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11-letter words containing t, o, n, l, e, s

  • sleep on it — contemplate sth overnight
  • sleeve note — The sleeve notes are short pieces of writing on the covers of records, which tell you something about the music or the musicians.
  • sleuthhound — a bloodhound.
  • soft pencil — a type of pencil that contains a thicker, oilier and darker form of graphite
  • soldier ant — a type of ant that has a disproportionately large head
  • solenocytes — a type of long, narrow, flagellated cell that functions in excretion of nitrogenous wastes and occurs in a variety of organisms, including certain annelids and mollusks.
  • solventless — able to pay all just debts.
  • southlander — a person from the south
  • speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
  • spleenstone — a stone which was supposed to cure maladies of the spleen
  • splenectomy — excision or removal of the spleen.
  • splint bone — one of the rudimentary, splintlike metacarpal or metatarsal bones of the horse or some allied animal, one on each side of the back of each cannon bone.
  • st.-emilion — a dry claret wine from the parish of St.-Émilion in the Bordeaux region of France.
  • st.-leonard — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada: suburb of Montreal.
  • stand-alone — self-contained and able to operate without other hardware or software.
  • stellionate — any crime of unspecified class that involves fraud, especially one that involves the selling of the same property to different people.
  • stenohaline — (of an aquatic organism) unable to withstand wide variation in salinity of the surrounding water.
  • steppenwolf — a novel (1927) by Hermann Hesse.
  • stereoblind — lacking the ability to see in three dimensions through both eyes
  • stone canal — (in certain echinoderms) a tube lined with calcareous deposits, connecting the madreporite with a circular canal around the mouth.
  • stone plant — living stones.
  • stone-blind — completely blind.
  • stoneroller — an American minnow, Campostoma anomalum, named from its habit of moving stones as it feeds.
  • stonewaller — to engage in stonewalling.
  • strandloper — a member of an extinct tribe of Khoikhoi or Bushmen who lived on seafood gathered on the beaches of southern Africa
  • strenuously — characterized by vigorous exertion, as action, efforts, life, etc.: a strenuous afternoon of hunting.
  • strong gale — a wind of 47–54 miles per hour (21–24 m/sec).
  • struggle on — If you struggle on, you continue doing something rather than stopping, even though it is difficult.
  • swell front — a horizontally convex front, as of a chest of drawers.
  • talent show — a theatrical show in which a series of usually amateur or aspiring singers, dancers, comedians, instrumentalists, etc., perform in the hope of gaining recognition.
  • teaspoonful — the amount a teaspoon can hold.
  • technopolis — a society with a concentration of technology-based businesses or an emphasis on technology
  • telephonist — a telephone switchboard operator.
  • telescoping — an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly; the other form (reflecting telescope) has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed. Compare radio telescope.
  • telesterion — (in ancient Greece) a building in which religious mysteries were celebrated.
  • tenaciously — holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold (often followed by of): a tenacious grip on my arm; tenacious of old habits.
  • tense logic — the study of the logical properties of tense operators, and of the logical relations between sentences having tense, by means of consideration of appropriate formal systems
  • tensionally — in a tensional manner
  • tensionless — the act of stretching or straining.
  • testimonial — a written declaration certifying to a person's character, conduct, or qualifications, or to the value, excellence, etc., of a thing; a letter or written statement of recommendation.
  • thistledown — the mature, silky pappus of a thistle.
  • thorvaldsen — Albert Bertal [ahl-bert bar-tuh l] /ˈɑl bɛrt ˈbær təl/ (Show IPA), 1770–1844, Danish sculptor.
  • tin soldier — a miniature toy soldier of cast metal, usually of lead.
  • tongue sole — tonguefish.
  • tongue-lash — to reprimand severely; scold
  • torrens law — any of various statutes that provide for the registration of the title to land with the government, which issues a warranted title deed (Torrens certificate) to said land
  • townspeople — residents of a town
  • translocate — to move or transfer from one place to another; cause to change location; displace; dislocate.
  • treasonable — of the nature of treason.
  • tripersonal — consisting of or existing in three persons, as the Godhead.
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