10-letter words containing t, e, l, o, s
- lonesomest — Superlative form of lonesome.
- longitudes — Plural form of longitude.
- longlisted — Simple past tense and past participle of longlist.
- longstreet — James, 1821–1904, Confederate general in the U.S. Civil War.
- loom-state — (of a woven cotton fabric) not yet dyed
- loose smut — a disease of cereal grasses caused by smut fungi of the genus Ustilago, in which powdery spore masses replace the host tissue
- loremaster — (chiefly, fantasy) A wise person with knowledge of history, genealogy and ancient poetry and possibly magic as well.
- lorgnettes — Plural form of lorgnette.
- los teques — a city in N Venezuela, SW of Caracas.
- lose caste — to lose social status or position
- lose count — to fail to keep an accurate record of items, events, etc
- lose heart — to become despondent or disillusioned (over something)
- lose touch — not keep in contact
- lose track — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- lost cause — a cause that has been defeated or whose defeat is inevitable.
- lost river — a river that flows into an underground passage or sinkhole.
- louseworts — Plural form of lousewort.
- love feast — (among the early Christians) a meal eaten in token of brotherly love and charity; agape.
- love story — story about a romantic relationship
- lovestruck — Alternative spelling of love-struck.
- lower mast — the lowermost spar of a compound mast, stepped in the hull of a vessel and carrying a topmast and any other upper spars.
- lumisterol — a steroid compound produced when ergosterol is exposed to ultraviolet radiation. Formula: C28H44O
- luteolysis — The structural and functional degradation of the corpus luteum, occurring at the end of the luteal phase of both the estrous and menstrual cycles in the absence of pregnancy.
- maelstroms — Plural form of maelstrom.
- melezitose — (organic compound) A non-reducing trisaccharide sugar produced by many insects that consume plant sap.
- melitriose — raffinose.
- mesoblasts — Plural form of mesoblast.
- mesolectal — any variety of language in a creole continuum that is intermediate between the basilect and the acrolect.
- mesolithic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a transitional period of the Stone Age intermediate between the Paleolithic and the Neolithic periods, characterized by adaptation to a hunting, collecting, and fishing economy based on the use of forest, lakeside, and seashore environments; Epipaleolithic.
- mesothelia — Plural form of mesothelium.
- metabolise — Alternative spelling of metabolize.
- metabolism — Biology, Physiology. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Compare anabolism, catabolism.
- metalloids — Plural form of metalloid.
- metalworks — Plural form of metalwork.
- meticulous — taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough: a meticulous craftsman; meticulous personal appearance.
- metropolis — any large, busy city.
- metrostyle — a device that controls the speed of a player piano
- mettlesome — spirited; courageous.
- middelskot — (in South Africa) an intermediate payment to a farmers' cooperative for a crop or wool clip
- middlemost — midmost.
- milestones — Plural form of milestone.
- millstones — Plural form of millstone.
- mislocated — to misplace.
- mistflower — a North American composite plant, Eupatorium coelestinum, having heads of blue flowers.
- mistletoes — Plural form of mistletoe.
- modalities — the quality or state of being modal.
- molalities — Plural form of molality.
- molarities — Plural form of molarity.
- molestache — (slang, rare) A type of mustache supposedly associated with child molesters.
- mollescent — softening or tending to soften.