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