11-letter words containing c, o, n, e, s, p
- knoop scale — a scale of hardness based on the indentation made in the material to be tested by a diamond point.
- leap second — Coordinated Universal Time
- long splice — a splice for forming a united rope narrow enough to pass through a block, made by unlaying the ends of two ropes for a considerable distance, overlapping the strands so as to make pairs of one strand from each rope, unlaying one of each pair, twisting the other strand into its place in the united rope, and tucking the yarns of the unlaid strand separately into place.
- lychnoscope — lowside window.
- mecopterans — Plural form of mecopteran.
- mesonephric — one of the three embryonic excretory organs of vertebrates, becoming the functional kidney of fishes and amphibians and becoming part of the tubules or ductules in the reproductive systems of higher vertebrates.
- microphones — Plural form of microphone.
- necropoleis — Plural form of necropolis.
- necroscopic — of or relating to a necropsy or postmortem examination
- nephoscopes — Plural form of nephoscope.
- nephroscope — (surgery) An instrument used to examine the kidney through an inserted tube.
- nightscopes — Plural form of nightscope.
- nociceptors — Plural form of nociceptor.
- non-suspect — to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof: to suspect a person of murder.
- noncomposer — a person who is not a composer
- nondescript — of no recognized, definite, or particular type or kind: a nondescript novel; a nondescript color.
- nonspecific — Not detailed or exact; general.
- nonspecular — that reflects light diffusely and evenly over the hemisphere surrounding the reflective surface; diffuse
- nucleoplasm — the protoplasm of the nucleus of a cell.
- occupancies — Plural form of occupancy.
- on the cusp — If you say that someone or something is on the cusp, you mean they are between two states, or are about to be in a particular state.
- oneiroscopy — the interpretation or study of dreams
- opalescence — exhibiting a play of colors like that of the opal.
- open secret — something supposedly secret but actually known quite generally.
- open source — Computers. pertaining to or denoting software whose source code is available free of charge to the public to use, copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute.
- open stance — a batting stance in which the front foot is farther from the inside of the batter's box than the back foot.
- open switch — (IBM, probably from railways) An unresolved question, issue, or problem.
- open-source — Computers. pertaining to or denoting software whose source code is available free of charge to the public to use, copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute.
- panchreston — a proposed explanation intended to address a complex problem by trying to account for all possible contingencies but typically proving to be too broadly conceived and therefore oversimplified to be of any practical use.
- peach stone — the stone in the centre of the fruit the peach
- pedodontics — the branch of dentistry dealing with the care and treatment of children's teeth.
- penny stock — common stock, usually highly speculative, selling for less than a dollar a share.
- pentecostal — of or relating to Pentecost, a Christian festival commemorating the descent of the Holy Ghost upon the apostles.
- perceptions — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
- persecution — the act of persecuting.
- phonematics — phonemics.
- 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.
- phoneticism — a phonetic scheme of writing
- pinocytoses — (of a cell) to take within by means of pinocytosis.
- pitchperson — a pitchman or pitchwoman
- 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.
- port neches — a town in SE Texas.
- postconcert — occurring after a concert
- postponence — the act of postponing
- postscenium — a wing on either side of the stage of an ancient Greek or Roman theatre where props could be stored and actors could prepare; a parascenium
- pre-scoring — to record the sound of (a motion picture) before filming.
- precisional — the state or quality of being precise.
- precognosce — to conduct a preliminary examination of (a witness, a claim) prior to a trial
- preconquest — of or relating to the time before the conquest of one people, region, or country by another.
- prescission — the action of prescinding