10-letter words containing s, e, t, n
- kineticism — the quality or state of being kinetic.
- kineticist — someone who studies kinetics
- kinetosome — a structure in some flagellate protozoans which forms the base of the flagellum, consisting of a circular arrangement of microtubules
- kisspeptin — a protein molecule that is responsible for triggering the onset of puberty in humans
- kitschness — the quality of being kitsch
- klendusity — (in plants) the ability to resist disease
- kline test — a test for syphilis in which the formation of a microscopic precipitate in a mixture of the patient's serum and an antigen indicates a syphilitic condition.
- klutziness — clumsy; awkward: If you weren't so klutzy you wouldn't have dropped it.
- knife rest — something upon which to rest a knife when it is not being used.
- knightless — not suitable or seemly for a knight
- knottiness — having knots; full of knots: a knotty piece of wood.
- lac insect — a scale insect, Laccifer lacca, of southeast Asia, the female of which secretes lac, a substance used in the preparation of shellac, wax, etc.
- lactescent — becoming or being milky.
- lacustrine — of or relating to a lake.
- lakefronts — Plural form of lakefront.
- lance rest — a support for a couched lance, fixed to the breastplate of a suit of armor.
- lancetfish — any large, marine fish of the genus Alepisaurus, having daggerlike teeth.
- landaulets — Plural form of landaulet.
- langoustes — Plural form of langouste.
- lanosterol — a sterol, C 30 H 50 O, formed from squalene epoxide, that is a precursor in the biosynthesis of cholesterol and is a component of lanolin.
- lansquenet — landsknecht.
- lanternist — someone who operates a magic lantern
- latenesses — occurring, coming, or being after the usual or proper time: late frosts; a late spring.
- latescence — the state or quality of being latescent
- launceston — a city on N Tasmania.
- laurentius — Saint, Lawrence, Saint.
- lavishment — The act of lavishing.
- leadplants — Plural form of leadplant.
- leistering — Present participle of leister.
- 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.
- lengthless — Without length.
- lengthsman — a lengthman
- lengthways — Lengthwise.
- lengthwise — In a direction parallel with a thing's length.
- lentigines — a freckle or other pigmented spot.
- lentissimo — very slow.
- lentivirus — any slow virus of the genus Lentivirus, of the retrovirus family, causing brain disease in sheep and other animals.
- leominster — a city in N Massachusetts.
- leontiasis — a lionlike facial distortion.
- lethalness — of, relating to, or causing death; deadly; fatal: a lethal weapon; a lethal dose.
- leviathans — Plural form of leviathan.
- libertines — Plural form of libertine.
- licentious — sexually unrestrained; lascivious; libertine; lewd.
- lich stone — a large stone on which to rest a coffin momentarily at the entrance to a cemetery.
- like stink — intensely; furiously
- limestones — Plural form of limestone.
- line storm — equinoctial storm.
- lineaments — Plural form of lineament.
- linecaster — the casting of an entire line of type in a slug.
- linguister — an interpreter