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11-letter words containing c, s, p

  • pooh sticks — a children's game: each player throws a stick into a stream from one side of a bridge and the winner is the person whose stick emerges first on the other side
  • port neches — a town in SE Texas.
  • post chaise — a four-wheeled coach for rapid transportation of passengers and mail, used in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • post office — an office or station of a government postal system at which mail is received and sorted, from which it is dispatched and distributed, and at which stamps are sold or other services rendered.
  • post-coital — sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
  • post-crisis — a stage in a sequence of events at which the trend of all future events, especially for better or for worse, is determined; turning point.
  • 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.
  • postal card — a card sold by the post office with a stamp already printed on it.
  • postal code — British. postcode.
  • postcollege — an institution of higher learning, especially one providing a general or liberal arts education rather than technical or professional training. Compare university.
  • postconcert — occurring after a concert
  • postcranial — located posterior to the head.
  • postcubital — Anatomy, Zoology. pertaining to, involving, or situated near the cubitus.
  • postdivorce — of, or relating to the period after a person is divorced
  • postglacial — after a given glacial epoch, especially the Pleistocene.
  • posticteric — pertaining to or affected with icterus; jaundiced.
  • postponence — the act of postponing
  • postpyloric — the opening between the stomach and the duodenum.
  • 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
  • postvocalic — immediately following a vowel.
  • pot scourer — a small ball of wire or stiff plastic, or a flat piece of a rough fabric used for cleaning kitchen pots and pans
  • pot sticker — a pan-fried and steamed Chinese dumpling with a ground meat or vegetable filling.
  • pound scots — pound2 (def 7).
  • pousse-cafe — an after-dinner drink of liqueurs of various colors and specific gravities, carefully poured into a glass so as to remain floating in separate layers.
  • pre-closure — the act of closing; the state of being closed.
  • pre-islamic — existing prior to the ascendancy of Islam; pre-Muslim.
  • pre-scoring — to record the sound of (a motion picture) before filming.
  • preachiness — the quality of being preachy; a preachy style, esp a tedious one
  • precalculus — pertaining to the mathematical prerequisites for the study of calculus, as algebra, analytical geometry, and trigonometry.
  • precautious — using or displaying precaution: a precautious reply; a precautious person.
  • precedences — act or fact of preceding.
  • precentress — a female precentor
  • preceptress — a woman who is an instructor; teacher; tutor.
  • precipitous — of the nature of or characterized by precipices: a precipitous wall of rock.
  • preciseness — definitely or strictly stated, defined, or fixed: precise directions.
  • precisional — the state or quality of being precise.
  • precognosce — to conduct a preliminary examination of (a witness, a claim) prior to a trial
  • precomposed — to compose beforehand: to precompose a reply to a possible question.
  • preconquest — of or relating to the time before the conquest of one people, region, or country by another.
  • predeceased — to die before (another person, the occurrence of an event, etc.).
  • predecessor — parent
  • predispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
  • predynastic — of, relating to, or belonging to a time or period before the first dynasty of a nation, especially the period in Egypt before c3200 b.c.
  • prefectship — the position of, or period served as, a prefect
  • prehispanic — Spanish.
  • prehistoric — of or relating to the time or a period prior to recorded history: The dinosaur is a prehistoric beast.
  • prep school — preparatory school.
  • prepurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
  • presanctify — to sanctify ahead of an event
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