11-letter words containing s, e, r, o, a
- last resort — desperate recourse
- lateritious — of the color of brick; brick-red.
- lay to rest — the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep: a good night's rest.
- lazar house — (formerly) a hospital for persons with infectious diseases, esp leprosy
- leafhoppers — Plural form of leafhopper.
- leaseholder — a tenant under a lease.
- least-worst — bad but better than any available alternative
- legionaries — Plural form of legionary.
- legislators — Plural form of legislator.
- lemon grass — any of several lemon-scented grasses of the genus Cymbopogon, especially C. citratus, of tropical regions, yielding lemon-grass oil.
- lemon shark — a common shallow-water shark, Negaprion brevirostris, having a yellowish body and inhabiting inshore regions of the Atlantic from North Carolina to Brazil.
- leopardskin — the skin of a leopard
- lepromatous — the swollen lesion of leprosy.
- leprosarium — a hospital for the treatment of lepers.
- leptospiral — relating to, caused by, or characteristic of leptospires
- lobsterback — redcoat.
- lock washer — a washer placed under a nut on a bolt or screw, so made as to prevent the nut from shaking loose.
- loggerheads — a thick-headed or stupid person; blockhead.
- loss leader — a popular article that is sold at a very low price or at a loss for the purpose of attracting customers to a retail store. Compare leader (def 4).
- 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.
- loudhailers — Plural form of loudhailer.
- loudspeaker — any of various devices, usually electronic, by which speech, music, etc., can be intensified and made audible throughout a room, hall, or the like.
- lower apsis — See under apsis (def 1).
- lower class — classes lower in rank than middle class
- lower lakes — Lakes Erie and Ontario
- lower-class — of, relating to, or characteristic of the lower class: lower-class values.
- lythraceous — belonging to the Lythraceae, the loosestrife family of plants.
- macrophages — Plural form of macrophage.
- macrophytes — Plural form of macrophyte.
- macrospores — Plural form of macrospore.
- macrosystem — A programming system in which small constructs (macros) represent groups of machine instructions.
- mail orders — goods that have been ordered by mail order
- mailpersons — Plural form of mailperson.
- main course — Nautical. a square mainsail.
- major scale — a scale consisting of a series of whole steps except for half steps between the third and fourth and seventh and eighth degrees.
- make rounds — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- malefactors — Plural form of malefactor.
- mallow rose — a rose mallow of the genus Hibiscus.
- maltotriose — (carbohydrate) A maltooligosaccharide consisting of three glucose units.
- mammiferous — having mammae; mammalian.
- mandatories — authoritatively ordered; obligatory; compulsory: It is mandatory that all students take two years of math.
- manniferous — resulting in or producing manna
- manor house — the house of the lord of a manor.
- marchioness — marquise (defs 1, 2).
- marine snow — small particles of organic biogenic marine sediment, including the remains of organisms, faecal matter, and the shells of planktonic organisms, that slowly drift down to the sea floor
- marionettes — Plural form of marionette.
- marksperson — A marksman or markswoman.
- marrowbones — Plural form of marrowbone.
- mars violet — a dark grayish-purple color.
- mars yellow — a medium to deep orange-yellow color.