10-letter words containing s, i, t, e, l
- monostelic — having an individual or sole stele or cylindrical part in the middle of the stem or root of a plant that contains tubular-like vessels
- moralities — Plural form of morality.
- mortalised — Simple past tense and past participle of mortalise.
- motionless — without motion: a motionless statue.
- motiveless — something that causes a person to act in a certain way, do a certain thing, etc.; incentive.
- mousetails — Plural form of mousetail.
- multi-user — (operating system) A term describing an operating system or application program that can be used by several people concurrently; opposite of single-user. Unix is an example of a multi-user operating system, whereas most (but not all) versions of Microsoft Windows are intended to support only one user at a time. A multi-user system, by definition, supports concurrent processing of multiple tasks (once known as "time-sharing") or true parallel processing if it has multiple CPUs. While batch processing systems often ran jobs for serveral users concurrently, the term "multi-user" typically implies interactive access. Before Ethernet networks were commonplace, multi-user systems were accessed from a terminal (e.g. a vt100) connected via a serial line (typically RS-232). This arrangement was eventually superseded by networked personal computers, perhaps sharing files on a file server. With the wide-spread availability of Internet connections, the idea of sharing centralised resources is becoming trendy again with cloud computing and managed applications, though this time it is the overhead of administering the system that is being shared rather than the cost of the hardware. In gaming, both on PCs and games consoles, the equivalent term is multi-player, though the first multi-player games (e.g. ADVENT) were on multi-user computers.
- multiphase — having many phases, stages, aspects, or the like.
- multiplies — Plural form of multiply.
- multisense — having more than one meaning.
- multisided — Having multiple sides.
- multispeed — Capable of operating at multiple speeds.
- multistage — (of a rocket or guided missile) having more than one stage.
- multistate — of or operating in several states of a nation: a multistate corporation.
- multitudes — Plural form of multitude.
- multiverse — (in physics and cosmology) a hypothetical collection of identical or diverse universes, including our own.
- mutualised — Simple past tense and past participle of mutualise.
- nationless — a large body of people, associated with a particular territory, that is sufficiently conscious of its unity to seek or to possess a government peculiarly its own: The president spoke to the nation about the new tax.
- naturalise — Alternative spelling of naturalize.
- nebulosity — nebulous or nebular matter.
- neoplastic — the theory and practice of the de Stijl school, chiefly characterized by an emphasis on the formal structure of a work of art, and restriction of spatial or linear relations to vertical and horizontal movements as well as restriction of the artist's palette to black, white, and the primary colors.
- neorealist — Of or pertaining to the post World War II international relations movement of neorealism.
- nettlefish — jellyfish.
- neutralise — to make neutral; cause to undergo neutralization.
- neutralism — the policy or advocacy of maintaining strict neutrality in foreign affairs.
- neutralist — a person who advocates or adheres to a policy of strict neutrality in foreign affairs.
- nobilities — Plural form of nobility.
- nonelastic — capable of returning to its original length, shape, etc., after being stretched, deformed, compressed, or expanded: an elastic waistband; elastic fiber.
- nonhostile — Not hostile; free of hostility.
- nonsterile — free from living germs or microorganisms; aseptic: sterile surgical instruments.
- novelistic — of, relating to, or characteristic of novels.
- nummulites — Plural form of nummulite.
- obliterans — Producing obstruction due to inflammation and fibrosis.
- obsoleting — no longer in general use; fallen into disuse: an obsolete expression.
- obsoletism — A disused word or phrase; an archaism.
- oenologist — Alternative spelling of enologist.
- oestradiol — Alternative spelling of estradiol.
- ontologies — Plural form of ontology.
- ontologise — Alt form ontologize.
- oppositely — situated, placed, or lying face to face with something else or each other, or in corresponding positions with relation to an intervening line, space, or thing: opposite ends of a room.
- oscillated — Simple past tense and past participle of oscillate.
- oscillates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of oscillate.
- ostensible — outwardly appearing as such; professed; pretended: an ostensible cheerfulness concealing sadness.
- ostensibly — outwardly appearing as such; professed; pretended: an ostensible cheerfulness concealing sadness.
- osteolysis — The pathological destruction or disappearance of bone tissue.
- oubliettes — Plural form of oubliette.
- outselling — Present participle of outsell.
- palestrina — Giovanni Pierluigi da [jaw-vahn-nee pyer-loo-ee-jee dah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni ˌpyɛr luˈi dʒi dɑ/ (Show IPA), 1526?–94, Italian composer.
- palimpsest — a parchment or the like from which writing has been partially or completely erased to make room for another text.
- paltriness — ridiculously or insultingly small: a paltry sum.