11-letter words containing s, t, a, e, l
- leptospiral — relating to, caused by, or characteristic of leptospires
- lethal dose — the amount of a drug or other agent that if administered to an animal or human will prove fatal
- letterheads — Plural form of letterhead.
- letterspace — to space out (the letters of a word or line) for balance or emphasis.
- leucoplasts — Plural form of leucoplast.
- 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
- loathedness — the state or condition of being an object of disgust and dislike
- loathsomely — In a way that is loathsome.
- lobsterback — redcoat.
- locust bean — carob.
- logan stone — rocking stone.
- loose metal — shingle on a road
- lost pleiad — See under Pleiades (def 1).
- lotus-eater — Classical Mythology. a member of a people whom Odysseus found existing in a state of languorous forgetfulness induced by their eating of the fruit of the legendary lotus; one of the lotophagi.
- lutheranism — of or relating to Luther, adhering to his doctrines, or belonging to one of the Protestant churches that bear his name.
- lythraceous — belonging to the Lythraceae, the loosestrife family of plants.
- 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.
- maladjusted — badly or unsatisfactorily adjusted, especially in relationship to one's social circumstances, environment, etc.
- malcontents — Plural form of malcontent.
- malefactors — Plural form of malefactor.
- malignities — Plural form of malignity.
- maltese cat — a bluish-gray variety of the domestic cat.
- maltese dog — one of a breed of toy dogs having a long, straight, silky white coat.
- maltotriose — (carbohydrate) A maltooligosaccharide consisting of three glucose units.
- mandlestone — The amygdaloid.
- manipulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of manipulate.
- manstealing — the act of kidnapping.
- mantelshelf — mantel (def 2).
- manteltrees — Plural form of manteltree.
- mare's-tail — a long narrow cirrus cloud whose flowing appearance somewhat resembles a horse's tail.