11-letter words containing lan
- planimetric — the measurement of plane areas.
- planisphere — a map of half or more of the celestial sphere with a device for indicating the part of a given location visible at a given time.
- plank floor — a floor made from sawed, straight-grained timber.
- plank-sheer — a plank or timber covering the upper ends of the frames of a wooden vessel
- planoconvex — pertaining to or noting a lens that is plane on one side and convex on the other.
- planogamete — a motile gamete.
- planography — the art or technique of printing from a flat surface directly or by offset.
- plant louse — aphid.
- plantagenet — a member of the royal house that ruled England from the accession of Henry II in 1154 to the death of Richard III in 1485.
- planthopper — any member of a large and varied group of homopterous insects that are related to the leafhoppers and the spittlebugs but rarely damage cultivated plants.
- plantigrade — walking on the whole sole of the foot, as humans, and bears.
- plantocracy — government by plantation owners.
- plantswoman — a nurserywoman.
- planuliform — resembling a planula
- point-blank — aimed or fired straight at the mark especially from close range; direct.
- postlanding — occurring after a landing (of an aircraft, shuttle, etc)
- power plant — a plant, including engines, dynamos, etc., and the building or buildings necessary for the generation of power, as electric or nuclear power.
- preen gland — uropygial gland.
- protoplanet — the collection of matter, in the process of condensation, from which a planet is formed.
- psilomelane — a common mineral consisting of a mixture of pyrolusite and other oxides of manganese, usually found in black, rounded masses: an ore of manganese.
- rat islands — a group of islands in SW Alaska, in the W Aleutian Islands.
- relandscape — to landscape again after a previous landscaping
- resemblance — the state or fact of resembling; similarity.
- robot plane — an unmanned plane
- rock island — a port in NW Illinois, on the Mississippi: government arsenal.
- ross island — an island in the W Ross Sea, off the coast of Victoria Land: part of the Ross Dependency; location of Mt. Erebus.
- sailplaning — the sport of flying sailplanes
- scent gland — any of various specialized skin glands, occurring in many kinds of animals, that emit an odor commonly functioning as a social or sexual signal or a defensive weapon.
- schollander — Donald ("Don") born 1946, U.S. swimmer.
- scintillant — scintillating; sparkling.
- sea islands — a chain of islands in the Atlantic off the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida
- sesquiplane — a biplane having one wing with not more than half the surface area of the other wing.
- shell gland — a gland in certain invertebrates that secretes the components required for forming the shell of an egg
- side glance — a look sideways at someone or something
- side-glance — a glance directed to the side; an oblique or sideways look: a side-glance of displeasure at her interrupter.
- 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.
- slant rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
- slumberland — an imaginary land described to children as the place they enter during sleep.
- snake plant — a widely grown houseplant, Sansevieria trifasciata, having stiffly erect, mottled, lance-shaped leaves.
- solanaceous — belonging to the Solanaceae, the nightshade family of plants.
- southlander — a person from the south
- spallanzani — Lazzaro [lahd-dzah-raw] /ˈlɑd dzɑ rɔ/ (Show IPA), 1729–99, Italian biologist.
- spud island — Prince Edward Island.
- stone plant — living stones.
- sublanguage — a subvariety of language used in a particular field or by a particular social group and characterized especially by distinctive vocabulary.
- sudetenland — a mountainous region in the N Czech Republic, including the Sudeten and the Erzgebirge: annexed by Germany 1938; returned to Czechoslovakia 1945.
- supplanting — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
- surveillant — exercising surveillance.
- sweat gland — one of the minute, coiled, tubular glands of the skin that secrete sweat.