10-letter words containing s, t, e, l
- jacketless — Without a jacket (coat).
- jesuitical — of or relating to Jesuits or Jesuitism.
- jon postel — (person) (Jonathan Bruce Postel, 1943 - 1998-10-16) /p*-stel'/ One of the Internet's founding fathers. Jon's name is prominent on many of the fundamental standards on which the Internet is built, such as UDP. He ran IANA for as long as anybody could remember, in fact for most of the time he *was* IANA. He wrote STD 1, STD 2 and several dozen other RFCs. His friend Vinton Cerf noted his passing in RFC 2468.
- jostlement — Crowding; hustling.
- jugendstil — art nouveau as practiced in German-speaking countries.
- killstreak — (video games) An unbroken streak (continuous series) of kills.
- kiloliters — Plural form of kiloliter.
- kilolitres — Plural form of kilolitre.
- kilometers — a unit of length, the common measure of distances equal to 1000 meters, and equivalent to 3280.8 feet or 0.621 mile. Abbreviation: km.
- kilometres — Plural form of kilometre.
- klendusity — (in plants) the ability to resist disease
- kline test — a test for syphilis in which the formation of a microscopic precipitate in a mixture of the patient's serum and an antigen indicates a syphilitic condition.
- klutziness — clumsy; awkward: If you weren't so klutzy you wouldn't have dropped it.
- knightless — not suitable or seemly for a knight
- lac insect — a scale insect, Laccifer lacca, of southeast Asia, the female of which secretes lac, a substance used in the preparation of shellac, wax, etc.
- lackluster — lacking brilliance or radiance; dull: lackluster eyes.
- lacklustre — lacking brilliance or radiance; dull: lackluster eyes.
- lactescent — becoming or being milky.
- lactoscope — an optical device for determining the amount of cream in milk.
- lacustrine — of or relating to a lake.
- lagerkvist — Pär [par] /pær/ (Show IPA), 1891–1974, Swedish novelist, poet, and essayist: Nobel Prize 1951.
- lake poets — the English poets Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey, who lived in and drew inspiration from the Lake District at the beginning of the 19th century
- lakefronts — Plural form of lakefront.
- lamestream — noting or relating to traditional print and broadcast media, when regarded as lacking the fairness, creativity, etc., of independent online news sources.
- lammastide — the season of Lammas.
- lance rest — a support for a couched lance, fixed to the breastplate of a suit of armor.
- lancetfish — any large, marine fish of the genus Alepisaurus, having daggerlike teeth.
- landaulets — Plural form of landaulet.
- langoustes — Plural form of langouste.
- lanosterol — a sterol, C 30 H 50 O, formed from squalene epoxide, that is a precursor in the biosynthesis of cholesterol and is a component of lanolin.
- lansquenet — landsknecht.
- lanternist — someone who operates a magic lantern
- lapse rate — the rate of decrease of atmospheric temperature with increase of elevation vertically above a given location.
- lapstrakes — Plural form of lapstrake.
- laptev sea — an arm of the Arctic Ocean N of the Russian Federation in Asia, between Taimyr Peninsula and the New Siberian Islands.
- laser trap — a device in which atoms or particles are slowed by the use of lasers and then confined to a small region of space.
- last rites — anointing of the sick.
- last sleep — death
- late hours — rising and going to bed later than is usual
- late riser — somebody who tends to wake up and get out of bed at a later time than considered normal
- latecomers — Plural form of latecomer.
- latenesses — occurring, coming, or being after the usual or proper time: late frosts; a late spring.
- lateralise — Alt form lateralize.
- latescence — the state or quality of being latescent
- laticifers — Plural form of laticifer.
- lattermost — latest; last.
- launceston — a city on N Tasmania.
- laurentius — Saint, Lawrence, Saint.
- lavatories — Plural form of lavatory.
- lavishment — The act of lavishing.