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11-letter words containing a, c, e, s, p, o

  • phonetastic — (communications)   A CTI product from Callware. Phonetastic employs if-then rules and customer records to tell those receiving calls who is calling (based on ANI and DNIS) and to determine how the call should be routed, e.g. to a certain sales representative or to the general sales department; receive high-priority treatment; receive a fax-back, etc.
  • piperaceous — belonging to the Piperacae, the pepper family of plants.
  • plagioclase — any of the feldspar minerals varying in composition from acidic albite, NaAlSi 3 O 8 , to basic anorthite, CaAl 2 Si 2 O 8 , found in most igneous rocks: shows twinning striations on good cleavage surfaces.
  • polariscope — an instrument for measuring or exhibiting the polarization of light or for examining substances in polarized light, often to determine stress and strain in glass and other substances.
  • post chaise — a four-wheeled coach for rapid transportation of passengers and mail, used in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • postal code — British. postcode.
  • pousse-cafe — an after-dinner drink of liqueurs of various colors and specific gravities, carefully poured into a glass so as to remain floating in separate layers.
  • precautious — using or displaying precaution: a precautious reply; a precautious person.
  • precisional — the state or quality of being precise.
  • processable — capable of being processed.
  • procrustean — pertaining to or suggestive of Procrustes.
  • prosaicness — commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
  • prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
  • psychagogue — a necromancer
  • psychodelia — the production of, or the culture associated with, psychedelic experiences
  • punicaceous — of or relating to the family Punicaceae, containing the pomegranates
  • radarscopes — Plural form of radarscope.
  • saponaceous — resembling soap; soapy.
  • sapotaceous — belonging to the Sapotaceae, the sapodilla family of plants.
  • sapphic ode — Horatian ode.
  • scapigerous — having a scape or leafless stalk
  • scenography — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
  • sceuophylax — a keeper of sacred vessels
  • scolopendra — a member of a genus of centipedes belonging to the Scolopendridae family
  • scopolamine — a colorless, syrupy, water-soluble alkaloid, C 1 7 H 2 1 NO 4 , obtained from certain plants of the nightshade family, used chiefly as a sedative and mydriatic and to alleviate the symptoms of motion sickness.
  • scorpaenoid — resembling or related to the family Scorpaenidae.
  • scotch tape — clear adhesive tape
  • scotch-tape — to fasten or mend with Scotch tape.
  • sea scallop — Also called giant scallop. a large scallop, Pecten magellanicus, of deep waters off the Atlantic coast of North America.
  • sea-poacher — poacher1 (def 2).
  • snap course — an academic course that can be passed with a minimum of effort.
  • snow-capped — A snow-capped mountain is covered with snow at the top.
  • space group — a set of symmetry elements that brings a periodic arrangement of points on a Bravais space lattice to its original position.
  • space opera — a television or radio drama or motion picture that is a science-fiction adventure story.
  • space probe — Aerospace. an unmanned spacecraft designed to explore the solar system and transmit data back to earth.
  • spathaceous — of the nature of or resembling a spathe.
  • spatterdock — any of various water lilies of the genus Nuphar, having globular yellow flowers and growing in lakes or sluggish streams, especially N. advena, of the eastern U.S.
  • specialogue — a mail-order catalogue aimed at a specific group of customers
  • spectrogram — a representation or photograph of a spectrum.
  • speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
  • speculatory — a place suitable for observation
  • spermatoxic — (of a substance) toxic to spermatozoa.
  • spirochaete — any of various spiral-shaped motile bacteria of the family Spirochaetaceae, certain species, as Treponema, Leptospira, and Borrelia, being pathogenic to humans and other animals, and other species being free-living, saprophytic, or parasitic.
  • sponge cake — a light, sweet cake made with a comparatively large proportion of eggs but no shortening.
  • stauroscope — an optical instrument for studying the crystal structure of minerals under polarized light
  • steatopygic — extreme accumulation of fat on and about the buttocks, especially of women.
  • superoctave — an organ stop two octaves above the standard pitch
  • syncopative — relating to syncopation
  • technospeak — any abstruse technical jargon
  • triceratops — any of various dinosaurs of the genus Triceratops, of the late Cretaceous Period, having a bony crest on the neck, a long horn over each eye, and a shorter horn on the nose.
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