10-letter words containing s, t, e, l
- lay sister — a woman who has taken religious vows and habit but is employed in her order chiefly in manual labor.
- lazarettos — Plural form of lazaretto.
- le creusot — a city in E central France.
- lead sheet — a copy of a song containing the melody line, sometimes along with the lyrics and the notations indicating the harmonic structure.
- lead story — the principal story in a newspaper
- leadplants — Plural form of leadplant.
- leaf sight — a folding rear sight on certain rifles
- leafstalks — Plural form of leafstalk.
- leathersex — The sexual practices associated with leathermen.
- lectorship — a lecturer in a college or university.
- left stage — the part of the stage that is left of center as one faces the audience.
- legal list — a list of investments that fiduciaries and certain institutions, such as banks and insurance companies, are legally authorized to make.
- legalistic — strict adherence, or the principle of strict adherence, to law or prescription, especially to the letter rather than the spirit.
- legalities — the state or quality of being in conformity with the law; lawfulness.
- legateship — The office or authority of a legate.
- legislated — Simple past tense and past participle of legislate.
- legislates — to exercise the function of legislation; make or enact laws.
- legislator — a person who gives or makes laws.
- legitimise — to make legitimate.
- legitimism — a supporter of legitimate authority, especially of a claim to a throne based on direct descent.
- legitimist — a supporter of legitimate authority, especially of a claim to a throne based on direct descent.
- leistering — Present participle of leister.
- leitmotifs — Plural form of leitmotif.
- lemniscate — a plane curve generated by the locus of the point at which a variable tangent to a rectangular hyperbola intersects a perpendicular from the center to the tangent. Equation: r 2 = 2 a 2 cosθ.
- lengthless — Without length.
- lengthsman — a lengthman
- lengthways — Lengthwise.
- lengthwise — In a direction parallel with a thing's length.
- lentigines — a freckle or other pigmented spot.
- lentissimo — very slow.
- lentivirus — any slow virus of the genus Lentivirus, of the retrovirus family, causing brain disease in sheep and other animals.
- leominster — a city in N Massachusetts.
- leontiasis — a lionlike facial distortion.
- leptosomic — a person of asthenic build.
- leptospira — any of several spirally shaped, aerobic bacteria of the genus Leptospira, certain species of which are pathogenic for human beings.
- leptospire — Any bacterium of the genus Leptospira.
- lethalness — of, relating to, or causing death; deadly; fatal: a lethal weapon; a lethal dose.
- lethargies — Plural form of lethargy.
- letterless — Without the presence or use of alphabetical letters.
- leucoblast — an immature leukocyte.
- leucocytes — Plural form of leucocyte.
- leucoplast — a colorless plastid in the cells of roots, storage organs, and underground stems, serving as a point around which starch forms.
- leukoblast — an immature leukocyte.
- leukocytes — white blood cell.
- leviathans — Plural form of leviathan.
- lewis bolt — an anchor bolt having a conical base around which concrete or lead is poured to hold it.
- liberalist — the quality or state of being liberal, as in behavior or attitude.
- liberators — a four-engined heavy bomber widely used over Europe and the Mediterranean by the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II. Symbol: B-24.
- libertines — Plural form of libertine.
- librettist — the writer of a libretto.