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11-letter words containing s, e, t, l

  • leukotomies — Plural form of leukotomy.
  • lex scripta — written law; statute law.
  • liabilities — liabilities. moneys owed; debts or pecuniary obligations (opposed to assets). Accounting. liabilities as detailed on a balance sheet, especially in relation to assets and capital.
  • liberalists — the quality or state of being liberal, as in behavior or attitude.
  • libertinism — libertine practices or habits of life; disregard of authority or convention in sexual or religious matters.
  • librettists — Plural form of librettist.
  • licentiates — Plural form of licentiate.
  • lickspittle — a contemptible, fawning person; a servile flatterer or toady.
  • lieutenants — Plural form of lieutenant.
  • life estate — property that may be held only for the extent of the holder's lifetime
  • lifecasting — The creation of a three-dimensional copy of a living body by means of molding and casting techniques.
  • ligamentous — pertaining to, of the nature of, or forming a ligament.
  • light horse — cavalry carrying light arms and equipment.
  • light verse — verse that is written to entertain, amuse, or please, often by the subtlety of its form rather than by its literary quality.
  • lighthouses — Plural form of lighthouse.
  • lightplanes — Plural form of lightplane.
  • lightsomely — (archaic) In a lightsome manner.
  • lightvessel — A ship equipped with a very large lamp, the ship can be positioned to warn off other ships from dangerous locations. A sort of portable lighthouse.
  • lignotubers — Plural form of lignotuber.
  • like a shot — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
  • liltingness — The property or characteristic of being lilting.
  • limitedness — confined within limits; restricted or circumscribed: a limited space; limited resources.
  • limitlessly — In an limitless way.
  • lindenhurst — a village on central Long Island, in SE New York.
  • 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.
  • linecasting — the casting of an entire line of type in a slug.
  • liner notes — Usually, liner notes. explanatory or interpretative notes about an audio album, as a record, CD, etc., printed on the cover or case or otherwise provided.
  • linked list — (programming)   A data structure in which each element contains a pointer to the next element, thus forming a linear list. A doubly linked list contains pointers to both the next and previous elements.
  • listen here — You say listen here when you are going to say something important to someone, especially when you are angry at what they have done or said.
  • lister-plow — Also called lister plow, middlebreaker, middlebuster. a plow with a double moldboard, used to prepare the ground for planting by producing furrows and ridges.
  • listeriosis — a disease of wild and domestic mammals, birds, and occasionally of humans, caused by a bacterium, Listeria monocytogenes, and characterized by lack of control of movement, paralysis, fever, and monocytosis.
  • 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.
  • lithogenous — of or relating to organisms, as coral, that secrete stony deposits.
  • lithophytes — Plural form of lithophyte.
  • lithosphere — the solid portion of the earth (distinguished from atmosphere, hydrosphere).
  • lithotomies — Plural form of lithotomy.
  • litmus test — Chemistry. the use of litmus paper or solution to test the acidity or alkalinity of a solution.
  • 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).
  • littlenecks — Plural form of littleneck.
  • liver salts — a preparation of mineral salts used to treat indigestion
  • liver spots — a form of chloasma in which irregularly shaped light-brown spots occur on the skin.
  • livingstone — David, 1813–73, Scottish missionary and explorer in Africa.
  • loathedness — the state or condition of being an object of disgust and dislike
  • loathsomely — In a way that is loathsome.
  • lobectomies — Plural form of lobectomy.
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