuscule.
- malachites — Plural form of malachite.
- mallemucks — Plural form of mallemuck.
- malvaceous — belonging to the Malvaceae, the mallow family of plants.
- marlaceous — Resembling marl.
- mccandless — a town in SW Pennsylvania.
- mcreynolds — James Clark, 1862–1946, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1914–41.
- medicalise — to handle or accept as deserving of or appropriate for medical treatment.
- medicinals — Plural form of medicinal.
- megacycles — Plural form of megacycle.
- melaleucas — Plural form of melaleuca.
- melanistic — Ethnology. the condition in human beings of having a high amount of melanin granules in the skin, hair, and eyes.
- melchiades — Saint, died a.d. 314, pope 310–314.
- meliaceous — belonging to the Meliaceae, the mahogany family of plants.
- melismatic — an ornamental phrase of several notes sung to one syllable of text, as in plainsong or blues singing.
- mercurials — Plural form of mercurial.
- mesmerical — Alternative form of mesmeric.
- mesolectal — any variety of language in a creole continuum that is intermediate between the basilect and the acrolect.