11-letter words containing c, l, o, i, s, t
- philoctetes — Classical Mythology. a noted archer and squire of Hercules. Bitten by a snake and abandoned on an island because of his festering wound, he was at length brought by the Greeks to Troy, where he recovered and later killed Paris.
- phycologist — the branch of botany dealing with algae.
- piscatology — the art or science of fishing.
- piscatorial — of or relating to fishermen or fishing: a piscatory treaty.
- pleistocene — noting or pertaining to the epoch forming the earlier half of the Quaternary Period, beginning about two million years ago and ending 10,000 years ago, characterized by widespread glacial ice and the advent of modern humans.
- plyometrics — a system of exercise in which the muscles are repeatedly stretched and suddenly contracted
- polycrotism — a polycrotic condition
- pontificals — of, relating to, or characteristic of a pontiff; papal.
- post-coital — sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
- post-cyclic — denoting rules that apply only after the transformations of a whole cycle
- post-racial — characterized by the absence of racial discord, discrimination, or prejudice previously or historically present: post-racial politics; the post-racial era.
- postcranial — located posterior to the head.
- postcubital — Anatomy, Zoology. pertaining to, involving, or situated near the cubitus.
- postglacial — after a given glacial epoch, especially the Pleistocene.
- postpyloric — the opening between the stomach and the duodenum.
- postvocalic — immediately following a vowel.
- protocolist — a person who drafts protocols
- psilophytic — (of a plant) that grows well in the dry savannah
- punctilious — extremely attentive to punctilios; strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions.
- pyroclastic — composed chiefly of fragments of volcanic origin, as agglomerate, tuff, and certain other rocks; volcaniclastic.
- ratio scale — a scale of measurement of data which permits the comparison of differences of values; a scale having a fixed zero value. The distances travelled by a projectile, for instance, are measured on a ratio scale since it makes sense to talk of one projectile travelling twice as far as another
- reflections — thoughts, esp careful or long-considered ones
- reselection — an act or instance of selecting or the state of being selected; choice.
- sacculation — formed into or having a saccule, sac, or saclike dilation.
- saint-cloud — a city in central Minnesota, on the Mississippi.
- saltimbanco — a charlatan or fake
- saltimbocca — veal and ham wrapped together and sautéed in butter, often seasoned with sage.
- school time — the period of the day or year when children are at school
- school trip — educational outing
- schorlomite — a mineral that is black in colour and belongs to the garnet group
- scientology — the philosophy of the Church of Scientology, a nondenominational movement founded in the US in the 1950s, which emphasizes self-knowledge as a means of realizing full spiritual potential
- scissortail — Also called scissortailed flycatcher [siz-er-teyld] /ˈsɪz ərˌteɪld/ (Show IPA). a flycatcher, Muscivora forficatus, of the southern U.S., Mexico, and Central America, having a long, deeply forked tail.
- sclerotitis — scleritis.
- sclerotized — (especially of the cuticle of an arthropod) hardened by the presence of substances other than chitin, as by scleroproteins, waxes, or calcium salts.
- scotophilic — living and flourishing in darkness.
- scriptorial — of or relating to a scriptorium
- secretional — of or relating to secretion
- selectorial — of or relating to selections or selectors
- silk cotton — the silky covering of the seeds of certain tropical trees of the bombax family, used for stuffing cushions, pillows, etc.
- slit pocket — a pocket on the underside of a garment, reached through a vertical opening
- slot racing — the activity of racing slot cars.
- slow-acting — working or acting slowly, not immediately
- slow-twitch — of or relating to muscle fiber that contracts relatively slowly and is resistant to fatigue (distinguished from fast-twitch).
- sociability — the act or an instance of being sociable.
- social unit — a person or a group of persons, as a family, functioning as a unit in society.
- socialistic — of or relating to socialists or socialism.
- sociologist — the science or study of the origin, development, organization, and functioning of human society; the science of the fundamental laws of social relations, institutions, etc.
- sodomitical — anal or oral copulation with a member of the opposite sex.
- soft pencil — a type of pencil that contains a thicker, oilier and darker form of graphite
- solicitudes — the state of being solicitous; anxiety or concern.