11-letter words containing a, s, y, m, p
- mycoplasmal — Of or pertaining to mycoplasma.
- mycoplasmas — Plural form of mycoplasma.
- myographist — a person who has expert knowledge of muscles
- palm sunday — the Sunday before Easter, celebrated in commemoration of Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem.
- panpsychism — a theory that all matter has some form of consciousness.
- party music — music for or at a party
- physicalism — a doctrine associated with logical positivism and holding that every meaningful statement, other than the necessary statements of logic and mathematics, must refer directly or indirectly to observable properties of spatiotemporal things or events.
- plasmolysis — contraction of the protoplasm in a living cell when water is removed by exosmosis.
- play possum — opossum.
- poetry slam — a violent and noisy closing, dashing, or impact.
- polyamorous — noting or relating to polyamory, the practice or condition of participating simultaneously in more than one serious romantic or sexual relationship with the knowledge and consent of all partners.
- polychasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which each axis produces more than two lateral axes.
- polyspermia — the secretion of an excessive amount of semen.
- postprimary — of or relating to education after primary school
- preassembly — an assembling or coming together of a number of persons, usually for a particular purpose: The principal will speak to all the students at Friday's assembly.
- prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
- psammophyte — a plant that grows in sand or sandy soil.
- psychodrama — a method of group psychotherapy in which participants take roles in improvisational dramatizations of emotionally charged situations.
- psychomancy — occult communication between souls or with spirits.
- safety lamp — a miner's lamp in which the flame is protected by wire gauze to prevent the immediate ignition of explosive gases.
- scyphistoma — a stage in the life cycle of a jellyfish or other scyphozoan when it is fixed in place and reproduces asexually to produce free-swimming medusas.
- sea lamprey — a parasitic marine lamprey, Petromyzon marinus, that spawns in fresh water along both Atlantic coasts and in the Great Lakes, where it is responsible for losses of economically valuable fish.
- siphonogamy — a mode of pollination in which pollen tubes develop to facilitate the passage of male cells to eggs
- sky compass — a device for taking a bearing by means of polarized sunlight when the sun is invisible.
- smoky topaz — smoky quartz used as a gemstone: not a true topaz.
- spasmolysis — the relaxation or relief of muscle spasm.
- spasmolytic — of or noting spasmolysis.
- spermaphyte — the placenta of a plant
- sphygmogram — a tracing or diagram produced by a sphygmograph.
- stasimorphy — structural modification by arrested development
- sub-company — subsidiary company.
- superfamily — a category of related families within an order or suborder.
- swamp buggy — an amphibious vehicle for use in and around swamps, typically having an automobile engine, four-wheel drive, large wheels with deep treads, and a raised chassis.
- sympathetic — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
- sympathique — pleasing or congenial
- sympathizer — a person who sympathizes.
- sympetalous — gamopetalous.
- symposiarch — the president, director, or master of a symposium.
- symptomatic — pertaining to a symptom or symptoms.
- synaptosome — a saclike structure at an isolated nerve ending
- trypanosoma — trypanosome.
- trypanosome — any minute, flagellate protozoan of the genus Trypanosoma, parasitic in the blood or tissues of humans and other vertebrates, usually transmitted by insects, often causing serious diseases, as African sleeping sickness in humans, and many diseases in domestic animals.