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11-letter words containing t, o, r, s, i

  • lobsterlike — Resembling a lobster or some aspect of one.
  • locorestive — having a tendency to rest in one place
  • locust bird — any of various pratincoles, esp Glareola nordmanni (black-winged pratincole), that feed on locusts
  • 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.
  • lotusscript — (language)   A Visual BASIC-like scripting language for Lotus Notes and Lotus SmartSuite. LotusScript is object-oriented and can be used for complex Notes programming, although Java is also available.
  • lower sixth — the first year of the sixth form
  • lyosorption — the adsorption of a liquid on a solid surface, esp of a solvent on suspended particles
  • machinators — Plural form of machinator.
  • macrosmatic — Having a good sense of smell.
  • malapropist — a person who regularly makes malapropisms
  • maltotriose — (carbohydrate) A maltooligosaccharide consisting of three glucose units.
  • mandatories — authoritatively ordered; obligatory; compulsory: It is mandatory that all students take two years of math.
  • maraboutism — Support for marabouts (Muslim holy men or mystics).
  • mariologist — a student of Mariology.
  • marionettes — Plural form of marionette.
  • mars violet — a dark grayish-purple color.
  • masticatory — of, relating to, or used in or for mastication.
  • mastroianni — Marcello, 1924–96, Italian actor.
  • matronising — to cause to become matronly; cause to act as, or fulfill the role of, matron.
  • matronymics — Plural form of matronymic.
  • mayoralties — Plural form of mayoralty.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • mesothorium — one of two radioactive decay products of thorium, an isotope of radium or actinium.
  • mesotrophic — (of freshwater lakes) containing medium levels of nutrients
  • metachrosis — the ability of some animals, such as chameleons, to change their colour
  • metaphorist — a creator or user of metaphors
  • meteoritics — the science that deals with meteors.
  • metrologies — Plural form of metrology.
  • metrologist — the science of weights and measures.
  • micro saint — (simulation)   A general purpose simulation tool from US company Micro Analysis and Design.
  • microbursts — Plural form of microburst.
  • microlights — Plural form of microlight.
  • micrometers — Plural form of micrometer.
  • microphytes — Plural form of microphyte.
  • microskirts — Plural form of microskirt.
  • microsmatic — (of humans and certain animals) having a poor sense of smell
  • microstress — a stress in the microstructure of a metal, as one caused by the distortion of space lattices.
  • microswitch — a highly sensitive switch used in automatic-control devices.
  • microsystem — A microscopic system, especially a system using microscopic electromechanical components.
  • ministrokes — Plural form of ministroke.
  • minoritised — Simple past tense and past participle of minoritise.
  • mirror site — (networking)   An archive site or website which keeps a copy of some or all files at another site so as to make them more quickly available and to reduce the load on the source site. It is generally best to use the mirror that is physically closest to you as this will usually give the fastest download. Such mirroring is usually done for specific whole directories or files on a specific remote server as opposed to a cache or proxy server which keeps copies of everything that is requested via it. For example, src.doc.ic.ac.uk is the main UK mirror for the GNU archive at gnu.org.
  • misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
  • misanthropy — hatred, dislike, or distrust of humankind.
  • misconstrue — to misunderstand the meaning of; take in a wrong sense; misinterpret.
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