10-letter words containing t, o, s, l
- lose touch — not keep in contact
- lose track — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- loss ratio — the ratio of the losses paid or accrued by an insurer to premiums earned, usually for a period of one year.
- lost cause — a cause that has been defeated or whose defeat is inevitable.
- lost river — a river that flows into an underground passage or sinkhole.
- lotus land — the land of the lotus-eaters, or any fabulous, dreamlike setting
- loudmouths — Plural form of loudmouth.
- louseworts — Plural form of lousewort.
- lousy with — infested with lice.
- lovastatin — a drug, C 24 H 36 O 8 , that reduces the levels of fats in the blood by altering the enzyme activity in the liver that produces lipids.
- love feast — (among the early Christians) a meal eaten in token of brotherly love and charity; agape.
- love story — story about a romantic relationship
- lovestruck — Alternative spelling of love-struck.
- lower mast — the lowermost spar of a compound mast, stepped in the hull of a vessel and carrying a topmast and any other upper spars.
- luminosity — luminance (def 2).
- lumisterol — a steroid compound produced when ergosterol is exposed to ultraviolet radiation. Formula: C28H44O
- lustration — to purify by a propitiatory offering or other ceremonial method.
- lustrously — In a lustrous manner, glossily.
- luteolysis — The structural and functional degradation of the corpus luteum, occurring at the end of the luteal phase of both the estrous and menstrual cycles in the absence of pregnancy.
- maelstroms — Plural form of maelstrom.
- mast cloth — a partial lining sewed to the back of a square sail to prevent chafing from contact with the mast.
- matchlocks — Plural form of matchlock.
- melezitose — (organic compound) A non-reducing trisaccharide sugar produced by many insects that consume plant sap.
- melitriose — raffinose.
- mesoblasts — Plural form of mesoblast.
- mesolectal — any variety of language in a creole continuum that is intermediate between the basilect and the acrolect.
- mesolithic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a transitional period of the Stone Age intermediate between the Paleolithic and the Neolithic periods, characterized by adaptation to a hunting, collecting, and fishing economy based on the use of forest, lakeside, and seashore environments; Epipaleolithic.
- mesothelia — Plural form of mesothelium.
- metabolise — Alternative spelling of metabolize.
- metabolism — Biology, Physiology. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Compare anabolism, catabolism.
- metalloids — Plural form of metalloid.
- metalworks — Plural form of metalwork.
- meticulous — taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough: a meticulous craftsman; meticulous personal appearance.
- metropolis — any large, busy city.
- metrostyle — a device that controls the speed of a player piano
- mettlesome — spirited; courageous.
- microliths — Plural form of microlith.
- microvolts — Plural form of microvolt.
- middelskot — (in South Africa) an intermediate payment to a farmers' cooperative for a crop or wool clip
- middlemost — midmost.
- milestones — Plural form of milestone.
- milk stout — a rich mellow stout lacking a bitter aftertaste
- milk-toast — easily dominated; extremely mild; ineffectual; namby-pamby; wishy-washy.
- millionths — Plural form of millionth.
- millivolts — Plural form of millivolt.
- millstones — Plural form of millstone.
- miscatalog — to enter in a catalogue incorrectly
- mislocated — to misplace.
- misologist — distrust or hatred of reason or reasoning.
- mistflower — a North American composite plant, Eupatorium coelestinum, having heads of blue flowers.