11-letter words containing t, o, r, s, l
- lobster pot — a trap for catching lobsters, typically a box made of wooden slats with a funnellike entrance to the bait.
- lobsterback — redcoat.
- 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.
- lotus sutra — a central scripture of Mahayana Buddhism, emphasizing that anyone can attain enlightenment
- lotus-eater — Classical Mythology. a member of a people whom Odysseus found existing in a state of languorous forgetfulness induced by their eating of the fruit of the legendary lotus; one of the lotophagi.
- 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
- lucy stoner — a person who advocates the retention of the maiden name by married women. Compare Stone (def 5).
- lyosorption — the adsorption of a liquid on a solid surface, esp of a solvent on suspended particles
- lythraceous — belonging to the Lythraceae, the loosestrife family of plants.
- malapropist — a person who regularly makes malapropisms
- malefactors — Plural form of malefactor.
- maltotriose — (carbohydrate) A maltooligosaccharide consisting of three glucose units.
- mariologist — a student of Mariology.
- mars violet — a dark grayish-purple color.
- 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.
- meroblastic — (of certain eggs) undergoing partial cleavage, resulting in unequal blastomeres.
- metrologies — Plural form of metrology.
- metrologist — the science of weights and measures.
- metrosexual — a heterosexual, usually urban male who pays much attention to his personal appearance and cultivates an upscale lifestyle.
- microlights — Plural form of microlight.
- misoprostol — A drug used for various purposes including the prevention of drug-induced gastric ulcers and the inducement of abortions, having the chemical formula C22H38O5.
- misrelation — an erroneous or imperfect relation
- mitropoulos — Dimitri [dih-mee-tree;; Greek th ee-mee-tree] /dɪˈmi tri;; Greek ðiˈmi tri/ (Show IPA), 1897–1960, Greek symphony orchestra conductor in the U.S.
- monocrystal — A single crystal.
- monolatrism — Belief in multiple deities but worship of only one.
- monstrously — frightful or hideous, especially in appearance; extremely ugly.
- mortadellas — Plural form of mortadella.
- mortalities — Plural form of mortalitie.
- mossbluiter — the bittern
- most-caller — (of fruit, fish, vegetables, etc.) fresh; recently picked or caught.
- most-livery — liverish.
- motherlands — Plural form of motherland.
- motorcycles — Plural form of motorcycle.
- motorsailer — A boat equipped with both sails and an engine.
- multicourse — a direction or route taken or to be taken.
- multiparous — of or relating to a multipara.
- multiperson — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
- multisource — Employing multiple sources.
- multistorey — Alternative spelling of multi-storey.
- mustard oil — oil expressed from the seed of mustard, used chiefly in making soap.
- muster roll — to assemble (troops, a ship's crew, etc.), as for battle, display, inspection, orders, or discharge.
- nanocrystal — A crystalline entity whose size is measured in nanometers; an individual nanometer-sized crystal of such a material.
- nasofrontal — of or relating to the nasal and frontal bones