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11-letter words containing e, s, p, i

  • plastiqueur — a person, especially a terrorist, who makes, places, or detonates plastic bombs.
  • plebeianism — belonging or pertaining to the common people.
  • pleinairism — pertaining to a manner or style of painting developed chiefly in France in the mid-19th century, characterized by the representation of the luminous effects of natural light and atmosphere as contrasted with the artificial light and absence of the sense of air or atmosphere associated with paintings produced in the studio.
  • pleiomerous — (of a flower) having a greater than normal number of parts
  • pleistocene — noting or pertaining to the epoch forming the earlier half of the Quaternary Period, beginning about two million years ago and ending 10,000 years ago, characterized by widespread glacial ice and the advent of modern humans.
  • plenishings — furnishings or equipment
  • pleochroism — the property of certain crystals of exhibiting different colors when viewed from different directions under transmitted light. Compare dichroism (def 1), trichroism.
  • plisetskaya — Maya (Mikhailovna) [mah-yuh myi-khahy-luh v-nuh] /ˈmɑ yə myɪˈxaɪ ləv nə/ (Show IPA), 1925–2015, Soviet ballet dancer.
  • plumigerous — wearing or possessing feathers
  • pluriserial — having many series or rows
  • plyometrics — a system of exercise in which the muscles are repeatedly stretched and suddenly contracted
  • pneumonitis — inflammation of the lung caused by a virus or exposure to irritating substances.
  • pocket-size — small enough to fit conveniently into one's pocket.
  • poison bean — Also called bladderpod. a tall plant, Glottidium vesicaria, of the legume family, native to the southeastern U.S., having clusters of yellow flowers and pods containing highly poisonous seeds.
  • polariscope — an instrument for measuring or exhibiting the polarization of light or for examining substances in polarized light, often to determine stress and strain in glass and other substances.
  • poltergeist — a ghost or spirit supposed to manifest its presence by noises, knockings, etc.
  • polygenesis — origin from more than one ancestral species or line.
  • polymerizes — to subject to polymerization.
  • polyspermia — the secretion of an excessive amount of semen.
  • polysulfide — a sulfide whose molecules contain two or more atoms of sulfur.
  • ponderosity — of great weight; heavy; massive.
  • possessions — wealth or property
  • 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.
  • postdivorce — of, or relating to the period after a person is divorced
  • postediting — the act of editing after a piece of writing has been produced or printed by a machine
  • posteriorly — situated behind or at the rear of; hinder (opposed to anterior).
  • posterities — succeeding or future generations collectively: Judgment of this age must be left to posterity.
  • postexilian — being or occurring subsequent to the exile of the Jews in Babylonia 597–538 b.c.
  • posticteric — pertaining to or affected with icterus; jaundiced.
  • 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
  • posttension — (in prestressed-concrete construction) to apply tension to (reinforcing strands) after the concrete has set. Compare pretension2 (def 1).
  • posttussive — of or relating to a cough.
  • postweaning — of, relating to, or occurring in the period following weaning
  • pot sticker — a pan-fried and steamed Chinese dumpling with a ground meat or vegetable filling.
  • praenestine — of or relating to the ancient town of Praeneste in Italy, or to the Latin dialect spoken there.
  • praetorship — the office of a praetor.
  • pre-imposed — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
  • pre-islamic — existing prior to the ascendancy of Islam; pre-Muslim.
  • pre-notions — a preconception.
  • pre-scoring — to record the sound of (a motion picture) before filming.
  • pre-selling — to sell in advance, as before manufacture or construction: to presell a planned house.
  • pre-seminal — released before semen is ejaculated
  • pre-spanish — of or relating to Spain, its people, or their language.
  • pre-testing — an advance or preliminary testing or trial, as of a new product.
  • preachiness — the quality of being preachy; a preachy style, esp a tedious one
  • preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
  • precautious — using or displaying precaution: a precautious reply; a precautious person.
  • precipitous — of the nature of or characterized by precipices: a precipitous wall of rock.
  • preciseness — definitely or strictly stated, defined, or fixed: precise directions.
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