11-letter words containing e, i, g, n, s, p
- re-shipping — to ship again.
- safekeeping — the act of keeping safe or the state of being kept safe; protection; care; custody.
- saprolegnia — a variety of fungus
- sempstering — the profession of being a tailor
- serpiginous — (formerly) a creeping or spreading skin disease, as ringworm.
- shepherding — a person who herds, tends, and guards sheep.
- shopkeeping — a retail merchant or tradesman; a person who owns or operates a small store or shop.
- sign-posted — a post bearing a sign that gives information or guidance.
- singaporean — an island on the Strait of Singapore, off the S tip of the Malay Peninsula.
- single tape — a ribbon of material, usually with a plastic base, coated on one side (single tape) or both sides (double tape) with a substance containing iron oxide, to make it sensitive to impulses from an electromagnet: used to record sound, images, data, etc.
- single whip — an instrument for striking, as in driving animals or in punishing, typically consisting of a lash or other flexible part with a more rigid handle.
- single-step — to perform a single instruction on (a program), generally under the control of a debug program
- sopping wet — soaked, dripping
- spacefaring — space travel
- spaghettini — pasta in the form of long thin strings
- speculating — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- speedcoding — (language) A pseudocode interpreter for mathematics on IBM 701 and IBM 650 written by John Backus in 1953.
- sphingosine — a basic unsaturated amino alcohol, C 1 8 H 3 3 (OH) 2 NH 2 , produced by the hydrolysis of sphingomyelin or gangliosides.
- spindlelegs — (used with a plural verb) long, thin legs.
- spirketting — deck planking near the bulwarks
- spitsbergen — a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean, N of and belonging to Norway. 24,293 sq. mi. (62,920 sq. km).
- spitzbergen — a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean, N of and belonging to Norway. 24,293 sq. mi. (62,920 sq. km).
- spitzenburg — any of several red or yellow varieties of apple that ripen in the autumn.
- splintering — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
- splodginess — the state of being splodgy
- sponge iron — finely divided, porous iron, reduced from an oxide at a temperature below the melting point.
- spreadingly — in a spreading manner
- spring line — warp (def 16).
- spring rate — The spring rate is a measurement of the amount of force needed to compress a spring a particular distance.
- spring tide — the large rise and fall of the tide at or soon after the new or the full moon.
- springfield — a state in the central United States: a part of the Midwest. 56,400 sq. mi. (146,075 sq. km). Capital: Springfield. Abbreviation: IL (for use with zip code), Ill.
- springhouse — a small storehouse built over a spring or part of a brook, for keeping such foods as meat and dairy products cool and fresh.
- springiness — characterized by spring or elasticity; flexible; resilient: He walks with a springy step.
- springsteen — Bruce. born 1949, US rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist. His albums include Born to Run (1975), Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978), Born in the USA (1984), The Ghost of Tom Joad (1995), The Rising (2002), Magic (2007), and Wrecking Ball (2012)
- springville — a town in central Utah.
- springwater — water from a spring
- stepdancing — a dance emphasizing footwork or certain steps instead of other bodily gestures or movement
- stepsibling — a stepbrother or stepsister.
- strap hinge — a hinge having a flap, especially a long one, attached to one face of a door or the like.
- strap-hinge — a hinge having a flap, especially a long one, attached to one face of a door or the like.
- stringpiece — a long, usually horizontal piece of timber, beam, etc., for strengthening, connecting, or supporting a framework.
- subpoenaing — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
- superceding — supersede.
- superseding — to replace in power, authority, effectiveness, acceptance, use, etc., as by another person or thing.
- supersinger — an exceptional singer
- superstring — any supersymmetric string theory in which each type of elementary particle is treated as a vibration of a single fundamental string (superstring) at a particular frequency.
- suppressing — to put an end to the activities of (a person, body of persons, etc.): to suppress the Communist and certain left-leaning parties.
- surgeonship — the position or responsibility of a surgeon
- swing space — a temporary working environment, used esp while renovations are being carried out
- telescoping — an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly; the other form (reflecting telescope) has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed. Compare radio telescope.