11-letter words containing a, s, p, o
- floatplanes — Plural form of floatplane.
- floodplains — Plural form of floodplain.
- floor space — an area on the floor of a premises where objects may be placed
- foetiparous — (of a marsupial) bearing young before they are fully developed.
- footscraper — a metal bar, set in a small frame and attached to a doorstep, used in cleaning mud from the bottoms of the shoes before entering a house.
- foremanship — The position of a foreman.
- forest park — a city in NW Georgia.
- foretopmast — (nautical) The mast above the foretop.
- foretopsail — (nautical) the sail draped from the foretopmast.
- fort casper — a fort in central Wyoming, near Casper: an important post on the Oregon Trail.
- fortepianos — Plural form of fortepiano.
- fox sparrow — a North American sparrow, Passerella iliaca, having a bright rufous tail and streaked breast.
- frost grape — riverbank grape.
- gamotropism — the tendency of gametes to attract each other
- gastropathy — (pathology) Any disease of the stomach.
- gastroscope — a lighted flexible tubular instrument passed through the mouth for examining the esophagus, stomach, and duodenum.
- gastroscopy — the examination with a gastroscope to detect disease.
- gastrosophy — the science or art of good eating
- gemmiparous — producing or reproducing by buds or gemmae.
- genioplasty — Mentoplasty.
- geographers — Plural form of geographer.
- geographies — the science dealing with the areal differentiation of the earth's surface, as shown in the character, arrangement, and interrelations over the world of such elements as climate, elevation, soil, vegetation, population, land use, industries, or states, and of the unit areas formed by the complex of these individual elements.
- geophysical — the branch of geology that deals with the physics of the earth and its atmosphere, including oceanography, seismology, volcanology, and geomagnetism.
- glamourpuss — a glamorous person, esp a woman
- gloss paint — Gloss paint is paint that forms a shiny surface when it dries.
- goalkeepers — Plural form of goalkeeper.
- gonycampsis — abnormal curvature of the knee.
- gopherspace — (networking) The sum of all files that can be reached using gopher.
- gospel oath — an oath sworn on the Gospels
- gossypiboma — (surgery) A gauze or surgical sponge left inside a patient's body during surgery.
- graded post — a position in a school having special responsibility for which additional payment is given
- gramophones — Plural form of gramophone.
- graptolites — Plural form of graptolite.
- grasshopper — any of numerous herbivorous, orthopterous insects, especially of the families Acrididae and Tettigoniidae, having the hind legs adapted for leaping and having chewing mouth parts, some species being highly destructive to vegetation. Compare locust (def 1), long-horned grasshopper.
- greaseproof — Resistant to grease.
- greasy pole — a pole covered with grease to make it slippery and difficult to climb, often used as entertainment
- gyrocompass — a navigational compass containing a gyroscope rotor, that, when adjusted for the latitude and speed of the vessel or aircraft, indicates the direction of true north along the surface of the earth or communicates this information to one or more gyro repeaters.
- haemoptysis — (British spelling) alternative spelling of hemoptysis.
- hagioscopes — Plural form of hagioscope.
- handyperson — a person who is practiced at doing maintenance work.
- haplogroups — Plural form of haplogroup.
- hard porn's — hard-core pornography.
- harpsichord — a keyboard instrument, precursor of the piano, in which the strings are plucked by leather or quill points connected with the keys, in common use from the 16th to the 18th century, and revived in the 20th.
- hectopascal — An SI unit of pressure and stress equal to 100 pascals.
- heliographs — Plural form of heliograph.
- hemianopsia — any of several conditions in which there is blindness in half of the visual field, involving one or both eyes.
- hepatocytes — Plural form of hepatocyte.
- hepatoscopy — medical examination of the liver.
- heptagynous — (of a flower) having seven pistils
- heptamerous — consisting of or divided into seven parts.