11-letter words containing t, o, r, s, l
- silverpoint — a technique of drawing with a silver stylus on specially prepared paper.
- slant board — a tiltable board that allows a person to lie with the feet higher than the head while doing exercises.
- slant front — a flap of a desk, sloping upward and inward to close the desk, and opening forward and downward to a horizontal position as a writing surface: a form of fall front.
- slipperwort — any of several tropical American plants belonging to the genus Calceolaria, of the figwort family, having opposite or whorled leaves and slipper-shaped flowers.
- slot aerial — a transmitting aerial in which the radiating elements are open slots in a surrounding metal sheet
- slot racing — the activity of racing slot cars.
- soft solder — a solder fusible at temperatures below 700°F (370°C), generally an alloy of lead and tin.
- solar month — month (def 4).
- solar still — an apparatus that uses solar radiation to distill salt or brackish water to produce drinkable water.
- solar-month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- solar-storm — a temporary disturbance of the earth's magnetic field, induced by radiation and streams of charged particles from the sun.
- solarimeter — an instrument for measuring solar radiation.
- soldier ant — a type of ant that has a disproportionately large head
- sole trader — feme-sole trader.
- solo mother — a mother with a dependent child or dependent children and no spouse
- sorbability — the ability of something to absorb
- sorrel salt — potassium binoxalate.
- sorrel tree — a North American tree, Oxydendrum arboreum, of the heath family, having leaves with an acid flavor and drooping clusters of white flowers.
- soteriology — the doctrine of salvation through Jesus Christ.
- soul sister — a black female, especially a fellow black female.
- south tyrol — a former part of the Austrian state of Tyrol: ceded to Italy in 1919, becoming the Bolzano and Trento provinces of the Trentino-Alto Adige Autonomous Region. Area: 14 037 sq km (5420 sq miles)
- southlander — a person from the south
- southwardly — toward the south
- spectrology — the study of ghosts, phantoms, or apparitions.
- speculatory — a place suitable for observation
- spheroplast — a Gram-negative bacterial cell with a cell wall that has been altered or is partly missing, resulting in a spherical shape.
- sports hall — venue for physical activities
- sporulation — to produce spores.
- sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation
- st.-leonard — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada: suburb of Montreal.
- stable door — a door with an upper and lower leaf that may be opened separately
- stadtholder — stadholder.
- stakeholder — the holder of the stakes of a wager.
- stallholder — A stallholder is a person who sells goods at a stall in a market.
- stary oskol — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, SW of Voronezh.
- statutorily — of, relating to, or of the nature of a statute.
- steamroller — a heavy steam-powered vehicle having a roller for crushing, compacting, or leveling materials used for a road or the like.
- steelworker — a person employed in the process of manufacturing steel and steel products.
- stellarator — an experimental plasma-physics device in which magnetic fields confine the plasma within a tube shaped like a figure eight.
- stereoblind — lacking the ability to see in three dimensions through both eyes
- stereocilia — any of the long, flexible microvilli that superficially resemble cilia and occur as a brush border or series of tufts on the surface of various epithelial tissues.
- stilbestrol — a nonsteroidal synthetic estrogen, C 18 H 20 O 2 , used in medicine chiefly in the treatment of menopausal symptoms and in animal feeds for chemical caponization: formerly used during pregnancy for the prevention of miscarriage but discontinued owing to its association with an increased risk of vaginal and cervical cancers in women having had fetal exposure. Abbreviation: DES.
- stipuliform — shaped like a stipule.
- stock clerk — a worker in a stockroom who is in charge of the materials and goods stored there.
- stockholder — Also called stockowner. a holder or owner of stock in a corporation.
- stoneroller — an American minnow, Campostoma anomalum, named from its habit of moving stones as it feeds.
- stonewaller — to engage in stonewalling.
- stony coral — a true coral consisting of numerous anthozoan polyps embedded in the calcareous material that they secrete.
- stoop labor — the physical labor associated with the cultivation or picking of crops in farm fields, especially as performed by poorly paid, unskilled workers.
- storability — capable of being stored for considerable time without loss of freshness or usability.