10-letter words containing t, e, s, l, a
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- lengthsman — a lengthman
- lengthways — Lengthwise.
- leontiasis — a lionlike facial distortion.
- leptospira — any of several spirally shaped, aerobic bacteria of the genus Leptospira, certain species of which are pathogenic for human beings.