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11-letter words containing d, i, s, p, r, o

  • preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
  • predisposal — to give an inclination or tendency to beforehand; make susceptible: Genetic factors may predispose human beings to certain metabolic diseases.
  • predisposed — to give an inclination or tendency to beforehand; make susceptible: Genetic factors may predispose human beings to certain metabolic diseases.
  • prioritised — to arrange or do in order of priority: learning to prioritize our assignments.
  • prison yard — a piece of enclosed ground attached to a prison, where prisoners may take exercise at certain times
  • proceedings — a particular action or course or manner of action.
  • productions — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
  • prompt side — the part of the stage that in the U.S. is to the right and in Britain to the left as one faces the audience. Abbreviation: P.S.
  • prostituted — a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money; whore; harlot.
  • providences — a seaport in and the capital of Rhode Island, in the NE part, at the head of Narragansett Bay.
  • provisioned — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
  • pseudoprime — A backgammon prime (six consecutive occupied points) with one point missing. This term is an esoteric pun derived from a mathematical method that, rather than determining precisely whether a number is prime (has no divisors), uses a statistical technique to decide whether the number is "probably" prime. A number that passes this test is called a pseudoprime. The hacker backgammon usage stems from the idea that a pseudoprime is almost as good as a prime: it does the job of a prime until proven otherwise, and that probably won't happen.
  • rest period — a period of rest
  • rhapsodical — extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic.
  • safe period — an interval of the menstrual cycle when fertilization is considered to be least likely, usually a number of days prior and subsequent to the onset of menstruation.
  • sauropsidan — relating to the Sauropsida or animals belonging to the Sauriodea group in Huxley's classification
  • scorpaenoid — resembling or related to the family Scorpaenidae.
  • scripholder — a person who owns a scrip or scrips
  • sideropenia — a lack of iron in the body
  • siderophile — (of a cell or tissue) having an affinity for iron.
  • sideroscope — an apparatus for detecting splinters of iron or steel in the eye.
  • soldiership — a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
  • spheroidize — to turn or be turned into spheroids
  • spider hole — a foxhole with a camouflaged lid or cover in which a sniper hides
  • 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.
  • spinsterdom — the state of being a spinster
  • sporadicity — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
  • springboard — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
  • sword-point — the point of a sword
  • topdressing — an application of fertiliser to soil
  • torpedinous — of, relating to, or resembling a torpedo
  • uranoscopid — any fish of the family Uranoscopidae, comprising the stargazers.
  • urediospore — the spore of the rust fungi that appears between the aeciospore and the teliospore, commonly the summer spore.
  • wolf spider — any of numerous ground spiders of the family Lycosidae, including the southern European tarantula, Lycosa taretula, that hunt their prey instead of using a web.
  • wood spirit — methyl alcohol.
  • ziprasidone — An antipsychotic drug used in the treatment of schizophrenia etc.
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