13-letter words containing s, i, l, t, o, e
- township line — Surveying. one of two parallel lines running east and west that define the north and south borders of a township. Compare range line, township (def 2).
- triquetrously — from a triquetrous point of view
- tunnel vision — a drastically narrowed field of vision, as in looking through a tube, symptomatic of retinitis pigmentosa.
- turkish towel — a thick cotton towel with a long nap usually composed of uncut loops.
- two solitudes — a term for the situation of English and French Canada, considered as socially and culturally isolated from each other
- un-cloistered — secluded from the world; sheltered: a cloistered life.
- uncourtliness — the lack of courtliness
- undeleterious — injurious to health: deleterious gases.
- unmetabolised — not metabolised
- unobtrusively — not obtrusive; inconspicuous, unassertive, or reticent.
- unsensational — not sensational
- uprighteously — in an upright or moral manner
- ustilagineous — belonging to the Ustilaginales, an order of fungi that cause plant disease
- variable cost — a cost that varies with a change in the volume of output while remaining uniform on a per-unit basis, as cost of labor (distinguished from fixed cost).
- venereologist — the branch of medicine dealing with the study and treatment of venereal, or sexually transmitted, disease.
- ventriloquism — the art or practice of speaking, with little or no lip movement, in such a manner that the voice does not appear to come from the speaker but from another source, as from a wooden dummy.
- ventriloquist — a person who performs or is skilled in ventriloquism.
- ventriloquous — of or relating to ventriloquism or a ventriloquist
- vexillologist — the study of flags.
- violent storm — Meteorology. storm (def 3).
- violoncellist — cellist.
- virgo cluster — a cluster of about 2500 galaxies in the constellation Virgo, the nearest cluster to our galaxy.
- visual cortex — the portion of the cerebral cortex of the brain that receives and processes impulses from the optic nerves.
- voluntariness — done, made, brought about, undertaken, etc., of one's own accord or by free choice: a voluntary contribution.
- volute spring — a coil spring, conical in shape, extending in the direction of the axis of the coil.
- walter piston — Walter, 1894–1976, U.S. composer.
- water soldier — an aquatic plant, Stratiotes aloides, of Europe and NW Asia, having rosettes of large leaves and large three-petalled white flowers: family Hydrocharitaceae
- watercolorist — a pigment for which water and not oil is used as the vehicle.
- wellingtonias — Plural form of wellingtonia.
- west columbia — a town in central South Carolina.
- whistleblower — a person who informs on another or makes public disclosure of corruption or wrongdoing.
- white stilton — a rich white cheese made from whole milk, very strong in flavour
- wilcoxon test — a statistical test for the relative size of the scores of the same or matched subjects under two experimental conditions by comparing the distributions for positive and negative differences of the ranks of their absolute values
- winston-salem — a city in N North Carolina.
- with bells on — a hollow instrument of cast metal, typically cup-shaped with a flaring mouth, suspended from the vertex and rung by the strokes of a clapper, hammer, or the like.