10-letter words containing s, i, l, o
- kohlrabies — Plural form of kohlrabi.
- kolinskies — Plural form of kolinsky.
- l'hospital — Guillaume François Antoine de [gee-yohm frahn-swa ahn-twan duh] /giˈyoʊm frɑ̃ˈswa ɑ̃ˈtwan də/ (Show IPA), 1661–1704, French mathematician.
- labionasal — articulated with the lips and given resonance in the nasal cavity, as m.
- labourious — Lb nonstandard Alternative form of from=UK.
- laccoliths — Plural form of laccolith.
- laconicism — laconic brevity.
- lactosuria — the presence of lactose in the urine
- lamingtons — Plural form of lamington.
- lampoonist — One who lampoons.
- langostino — langoustine.
- laniferous — wool-bearing: sheep and other laniferous animals.
- lanuginose — covered with lanugo, or soft, downy hairs.
- lanuginous — covered with lanugo, or soft, downy hairs.
- lascivious — inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd: a lascivious, girl-chasing old man.
- laudations — Plural form of laudation.
- lavatories — Plural form of lavatory.
- laviscious — (nonstandard) Lascivious.
- lectorship — a lecturer in a college or university.
- legislator — a person who gives or makes laws.
- leguminous — pertaining to, of the nature of, or bearing legumes.
- leiomyomas — Plural form of leiomyoma.
- leitmotifs — Plural form of leitmotif.
- lemon fish — the cobia.
- lemoniness — The state or quality of being lemony.
- lentissimo — very slow.
- leominster — a city in N Massachusetts.
- leontiasis — a lionlike facial distortion.
- leptosomic — a person of asthenic build.
- leptospira — any of several spirally shaped, aerobic bacteria of the genus Leptospira, certain species of which are pathogenic for human beings.
- leptospire — Any bacterium of the genus Leptospira.
- lewis bolt — an anchor bolt having a conical base around which concrete or lead is poured to hold it.
- liaisoning — Present participle of liaison.
- liberators — a four-engined heavy bomber widely used over Europe and the Mediterranean by the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II. Symbol: B-24.
- libidinous — full of sexual lust; lustful; lewd; lascivious.
- licentious — sexually unrestrained; lascivious; libertine; lewd.
- lich stone — a large stone on which to rest a coffin momentarily at the entrance to a cemetery.
- life story — an account of all the events that happened to someone during their life
- light show — a form of entertainment consisting chiefly of constantly changing patterns of light and color, usually accompanied by music and sound effects.
- lighthouse — a tower or other structure displaying or flashing a very bright light for the guidance of ships in avoiding dangerous areas, in following certain routes, etc.
- lights out — Chiefly Military. a signal, usually by drum or bugle, that all or certain camp or barracks lights are to be extinguished for the night.
- lights-out — Chiefly Military. a signal, usually by drum or bugle, that all or certain camp or barracks lights are to be extinguished for the night.
- liliaceous — of or like the lily.
- limestones — Plural form of limestone.
- limicolous — dwelling in mud or muddy regions.
- limivorous — of or relating to animals, usually worms or bivalves, that ingest earth or mud to extract the organic matter from it.
- limousines — Plural form of limousine.
- line noise — (communications) 1. Spurious characters due to electrical noise in a communications link, especially an EIA-232 serial connection. Line noise may be induced by poor connections, interference or crosstalk from other circuits, electrical storms, cosmic rays, or (notionally) birds crapping on the phone wires. 2. Any chunk of data in a file or elsewhere that looks like the results of electrical line noise. 3. Text that is theoretically a readable text or program source but employs syntax so bizarre that it looks like line noise. Yes, there are languages this ugly. The canonical example is TECO, whose input syntax is often said to be indistinguishable from line noise. Other non-WYSIWYG editors, such as Multics "qed" and Unix "ed", in the hands of a real hacker, also qualify easily, as do deliberately obfuscated languages such as INTERCAL.
- line score — a brief listing of the final score and major statistical totals of a game, esp. a baseball game
- line storm — equinoctial storm.