11-letter words containing s, t, a, e, l
- sempiternal — everlasting; eternal.
- senate bill — a proposed new law introduced for debate before the upper chamber of the legislature in, for example, the US, Canada, Australia, etc
- sensational — producing or designed to produce a startling effect, strong reaction, intense interest, etc., especially by exaggerated, superficial, or lurid elements: a sensational novel.
- sentimental — expressive of or appealing to sentiment, especially the tender emotions and feelings, as love, pity, or nostalgia: a sentimental song.
- septavalent — having a valence of seven; heptavalent.
- septemviral — of or relating to septemvirs or a septemvirate.
- septifragal — (of a capsule) dehiscing by breaking away from the partitions but remaining attached to the common axis; dehiscing at the valves or backs of the carpels but leaving the septa intact.
- septivalent — having a valence of seven; heptavalent.
- serial port — A serial port on a computer is a place where you can connect the computer to a device such as a modem or a mouse.
- serratulate — having small serrations; mildly serrate
- serrulation — serrulate condition or form.
- sertularian — a type of hydroid that forms stiff, feathery colonies in which the cups holding the zooids are sessile.
- servantless — without servants; not having a servant or servants
- servitorial — of or pertaining to a servitor
- sesquialter — in the ratio of 3:2
- sgml tagger — (tool) A tool to assist with adding SGML to a piece of text. The Tagger only lets the user insert a mark-up tag which is correct in that particular context.
- shade cloth — a covering made of cloth or plastic, especially one used to control the amount of sunlight to which plants are exposed.
- shaft alley — an enclosure on a ship for housing a propeller shaft and a walk for oilers.
- sheet glass — glass in sheet form produced by drawing or by the cylinder glass process.
- sheet metal — metal in sheets or thin plates.
- shelftalker — a promotional sign used by a retailer to draw attention to a featured product on the shelf
- shell steak — a cut of steak from the short loin
- sheriffalty — shrievalty.
- shinplaster — a plaster for the shin or leg.
- silk thread — thread that is manufactured from silk
- silk-tassel — any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Garrya, of the western U.S., having evergreen foliage and flowers in pendulous catkins.
- sillimanite — a mineral, aluminum silicate, Al 2 SiO 5 , occurring in the form of long, slender, and often fibrous crystals.
- silver star — a bronze star with a small silver star at the center, awarded to a soldier who has been cited in orders for gallantry in action, when the citation does not warrant the award of a Medal of Honor or the Distinguished Service Cross.
- silver thaw — glaze (def 17).
- silvestrian — of or relating to woodland
- single malt — a type of whisky that is made at a single distillery and from one type of malted grain
- 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-malt — (of whiskey, especially Scotch) made from unblended malt whiskey distilled at one distillery.
- singletrack — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
- singulative — a grammatical form or construction that expresses a singular entity or indicates that an individual is singled out from a group, especially as opposed to a collective noun, as snowflake as opposed to snow.
- sir stanley — Arthur Penrhyn [pen-rin] /ˈpɛn rɪn/ (Show IPA), (Dean Stanley) 1815–81, English clergyman and author.
- skatemobile — a scooterlike vehicle built of boxes, boards, or the like, and mounted on skate wheels.
- skeptically — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
- slack water — a period when a body of water is between tides.
- slag cement — a cement composed of about 80 percent granulated slag and about 20 percent hydrated lime.
- slant rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
- slate black — a slightly purplish black.
- slaughtered — the killing or butchering of cattle, sheep, etc., especially for food.
- slave coast — the coast of W equatorial Africa, between the Benin and Volta rivers: a center of slavery traffic 16th–19th centuries.
- slave state — any state, nation, etc., where slavery is legal or officially condoned.
- slave trade — the business or process of procuring, transporting, and selling slaves, especially black Africans to the New World prior to the mid-19th century.
- slot aerial — a transmitting aerial in which the radiating elements are open slots in a surrounding metal sheet
- small white — a small white butterfly, Artogeia rapae, with scanty black markings, the larvae of which feed on brassica leaves
- smart aleck — an obnoxiously conceited person.
- smell a rat — any of several long-tailed rodents of the family Muridae, of the genus Rattus and related genera, distinguished from the mouse by being larger.