11-letter words containing s, p, l, e, n, t
- septavalent — having a valence of seven; heptavalent.
- septivalent — having a valence of seven; heptavalent.
- serpentlike — resembling a serpent
- shinplaster — a plaster for the shin or leg.
- silverpoint — a technique of drawing with a silver stylus on specially prepared paper.
- single tape — a ribbon of material, usually with a plastic base, coated on one side (single tape) or both sides (double tape) with a substance containing iron oxide, to make it sensitive to impulses from an electromagnet: used to record sound, images, data, etc.
- single-step — to perform a single instruction on (a program), generally under the control of a debug program
- sleep on it — contemplate sth overnight
- snake plant — a widely grown houseplant, Sansevieria trifasciata, having stiffly erect, mottled, lance-shaped leaves.
- soft pencil — a type of pencil that contains a thicker, oilier and darker form of graphite
- speculating — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
- spinsterial — relating to a spinster
- spleenstone — a stone which was supposed to cure maladies of the spleen
- splenectomy — excision or removal of the spleen.
- splint bone — one of the rudimentary, splintlike metacarpal or metatarsal bones of the horse or some allied animal, one on each side of the back of each cannon bone.
- splintering — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
- stalin peak — former name of Communism Peak.
- stanley cup — a trophy emblematic since 1926 of the championship of the National Hockey League, composed of Canadian and U.S. professional teams.
- steppenwolf — a novel (1927) by Hermann Hesse.
- stepsibling — a stepbrother or stepsister.
- stone plant — living stones.
- strandloper — a member of an extinct tribe of Khoikhoi or Bushmen who lived on seafood gathered on the beaches of southern Africa
- superaltern — a universal proposition that is the basis for the immediate inference of a corresponding particular proposition.
- teaspoonful — the amount a teaspoon can hold.
- technopolis — a society with a concentration of technology-based businesses or an emphasis on technology
- telephonist — a telephone switchboard operator.
- telescoping — an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly; the other form (reflecting telescope) has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed. Compare radio telescope.
- ten's place — ten (def 6).
- terpeneless — (originally) any of a class of monocyclic hydrocarbons of the formula C 10 H 16 , obtained from plants.
- townspeople — residents of a town
- transalpine — situated beyond the Alps, especially toward the north as viewed from Italy.
- tripersonal — consisting of or existing in three persons, as the Godhead.
- typicalness — of the nature of or serving as a type or representative specimen.
- unipetalous — having only one petal.
- unplastered — (of a room, wall, etc) not covered with plaster
- unstoppable — that cannot be stopped or surpassed; unbeatable: an unstoppable ball team.
- vespertinal — of, relating to, or occurring in the evening: vespertine stillness.
- wentletraps — Plural form of wentletrap.
- westphalian — a former province in NW Germany, now a part of North Rhine-Westphalia: treaty ending the Thirty Years' War 1648.
- wrest plank — the part of a piano in which the wrest pin is embedded
- xenoplastic — involving distantly related individuals