11-letter words containing c, o, r, p, i, s
- prosiliency — prominence
- prospecting — Usually, prospects. an apparent probability of advancement, success, profit, etc. the outlook for the future: good business prospects.
- prospection — anticipation
- prospective — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- prosthetics — an artificial body part; a prosthesis: Hundreds of amputees volunteered to test the new prosthetics.
- protocolist — a person who drafts protocols
- providences — a seaport in and the capital of Rhode Island, in the NE part, at the head of Narragansett Bay.
- pycniospore — the spore produced in a pycnium.
- pyroclastic — composed chiefly of fragments of volcanic origin, as agglomerate, tuff, and certain other rocks; volcaniclastic.
- pyrognostic — relating to heated minerals
- rapscallion — a rascal; rogue; scamp.
- rescription — a reply or answering of a letter
- retinoscope — an apparatus that determines the refractive power of the eye by observing the lights and shadows on the pupil when a mirror illumines the retina; skiascope.
- retinoscopy — an objective method of determining the refractive error of an eye.
- rhapsodical — extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic.
- rocket ship — a rocket-propelled aircraft or spacecraft.
- rope stitch — (in embroidery) a stitch formed from the entwining of stitches.
- saprobiotic — saprobic
- saprophytic — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- scalpriform — chisel-shaped, as the incisors of certain rodents.
- scapigerous — having a scape or leafless stalk
- scholarship — learning; knowledge acquired by study; the academic attainments of a scholar.
- school trip — educational outing
- scorpaenoid — resembling or related to the family Scorpaenidae.
- scorpionfly — any of several harmless insects of the order Mecoptera, the male of certain species having a reproductive structure that resembles the sting of a scorpion.
- scripholder — a person who owns a scrip or scrips
- scripophile — a person who practices scripophily.
- scripophily — the collecting by hobbyists of old stock certificates and bonds that have no intrinsic value other than their aesthetic appeal or relative rarity.
- scriptorial — of or relating to a scriptorium
- scriptorium — a room, as in a monastery, library, or other institution, where manuscripts are stored, read, or copied.
- scrumptious — very pleasing, especially to the senses; delectable; splendid: a scrumptious casserole; a scrumptious satin gown.
- sideroscope — an apparatus for detecting splinters of iron or steel in the eye.
- sniperscope — a snooperscope designed for attaching to a rifle or carbine.
- sociography — the branch of sociology that uses statistical data to describe social phenomena.
- spermatoxic — (of a substance) toxic to spermatozoa.
- spermotoxic — (of a substance) toxic to spermatozoa.
- spice route — an ancient trade route followed by merchants, importers and exporters trading in exotic spices such as cloves and cinnamon
- spin doctor — Slang. a press agent skilled at spin control.
- spinal cord — the cord of nerve tissue extending through the spinal canal of the spinal column.
- spirochaete — any of various spiral-shaped motile bacteria of the family Spirochaetaceae, certain species, as Treponema, Leptospira, and Borrelia, being pathogenic to humans and other animals, and other species being free-living, saprophytic, or parasitic.
- sporadicity — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- sporocystic — of or like a sporocyst
- spring lock — a lock that fastens automatically by a spring.
- stereoptics — the branch of stereoscopy that is concerned with optics
- stereotypic — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
- subtropical — bordering on the tropics; nearly tropical.
- superheroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- supersonics — the branch of science that deals with supersonic phenomena.
- symposiarch — the president, director, or master of a symposium.
- terpsichore — Classical Mythology. the Muse of dancing and choral song.