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11-letter words containing s, o, l, t

  • sleeve note — The sleeve notes are short pieces of writing on the covers of records, which tell you something about the music or the musicians.
  • sleuthhound — a bloodhound.
  • slipperwort — any of several tropical American plants belonging to the genus Calceolaria, of the figwort family, having opposite or whorled leaves and slipper-shaped flowers.
  • slit pocket — a pocket on the underside of a garment, reached through a vertical opening
  • slog it out — If two or more people slog it out, they work very hard to try to be the one who is successful or who has their ideas and wishes accepted.
  • slop bucket — slop pail.
  • slot aerial — a transmitting aerial in which the radiating elements are open slots in a surrounding metal sheet
  • slot racing — the activity of racing slot cars.
  • slow motion — cinema: slower than in reality
  • slow-acting — working or acting slowly, not immediately
  • slow-footed — proceeding at a slow pace.
  • slow-motion — of, pertaining to or made in slow motion: a slow-motion replay.
  • slow-twitch — of or relating to muscle fiber that contracts relatively slowly and is resistant to fatigue (distinguished from fast-twitch).
  • slow-witted — mentally slow or dull; slow in comprehension and thinking.
  • slug it out — to strike heavily; hit hard, especially with the fist.
  • smooth-talk — to persuade by flattery, cajolery, coaxing, or the like: We smooth-talked the company into a huge donation.
  • sociability — the act or an instance of being sociable.
  • social unit — a person or a group of persons, as a family, functioning as a unit in society.
  • socialistic — of or relating to socialists or socialism.
  • sociologist — the science or study of the origin, development, organization, and functioning of human society; the science of the fundamental laws of social relations, institutions, etc.
  • sodomitical — anal or oral copulation with a member of the opposite sex.
  • soft launch — the launch of a website in stages, with regular updating
  • soft palate — Anatomy. the roof of the mouth, consisting of an anterior bony portion (hard palate) and a posterior muscular portion (soft palate) that separate the oral cavity from the nasal cavity.
  • soft pencil — a type of pencil that contains a thicker, oilier and darker form of graphite
  • soft skills — emotional intelligence
  • soft solder — a solder fusible at temperatures below 700°F (370°C), generally an alloy of lead and tin.
  • soft-boiled — to boil (an egg) just long enough for the yolk and white to partially solidify, usually three or four minutes.
  • solar month — month (def 4).
  • solar still — an apparatus that uses solar radiation to distill salt or brackish water to produce drinkable water.
  • solar-month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
  • solar-storm — a temporary disturbance of the earth's magnetic field, induced by radiation and streams of charged particles from the sun.
  • solarimeter — an instrument for measuring solar radiation.
  • soldatesque — of or relating to a soldier
  • soldier ant — a type of ant that has a disproportionately large head
  • sole trader — feme-sole trader.
  • solenocytes — a type of long, narrow, flagellated cell that functions in excretion of nitrogenous wastes and occurs in a variety of organisms, including certain annelids and mollusks.
  • solicitudes — the state of being solicitous; anxiety or concern.
  • solid south — the states of the southern U.S. that traditionally supported the Democratic Party after the Civil War.
  • solid-state — designating or pertaining to electronic devices, as transistors or crystals, that can control current without the use of moving parts, heated filaments, or vacuum gaps.
  • soliloquist — to utter a soliloquy; talk to oneself.
  • solipsistic — of or characterized by solipsism, or the theory that only the self exists, or can be proved to exist: Her treatment philosophy dealt with madness as a complete, self-contained, solipsistic world that sane people are not able to enter.
  • solmization — the act, process, or system of using certain syllables, especially the sol-fa syllables, to represent the tones of the scale.
  • solo mother — a mother with a dependent child or dependent children and no spouse
  • solutionist — a problem-solver
  • solvability — capable of being solved, as a problem.
  • solventless — able to pay all just debts.
  • somatically — of the body; bodily; physical.
  • somatoplasm — the cytoplasm of a somatic cell, especially as distinguished from germ plasm.
  • some little — rather extensive; fairly full
  • soothfastly — in a soothfast manner
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