11-letter words containing c, r, e, p, s
- presentence — Grammar. a grammatical unit of one or more words that expresses an independent statement, question, request, command, exclamation, etc., and that typically has a subject as well as a predicate, as in John is here. or Is John here? In print or writing, a sentence typically begins with a capital letter and ends with appropriate punctuation; in speech it displays recognizable, communicative intonation patterns and is often marked by preceding and following pauses.
- press corps — a group of journalists representing various publications who regularly cover the same beat: the White House press corps.
- presynaptic — being or occurring on the transmitting end of a discharge across a synapse.
- prick-tease — a woman who is sexually provocative but refuses to engage in sexual activity
- priestcraft — the training, knowledge, and abilities necessary to a priest.
- prime focus — the focal point of the objective lens or primary mirror of a telescope
- pro-chinese — the standard language of China, based on the speech of Beijing; Mandarin.
- proceedings — a particular action or course or manner of action.
- processable — capable of being processed.
- processible — capable of being processed.
- procrustean — pertaining to or suggestive of Procrustes.
- proctoscope — an instrument for visual examination of the interior of the rectum.
- prosaicness — commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
- prosecuting — carrying out a prosecution
- prosecution — Law. the institution and carrying on of legal proceedings against a person. the body of officials by whom such proceedings are instituted and carried on.
- prosecutory — of, relating to, or concerned with prosecution.
- prosecutrix — a female prosecutor or plaintiff
- prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
- 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.
- protectress — a woman who guards or defends someone or something; protector.
- providences — a seaport in and the capital of Rhode Island, in the NE part, at the head of Narragansett Bay.
- psychometer — a device for measuring mental or psychological activity
- psychometry — Psychology. psychometrics.
- pump prices — petrol prices
- punch press — a power-driven machine used to cut, draw, or otherwise shape material, especially metal sheets, with dies, under pressure or by heavy blows.
- purchasable — capable of being bought.
- putrescence — becoming putrid; undergoing putrefaction.
- putrescible — liable to become putrid.
- pycniospore — the spore produced in a pycnium.
- radarscopes — Plural form of radarscope.
- rapid chess — a game of chess played within a fixed amount of time, usually 30 minutes per player for all moves.
- recall slip — a printed piece of paper sent by library staff to a borrower's home address to remind them that a book is overdue
- record shop — store selling recorded music
- reinspected — to look carefully at or over; view closely and critically: to inspect every part of the motor.
- reject shop — a shop that sells damaged or imperfect products that cannot be sold at the full price
- relandscape — to landscape again after a previous landscaping
- reprocessed — (of wool) previously spun and woven but not used, as tailors' clippings.
- repurchaser — to buy again; regain by purchase.
- res publica — the state, republic, or commonwealth
- rescription — a reply or answering of a letter
- respectable — worthy of respect or esteem; estimable; worthy: a respectable citizen.
- respectably — worthy of respect or esteem; estimable; worthy: a respectable citizen.
- respectless — disrespectful, not offering respect, lacking respect
- respondence — the act of responding; response: respondence to a stimulus.
- 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.