11-letter words starting with so
- soft tissue — the soft parts of the human body as distinct from bone and cartilage
- soft x-rays — a type of x-ray that has its wavelength between 20 and 200 angstroms
- soft-boiled — to boil (an egg) just long enough for the yolk and white to partially solidify, usually three or four minutes.
- soft-finned — having fins supported by articulated rays rather than by spines, as a malacopterygian.
- soft-footed — having or making light, quiet footsteps
- soft-headed — foolish; stupid.
- soft-soaper — a person who flatters or cajoles, especially for reasons of self-interest or personal advantage: a soft-soaper specializing in rich, elderly women.
- soft-spoken — (of persons) speaking with a soft or gentle voice; mild.
- softhearted — very sympathetic or responsive; generous in spirit: a soft-hearted judge.
- software ag — (company) A German software engineering company that started with the ADABAS database. Natural is their 4GL development environment, EntireX is their DCOM for Unix and IBM. BOLERO, is an object-oriented development environment and application server specially made for Electronic Business applications. Mailing-list: <[email protected]>.
- soho square — a formerly fashionable residential district of London, England.
- soil binder — a plant that prevents or inhibits erosion by providing a ground cover and forming a dense network of roots that hold the soil.
- soil boring — Soil boring is a technique used to survey soil by taking several shallow cores out of the sediment. It is used when a drilling jacket or jack-up rig is to be supported on the soil.
- sojournment — the state of sojourning
- solanaceous — belonging to the Solanaceae, the nightshade family of plants.
- solar cells — a photovoltaic cell that converts sunlight directly into electricity.
- solar cycle — the variation of sunspots, prominences, flares, and other solar activity through an 11-year cycle.
- solar flare — flare (def 22).
- solar house — a house designed to absorb and store solar heat.
- solar month — month (def 4).
- solar panel — a bank of solar cells.
- solar power — energy generated by the sun
- solar still — an apparatus that uses solar radiation to distill salt or brackish water to produce drinkable water.
- solar-month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- solar-storm — a temporary disturbance of the earth's magnetic field, induced by radiation and streams of charged particles from the sun.
- solarimeter — an instrument for measuring solar radiation.
- soldatesque — of or relating to a soldier
- soldier ant — a type of ant that has a disproportionately large head
- soldier fly — any of several flies of the family Stratiomyidae, characterized by brightly colored abdominal stripes.
- soldierfish — any of several squirrelfishes of the family Holocentridae.
- soldierlike — resembling a soldier
- soldiership — a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
- sole trader — feme-sole trader.
- sole-source — designating a company contracted, without competition, to be the sole supplier of a product or service, as a firm having an exclusive contract for certain military technology.
- solemn mass — High Mass.
- solemn vows — the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience when taken as a perpetual and more solemn commitment
- solenocytes — a type of long, narrow, flagellated cell that functions in excretion of nitrogenous wastes and occurs in a variety of organisms, including certain annelids and mollusks.
- solenoglyph — any poisonous snake of the viper family with hollow, paired, erectile fangs
- solicitudes — the state of being solicitous; anxiety or concern.
- solid angle — an angle formed by three or more planes intersecting in a common point or formed at the vertex of a cone.
- solid model — A solid model is a representation of a solid (= not liquid or gas) object produced by a computer and used in simulation.
- solid south — the states of the southern U.S. that traditionally supported the Democratic Party after the Civil War.
- solid-state — designating or pertaining to electronic devices, as transistors or crystals, that can control current without the use of moving parts, heated filaments, or vacuum gaps.
- solidarnosc — a Polish organization of independent trade unions founded in 1980: outlawed by the government of Poland in 1982.
- soliloquise — to utter a soliloquy; talk to oneself.
- soliloquist — to utter a soliloquy; talk to oneself.
- soliloquize — to utter a soliloquy; talk to oneself.
- solipsistic — of or characterized by solipsism, or the theory that only the self exists, or can be proved to exist: Her treatment philosophy dealt with madness as a complete, self-contained, solipsistic world that sane people are not able to enter.
- solmization — the act, process, or system of using certain syllables, especially the sol-fa syllables, to represent the tones of the scale.
- solo mother — a mother with a dependent child or dependent children and no spouse