11-letter words containing so
- isoxsuprine — a sympathomimetic vasodilator, C 18 H 23 NO 3 , used in certain types of peripheral vascular disease.
- jackson day — January 8, a holiday commemorating Andrew Jackson's victory at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815: a legal holiday in Louisiana.
- jettisoning — to cast (goods) overboard in order to lighten a vessel or aircraft or to improve its stability in an emergency.
- jimson weed — a coarse, rank-smelling weed, Datura stramonium, of the nightshade family, having oaklike, poisonous leaves and tubular white or lavender flowers.
- jimsonweeds — Plural form of jimsonweed.
- joao pessoa — a state in E Brazil. 21,760 sq. mi. (56,360 sq. km). Capital: João Pessoa.
- kalsomining — to wash or cover with calcimine.
- lacus solis — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars.
- last resort — desperate recourse
- law society — association of lawyers
- lesson plan — outline of teaching session
- life lesson — something from which useful knowledge or principles can be learned
- lightsomely — (archaic) In a lightsome manner.
- linesperson — (sports) A linesman or lineswoman.
- lissomeness — The quality of being lissome.
- living soul — person
- loathsomely — In a way that is loathsome.
- lollo rosso — a variety of lettuce originating in Italy, having curly red-tipped leaves and a slightly bitter taste
- lyosorption — the adsorption of a liquid on a solid surface, esp of a solvent on suspended particles
- lysogenesis — production of a lysogen.
- lyssophobia — a pathological fear of going insane.
- magnetosome — (biology) A membranous prokaryotic organelle, containing mineral crystals, present in magnetotactic bacteria.
- magnisonant — high-sounding.
- mailpersons — Plural form of mailperson.
- maisonettes — Plural form of maisonette.
- marksperson — A marksman or markswoman.
- masochistic — Psychiatry. having a condition in which sexual gratification depends on suffering, physical pain, and humiliation.
- masson disk — a white disk on which a series of concentric gray circles appear to vanish intermittently when the disk is rotated, used for testing a person's fluctuation of attention and visual threshold.
- mato grosso — a plateau in SW Brazil.
- may blossom — the blossom of the may tree or hawthorn
- melanosomes — Plural form of melanosome.
- mendelssohn — Felix [fee-liks;; German fey-liks] /ˈfi lɪks;; German ˈfeɪ lɪks/ (Show IPA), (Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy) 1809–47, German composer.
- mesoamerica — Anthropology, Archaeology. the area extending approximately from central Mexico to Honduras and Nicaragua in which diverse pre-Columbian civilizations flourished.
- mesobenthos — flora and fauna living at the bottom of seas 182 to 914 metres deep
- mesoblastic — (biology) of, relating to, or resembling the mesoblast.
- mesocardium — the double layer of splanchnic mesoderm supporting the embryonic heart.
- mesocranial — mesocephalic
- mesocyclone — a small cyclone that arises near a thunderstorm and is sometimes associated with the occurrence of tornadoes.
- mesodontism — the condition of having medium-sized teeth.
- mesognathic — having medium, slightly protruding jaws.
- mesolimnion — an unfrozen lake's thermocline
- mesomorphic — pertaining to or having a muscular or sturdy body build characterized by the relative prominence of structures developed from the embryonic mesoderm (contrasted with ectomorphic, endomorphic).
- mesonephric — one of the three embryonic excretory organs of vertebrates, becoming the functional kidney of fishes and amphibians and becoming part of the tubules or ductules in the reproductive systems of higher vertebrates.
- mesonephros — one of the three embryonic excretory organs of vertebrates, becoming the functional kidney of fishes and amphibians and becoming part of the tubules or ductules in the reproductive systems of higher vertebrates.
- mesopelagic — of, relating to, or living in the ocean at a depth of between 600 feet (180 meters) and 3000 feet (900 meters).
- mesophilous — (of bacteria) growing best at moderate temperatures, between 25°C and 40°C.
- mesophyllic — (botany) Of or pertaining to the mesophyll of a leaf.
- mesopotamia — an ancient region in W Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers: now part of Iraq.
- mesospheric — Of or pertaining to the mesosphere.
- mesothelial — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the mesothelium.