11-letter words containing s, t, e, r, i
- 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.
- liver salts — a preparation of mineral salts used to treat indigestion
- liver spots — a form of chloasma in which irregularly shaped light-brown spots occur on the skin.
- lobsterlike — Resembling a lobster or some aspect of one.
- locorestive — having a tendency to rest in one place
- loosestrife — any of various plants belonging to the genus Lysimachia, of the primrose family, having clusters of usually yellow flowers, as L. vulgaris (garden loosestrife) or L. quadrifolia (whorled loosestrife)
- lost tribes — the members of the ten tribes of ancient Israel who were taken into captivity in 722 b.c. by Sargon II of Assyria and are believed never to have returned to Palestine. II Kings 17:1–23.
- lower sixth — the first year of the sixth form
- 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.
- magisterium — the authority and power of the church to teach religious truth.
- magistrates — Plural form of magistrate.
- maidservant — a female servant.
- main street — a novel (1920) by Sinclair Lewis.
- mains water — gas supplied to a building through pipes
- mainstreams — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mainstream.
- maintainers — Plural form of maintainer.
- maltotriose — (carbohydrate) A maltooligosaccharide consisting of three glucose units.
- mandataries — Plural form of mandatary.
- mandatories — authoritatively ordered; obligatory; compulsory: It is mandatory that all students take two years of math.
- manneristic — a habitual or characteristic manner, mode, or way of doing something; distinctive quality or style, as in behavior or speech: He has an annoying mannerism of tapping his fingers while he talks. They copied his literary mannerisms but always lacked his ebullience.
- mare's-tail — a long narrow cirrus cloud whose flowing appearance somewhat resembles a horse's tail.
- marguerites — Plural form of marguerite.
- marionettes — Plural form of marionette.
- marquisates — Plural form of marquisate.
- marquisette — a lightweight open fabric of leno weave in cotton, rayon, silk, or nylon.
- mars violet — a dark grayish-purple color.
- martensitic — Of or pertaining to the mineral martensite.
- martingales — Plural form of martingale.
- master disk — an original disk from which duplicates are made
- master file — Computers. a permanent file, periodically updated, that serves as an authoritative source of data.
- masterminds — Plural form of mastermind.
- masterpiece — a person's greatest piece of work, as in an art.
- mastic tree — a small Mediterranean anacardiaceous evergreen tree, Pistacia lentiscus, that yields the resin mastic
- materialise — to come into perceptible existence; appear; become actual or real; be realized or carried out: Our plans never materialized.
- materialism — preoccupation with or emphasis on material objects, comforts, and considerations, with a disinterest in or rejection of spiritual, intellectual, or cultural values.
- materialist — a person who is markedly more concerned with material things than with spiritual, intellectual, or cultural values.
- maternalism — of, pertaining to, having the qualities of, or befitting a mother: maternal instincts.
- mayoralties — Plural form of mayoralty.
- mechitarist — a member of an order of Armenian monks founded in Constantinople in the 18th century and following the rule of St. Benedict.
- mekhitarist — a member of an order of Armenian monks founded in Constantinople in the 18th century and following the rule of St. Benedict.
- melioristic — the doctrine that the world tends to become better or may be made better by human effort.
- memorialist — a person who writes memorials.
- mensuration — the branch of geometry that deals with the measurement of length, area, or volume.
- mensurative — adapted for or concerned with measuring.
- meritorious — deserving praise, reward, esteem, etc.; praiseworthy: to receive a gift for meritorious service.
- meroblastic — (of certain eggs) undergoing partial cleavage, resulting in unequal blastomeres.
- mesenteries — Plural form of mesentery.
- mesothorium — one of two radioactive decay products of thorium, an isotope of radium or actinium.