10-letter words containing t, e, l, o, s
- stereology — a branch of science dealing with the determination of the three-dimensional structure of objects based on two-dimensional views of them.
- stilettoed — wearing stiletto heels
- stillhouse — a distillery or place where the distilling process takes place
- stoke-hold — Also, stokehold [stohk-hohld] /ˈstoʊkˌhoʊld/ (Show IPA). fireroom.
- stolenwise — in a stealthy or secretive manner
- stolidness — not easily stirred or moved mentally; unemotional; impassive.
- stone cold — completely cold
- stone lily — a fossil crinoid.
- stone-cold — If something that should be warm is stone-cold, it is very cold.
- stone-lily — a fossil crinoid.
- storm belt — an area of the earth's surface in which storms are frequent
- storm cell — an air mass formed by powerful updrafts and downdrafts moving in convective loops, the smallest unit of a storm system.
- story line — plot (def 2).
- storyville — a red-light district of New Orleans known as a wellspring of jazz before World War I.
- stove bolt — a small bolt, similar to a machine screw but with a coarser thread.
- stove coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 1 5/8 to 2 7/16 (about 4 to 6 cm), intermediate between egg coal and chestnut coal.
- streamflow — the water that flows in a specific stream site, especially its volume and rate of flow.
- strike oil — any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
- strobilate — to undergo strobilation
- strobiline — of or relating to a strobilus
- strophiole — a small growth on some plants' seeds
- stylometry — the study of the style of something such as a written text so as to determine the author
- stylophone — a type of battery-powered electronic instrument played with a steel-tipped penlike stylus
- suaveolent — fragrant or sweet-smelling
- suboctuple — in the proportion or ratio of one to eight
- sulphonate — a salt or ester of any sulphonic acid containing the ion RSO2O– or the group RSO2O–, R being an organic group
- suppletion — the use in inflection or derivation of an allomorph that is not related in form to the primary allomorph of a morpheme, as the use of better as the comparative of good.
- suppletory — supplying a deficiency.
- sweet roll — a roll made of sweet dough, often containing spices, raisins, nuts, candied fruit, etc., and sometimes iced on top.
- sword belt — a military belt from which a sword may be hung.
- tablespoon — a spoon larger than a teaspoon or a dessert spoon, used in serving food at the table and as a standard measuring unit in recipes.
- tanglesome — tangled
- teleboides — Taphiae.
- telecourse — a course of study presented on television, as for local home viewers receiving credit at a community college.
- telegnosis — supernatural or occult knowledge; clairvoyance.
- teleostean — a fish of the order Teleostei
- teleostome — any fish of the division Teleostomi, including all bony fish except for the chondrichthyans
- teleport's — a regional telecommunications network that provides access to communications satellites and other long distance media; telecommunications hub.
- telescopic — of, relating to, or of the nature of a telescope.
- television — the transmission of programming, in the form of still or moving images, via radio waves, cable wires, satellite, or wireless network to a receiver or other screen.
- teliospore — a spore of certain rust fungi, which carries the fungus through the winter and which, on germination, produces the promycelium.
- telomerase — an enzyme, active chiefly in tumors and reproductive cells, that causes telomeres to lengthen: facilitates cell division and may account for the immortality of cancer cells.
- telsontail — any of several minute, wingless, primitive insects of the order Protura, having a cone-shaped head with sucking and piercing mouthparts and no eyes or antennae, inhabiting damp soil or decaying organic matter.
- temerously — in a temerous manner
- tendrilous — a threadlike, leafless organ of climbing plants, often growing in spiral form, which attaches itself to or twines round some other body, so as to support the plant.
- tesla coil — an air-core transformer used to produce high voltages of high-frequency alternating currents.
- test pilot — a pilot employed to test-fly newly-built aircraft.
- tetrapolis — a conglomeration of four cities
- the solent — a strait of the English Channel between the coast of Hampshire, on the English mainland, and the Isle of Wight. Width: up to 6 km (4 miles)
- the-clouds — a comedy (423 b.c.) by Aristophanes.