11-letter words containing a, p, r, i, s, e
- presynaptic — being or occurring on the transmitting end of a discharge across a synapse.
- previsional — characteristic of prevision
- prick-tease — a woman who is sexually provocative but refuses to engage in sexual activity
- priestcraft — the training, knowledge, and abilities necessary to a priest.
- primariness — the state of being primary
- primateship — primacy (def 2).
- privateness — the quality of being private
- prosaicness — commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
- prosopopeia — personification, as of inanimate things.
- prostomiate — having a prostomium.
- prussianize — to make Prussian, as in character, method, organization, etc.
- rap session — a usually informal or unstructured group discussion, attended especially by people with shared interests, concerns, or problems.
- rapid chess — a game of chess played within a fixed amount of time, usually 30 minutes per player for all moves.
- raspberries — the fruit of any of several shrubs belonging to the genus Rubus, of the rose family, consisting of small and juicy red, black, or pale yellow drupelets forming a detachable cap about a convex receptacle.
- re-emphasis — special stress laid upon, or importance attached to, anything: The president's statement gave emphasis to the budgetary crisis.
- reappraisal — the act of estimating or judging the nature or value of something or someone.
- reappraiser — a person who appraises someone or something again
- recall slip — a printed piece of paper sent by library staff to a borrower's home address to remind them that a book is overdue
- reemphasize — to give emphasis to; lay stress upon; stress: to emphasize a point; to emphasize the eyes with mascara.
- repair shop — garage, body shop: for vehicles
- reparations — the making of amends for wrong or injury done: reparation for an injustice.
- res publica — the state, republic, or commonwealth
- respiration — the act of respiring; inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing.
- respiratory — pertaining to or serving for respiration: respiratory disease.
- retail shop — a shop which sells goods to individual customers
- retinispora — any member of the genus Retinispora, of conifers which grow in the east of Asia and in the east and west of North America
- riesz space — a topological space in which sets containing one point are closed.
- ripplegrass — English plantain.
- rupes altai — a mountain range in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 315 miles (507 km) long.
- safe period — an interval of the menstrual cycle when fertilization is considered to be least likely, usually a number of days prior and subsequent to the onset of menstruation.
- saline drip — the usually intravenous drop-by-drop administration of an isotonic solution of sodium chloride in distilled water
- saprolegnia — a variety of fungus
- sapropelite — a foul-smelling mud
- scapigerous — having a scape or leafless stalk
- scatter pin — a woman's small ornamental pin, usually worn with other similar pins on a dress, suit jacket, etc.
- scorpaenoid — resembling or related to the family Scorpaenidae.
- scrappiness — made up of scraps or of odds and ends; fragmentary; disconnected.
- seismograph — any of various instruments for measuring and recording the vibrations of earthquakes.
- self-praise — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- semipopular — relatively popular; quite popular
- semiprivate — having some degree of privacy but not fully private, as a hospital room with fewer beds than a ward.
- sempiternal — everlasting; eternal.
- senatorship — the office or position of a senator
- septemviral — of or relating to septemvirs or a septemvirate.
- septenarius — a verse consisting of seven feet, usually printed in two lines: used especially in Latin poems.
- septifragal — (of a capsule) dehiscing by breaking away from the partitions but remaining attached to the common axis; dehiscing at the valves or backs of the carpels but leaving the septa intact.
- serial port — A serial port on a computer is a place where you can connect the computer to a device such as a modem or a mouse.
- serigrapher — someone who engages in serigraphy
- serigraphic — of or pertaining to serigraphy
- service cap — a saucer-shaped uniform cap with a visor, standard in the U.S. Army and Air Force.