11-letter words containing c, s, p
- peace talks — negotiations aimed at ending conflict
- peach stone — the stone in the centre of the fruit the peach
- pearlescent — having an iridescent luster resembling that of pearl; nacreous: healthy skin with a pearlescent glow.
- pechora sea — the SE part of the Barents Sea, northwest of Russia
- peckishness — the state or condition of being peckish
- pedanticise — to be pedantic
- pedanticism — pedantry.
- pediculosis — the state of being infested with lice.
- pediococcus — any of several spherical, facultatively anaerobic bacteria of the genus Pediococcus, producing acid and clouding in beer and wort.
- pedodontics — the branch of dentistry dealing with the care and treatment of children's teeth.
- pencil case — container for writing implements
- 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.
- perfect gas — ideal gas.
- perfectness — conforming absolutely to the description or definition of an ideal type: a perfect sphere; a perfect gentleman.
- perichylous — (of a plant) having water-storing tissue outside the green tissue
- perigastric — located near or around the gastric system (predominantly the stomach)
- peristaltic — of, relating to, or resembling peristalsis.
- persecution — the act of persecuting.
- persecutive — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
- persecutors — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
- persecutory — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
- persian cat — a long-haired variety of the domestic cat, originally raised in Persia and Afghanistan.
- persichetti — Vincent, 1915–87, U.S. composer.
- persistence — the act or fact of persisting.
- persistency — the act or fact of persisting.
- persnickety — overparticular; fussy.
- perspective — a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface. Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.
- perspicuity — clearness or lucidity, as of a statement.
- perspicuous — clearly expressed or presented; lucid.
- persulfuric — denoting a type of acid
- pescatarian — a person whose diet is mostly vegetarian but includes fish and seafood.
- pescetarian — a person whose diet is mostly vegetarian but includes fish and seafood.
- pessimistic — pertaining to or characterized by pessimism or the tendency to expect only bad outcomes; gloomy; joyless; unhopeful: His pessimistic outlook kept him from applying for jobs for which he was perfectly qualified.
- pet scanner — a tomographic imaging device that yields visual information about the ongoing activity of the brain: positron-emitting isotopes, incorporated into biologically important compounds, are injected intravenously or administered by inhalation, and the resultant gamma radiation is sensed by detectors and converted into computer-generated images of blood flow, oxygen utilization, glucose uptake, etc.
- petrarchism — the poetic style introduced by Petrarch and characteristic of his work, marked by complex grammatical structure, elaborate conceits, and conventionalized diction.
- petrarchist — a person who imitates the literary style employed by Petrarch, especially the poets of the English Renaissance who employed the Petrarchan sonnet style.
- phagocytose — phagocytize.
- pharisaical — of or relating to the Pharisees.
- phase space — a hypothetical space constructed so as to have as many coordinates as are necessary to define the state of a given substance or system.
- pheneticist — a person who makes classifications in the field of biology according to phenetic criteria
- 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.
- philosophic — of or relating to philosophy: philosophical studies.
- 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
- phoniatrics — the study and treatment of voice disorders.
- photomosaic — mosaic (def 4).
- photostatic — a camera for making facsimile copies of documents, drawings, etc., in the form of paper negatives on which the positions of lines, objects, etc., in the originals are maintained.