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11-letter words that end in ne

  • shared line — a telephone number that is assigned to more than one person, for example in an office. When somebody calls the number, all of the phones will ring until somebody picks up their phone to answer the call
  • shroud-line — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
  • silver vine — a vine, Actinidia polygama, of eastern Asia, having fragrant, white flowers and yellow, edible fruit and, in the male plant, leaves with silvery-white markings.
  • simethicone — an active ingredient in many antacid preparations that causes small mucus-entrapped air bubbles in the intestines to coalesce into larger bubbles that are more easily passed.
  • smart phone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
  • snitch line — a direct telephone or other communications link set up to allow people to report neighbours, colleagues, etc suspected of wrongdoing
  • soviet zone — that part of Germany occupied by Soviet forces in 1945–49: transformed into the German Democratic Republic in 1949–50
  • sphingosine — a basic unsaturated amino alcohol, C 1 8 H 3 3 (OH) 2 NH 2 , produced by the hydrolysis of sphingomyelin or gangliosides.
  • spleenstone — a stone which was supposed to cure maladies of the spleen
  • splint bone — one of the rudimentary, splintlike metacarpal or metatarsal bones of the horse or some allied animal, one on each side of the back of each cannon bone.
  • spring line — warp (def 16).
  • spruce pine — a tall coniferous tree, Pinus glabra, of the southeastern U.S., having smooth, gray bark and needles in bundles of two.
  • squall line — a line or extended narrow region within which squalls or thunderstorms occur, often several hundred miles long.
  • ss van dine — Charles, born 1935, U.S. poet.
  • st.-etienne — a river in France, flowing NW and W into the Atlantic: the longest river in France. 625 miles (1005 km) long.
  • stand-alone — self-contained and able to operate without other hardware or software.
  • static line — a line attached to a parachute pack and to a cable in an aircraft for the purpose of automatically opening the parachute after it is dropped.
  • steak diane — a steak served in a rich sauce
  • stearoptene — the oxygenated solid part of an essential oil (opposed to eleoptene).
  • stenohaline — (of an aquatic organism) unable to withstand wide variation in salinity of the surrounding water.
  • stink stone — any of various limestones that emit an unpleasant odor when scratched or struck.
  • stone-scone — a village in central Scotland: site of coronation of Scottish kings until 1651.
  • strand line — a shoreline, especially one from which the sea or a lake has receded.
  • strike zone — the area above home plate extending from the batter's knees to his or her shoulders.
  • string line — string (def 17b).
  • superrefine — to refine to an advanced degree
  • supply line — A supply line is a route along which goods and equipment are transported to an army during a war.
  • switch cane — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
  • tamburlaine — Tamerlane.
  • tank engine — locomotive train
  • tariff line — an item listed in a country's tariff schedule
  • tautochrone — a curve upon which a moving object will reach a certain point at the same time through gravity from whichever point it starts
  • terbutaline — a selective beta-adrenergic receptor agonist substance, C 12 H 19 NO 3 , used in the treatment of asthma.
  • the argonne — a wooded region of NE France: scene of major battles in both World Wars
  • the commune — the revolutionary government of Paris from 1792 to 1794
  • the miocene — this epoch or rock series
  • the neogene — the Neogene period or system
  • the old one — a jocular name for Satan
  • the trizone — the area of Germany from 1945-49, later to become West Germany, comprising three zones occupied by Britain, USA and France respectively
  • theobromine — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous powder, C 7 H 8 N 4 O 2 , an isomer of theophylline and lower homologue of caffeine, occurring in tea and obtained from the cacao bean: used chiefly as a diuretic, myocardial stimulant, and vasodilator.
  • thermocline — a layer of water in an ocean or certain lakes, where the temperature gradient is greater than that of the warmer layer above and the colder layer below.
  • thermophone — an electroacoustic transducer that forms sound waves by the expansion and contraction of the air adjacent to a conductor that varies in temperature according to the magnitude of the current passing through it; formerly used to calibrate microphones.
  • thiothixene — a potent antipsychotic, C 23 H 29 N 3 O 2 S 2 , used in the management of schizophrenia and related psychoses.
  • thirty-nine — a cardinal number, 30 plus 9.
  • thromboxane — a compound, C 20 H 32 O 5 , formed in blood platelets, that constricts blood vessels and promotes clotting.
  • tichorrhine — an extinct woolly rhinoceros with a bony nasal septum
  • to the bone — Anatomy, Zoology. one of the structures composing the skeleton of a vertebrate. the hard connective tissue forming the substance of the skeleton of most vertebrates, composed of a collagen-rich organic matrix impregnated with calcium, phosphate, and other minerals.
  • torrey pine — a rare pine tree, Pinus torreyana, having a rounded crown of branches, growing in a limited area on the southern coast of California.
  • torrid zone — the part of the earth's surface between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.
  • tower crane — a rotatable cantilever jib on top of a steelwork tower used on building sites where the operator needs to command a good view of the site
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