10-letter words containing s, i, t, e, l
- kilometers — a unit of length, the common measure of distances equal to 1000 meters, and equivalent to 3280.8 feet or 0.621 mile. Abbreviation: km.
- kilometres — Plural form of kilometre.
- 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.
- knightless — not suitable or seemly for a knight
- 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.
- lacustrine — of or relating to a lake.
- lagerkvist — Pär [par] /pær/ (Show IPA), 1891–1974, Swedish novelist, poet, and essayist: Nobel Prize 1951.
- lammastide — the season of Lammas.
- lancetfish — any large, marine fish of the genus Alepisaurus, having daggerlike teeth.
- lanternist — someone who operates a magic lantern
- last rites — anointing of the sick.
- late riser — somebody who tends to wake up and get out of bed at a later time than considered normal
- lateralise — Alt form lateralize.
- laticifers — Plural form of laticifer.
- laurentius — Saint, Lawrence, Saint.
- lavatories — Plural form of lavatory.
- lavishment — The act of lavishing.
- lay sister — a woman who has taken religious vows and habit but is employed in her order chiefly in manual labor.
- leaf sight — a folding rear sight on certain rifles
- lectorship — a lecturer in a college or university.
- legal list — a list of investments that fiduciaries and certain institutions, such as banks and insurance companies, are legally authorized to make.
- legalistic — strict adherence, or the principle of strict adherence, to law or prescription, especially to the letter rather than the spirit.
- legalities — the state or quality of being in conformity with the law; lawfulness.
- legateship — The office or authority of a legate.
- legislated — Simple past tense and past participle of legislate.
- legislates — to exercise the function of legislation; make or enact laws.
- legislator — a person who gives or makes laws.
- legitimise — to make legitimate.
- legitimism — a supporter of legitimate authority, especially of a claim to a throne based on direct descent.
- legitimist — a supporter of legitimate authority, especially of a claim to a throne based on direct descent.
- leistering — Present participle of leister.
- leitmotifs — Plural form of leitmotif.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- lethargies — Plural form of lethargy.
- leviathans — Plural form of leviathan.
- lewis bolt — an anchor bolt having a conical base around which concrete or lead is poured to hold it.
- liberalist — the quality or state of being liberal, as in behavior or attitude.
- 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.
- libertines — Plural form of libertine.