11-letter words starting with sl
- slack water — a period when a body of water is between tides.
- slack-baked — improperly baked.
- slack-jawed — having the mouth open, especially as an indication of astonishment, bewilderment, etc.
- slacken off — If something slackens off, it becomes slower, less active, or less intense.
- slacklining — the activity of walking across a narrow line of synthetic webbing hung slackly above the ground
- slacktivism — actions taken to bring about political or social change but requiring only minimal commitment, effort, or risk: students engaging in slacktivism by signing an online petition.
- slag cement — a cement composed of about 80 percent granulated slag and about 20 percent hydrated lime.
- slaked lime — another name for calcium hydroxide, esp when made by adding water to calcium oxide
- 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.
- slate black — a slightly purplish black.
- slaughtered — the killing or butchering of cattle, sheep, etc., especially for food.
- slave coast — the coast of W equatorial Africa, between the Benin and Volta rivers: a center of slavery traffic 16th–19th centuries.
- slave labor — persons, especially a large group, performing labor under duress or threats, as prisoners in a concentration camp; a labor force of slaves or slavelike prisoners.
- slave river — a river in NE Alberta and the Northwest Territories, in Canada: flowing from Lake Athabasca NW to Great Slave Lake. 258 miles (415 km) long.
- slave state — any state, nation, etc., where slavery is legal or officially condoned.
- slave trade — the business or process of procuring, transporting, and selling slaves, especially black Africans to the New World prior to the mid-19th century.
- slaveholder — an owner of slaves.
- slaveringly — in a slavering manner
- slavishness — of or befitting a slave: slavish subjection.
- sleep apnea — a temporary suspension of breathing, occurring in some newborns (infant apnea) and in some adults during sleep (sleep apnea)
- sleep on it — contemplate sth overnight
- sleep rough — to spend the night in the open; be without a home or without shelter
- sleep shade — an opaque, masklike covering for the eyes, usually fitted with an elasticized cord that passes around the head, worn to aid sleep by shutting out light.
- sleep tight — Sleep well
- sleepwalker — the act or state of walking, eating, or performing other motor acts while asleep, of which one is unaware upon awakening; somnambulism.
- sleeve link — cuff link.
- sleeve note — The sleeve notes are short pieces of writing on the covers of records, which tell you something about the music or the musicians.
- sleeveboard — a small-scale ironing board for pressing sleeves, especially a narrow board that fits inside a coat sleeve.
- sleigh bell — any of several kinds of small bells, as a jingle bell, attached to a sleigh or to the harness of the animal drawing the sleigh.
- sleigh ride — trip on a sledge
- slenderness — having a circumference that is small in proportion to the height or length: a slender post.
- sleuthhound — a bloodhound.
- slickenside — a rock surface that has become more or less polished and striated by slippage along a fault plane.
- slide valve — a valve that slides without lifting to open or close an aperture, as the valves of the ports in the cylinders of certain steam engines.
- sliding fit — a fit that enables one part to be inserted into another by sliding or pushing, rather than by hammering
- slightingly — derogatory and disparaging; belittling.
- slime mould — any of various simple spore-producing organisms typically found as slimy masses on rotting vegetation, where they engulf food particles by amoeboid movements. Formerly regarded as fungi, they are now classified as protoctists of the phyla Myxomycota (true, or cellular slime moulds) or Acrasiomycota (plasmodial slime moulds)
- slimnastics — exercises to help someone lose or control weight.
- sling chair — any of several varieties of chairs having a seat and back formed from a single sheet of canvas, leather, or the like, hanging loosely in a frame.
- slip stitch — a sewing stitch for securing hems, etc, in which only two or three threads of the material are caught up by the needle each time, so that the stitches are nearly invisible from the right side
- slip-stitch — a loose stitch taken between two layers of fabric, as on a facing or hem, so as to be invisible on the right side or outside surface, used in stoating.
- slipperette — a disposable slipper, often of paper, as for wear during a long airplane or train trip.
- 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.
- slit pocket — a pocket on the underside of a garment, reached through a vertical opening
- slit trench — a narrow trench for one or more persons for protection against enemy fire and fragmentation bombs.
- slog it out — If two or more people slog it out, they work very hard to try to be the one who is successful or who has their ideas and wishes accepted.
- slop around — to spill or splash (liquid).
- slop bucket — slop pail.
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