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11-letter words containing s, t, a, e, l, i

  • lapidescent — in the process of changing into stone
  • laser light — light which is generated by a laser
  • laser sight — a device on a firearm that uses a laser to pinpoint impact.
  • last minute — the time just preceding a deadline or when some decisive action must be taken.
  • last-minute — the time just preceding a deadline or when some decisive action must be taken.
  • lastingness — The property of lasting; duration, permanence.
  • lateen sail — a triangular sail set on a long sloping yard, used especially on the Mediterranean Sea.
  • lateralised — Simple past tense and past participle of lateralise.
  • lateritious — of the color of brick; brick-red.
  • latiseptate — having broad partitions or septa
  • law society — association of lawyers
  • lawn tennis — tennis, especially when played on a grass court.
  • leaf insect — any of several orthopterous insects of the family Phillidae, of southern Asia and the East Indies, having a body that resembles a leaf in color and form.
  • leatherfish — a filefish.
  • lecithinase — An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of lecithin.
  • legatissimo — to be performed as smoothly and connectedly as possible
  • legislating — Present participle of legislate.
  • legislation — the act of making or enacting laws.
  • legislative — having the function of making laws: a legislative body.
  • legislators — Plural form of legislator.
  • legislatrix — a woman who is a member of a legislature.
  • legislature — a deliberative body of persons, usually elective, who are empowered to make, change, or repeal the laws of a country or state; the branch of government having the power to make laws, as distinguished from the executive and judicial branches of government.
  • legitimates — according to law; lawful: the property's legitimate owner.
  • leptospiral — relating to, caused by, or characteristic of leptospires
  • lex scripta — written law; statute law.
  • liabilities — liabilities. moneys owed; debts or pecuniary obligations (opposed to assets). Accounting. liabilities as detailed on a balance sheet, especially in relation to assets and capital.
  • liberalists — the quality or state of being liberal, as in behavior or attitude.
  • licentiates — Plural form of licentiate.
  • lieutenants — Plural form of lieutenant.
  • life estate — property that may be held only for the extent of the holder's lifetime
  • lifecasting — The creation of a three-dimensional copy of a living body by means of molding and casting techniques.
  • ligamentous — pertaining to, of the nature of, or forming a ligament.
  • lightplanes — Plural form of lightplane.
  • like a shot — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
  • line starve — (MIT, opposite of line feed) 1. To feed paper through a printer the wrong way by one line (most printers can't do this). On a display terminal, to move the cursor up to the previous line of the screen. "To print "X squared", you just output "X", line starve, "2", line feed." (The line starve causes the "2" to appear on the line above the "X", and the line feed gets back to the original line.) 2. A character (or character sequence) that causes a terminal to perform this action. ASCII 26, also called SUB or control-Z, was one common line-starve character in the days before microcomputers and the X3.64 terminal standard. Unlike "line feed", "line starve" is *not* standard ASCII terminology. Even among hackers it is considered silly. 3. (Proposed) A sequence such as \c (used in System V echo, as well as nroff and troff) that suppresses a newline or other character(s) that would normally be emitted.
  • linearities — Plural form of linearity.
  • linecasting — the casting of an entire line of type in a slug.
  • literalness — in accordance with, involving, or being the primary or strict meaning of the word or words; not figurative or metaphorical: the literal meaning of a word.
  • literaryism — habitual use of literary forms
  • literatures — writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays.
  • littermates — Plural form of littermate.
  • little sark — one of the Channel Islands, in the English Channel E of Guernsey, connected to Sark by a natural causeway.
  • little slam — the winning of twelve of the thirteen tricks of a deal. Also called small slam. Compare grand slam (def 1).
  • liver salts — a preparation of mineral salts used to treat indigestion
  • lost pleiad — See under Pleiades (def 1).
  • lutheranism — of or relating to Luther, adhering to his doctrines, or belonging to one of the Protestant churches that bear his name.
  • magisterial — of, relating to, or befitting a master; authoritative; weighty; of importance or consequence: a magisterial pronouncement by the director of the board.
  • mailed fist — superior force, especially military force, when presented as a threat: The country showed its mailed fist in negotiations.
  • malignities — Plural form of malignity.
  • maltotriose — (carbohydrate) A maltooligosaccharide consisting of three glucose units.
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