11-letter words containing g, o, s, i, p
- proselyting — a person who has changed from one opinion, religious belief, sect, or the like, to another; convert.
- prospecting — Usually, prospects. an apparent probability of advancement, success, profit, etc. the outlook for the future: good business prospects.
- prostrating — to cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.
- protagonism — the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.
- protagonist — the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.
- pruriginous — of, relating to, or causing prurigo.
- pseudologia — a psychological condition in which a patient tells elaborate, false stories believing them to be true
- psychogenic — having origin in the mind or in a mental condition or process: a psychogenic disorder.
- psychologic — of or relating to psychology.
- pyrognostic — relating to heated minerals
- ring-porous — having annual rings marked by a conspicuous band of large pores in wood formed in spring.
- saprolegnia — a variety of fungus
- scapigerous — having a scape or leafless stalk
- seismograph — any of various instruments for measuring and recording the vibrations of earthquakes.
- serpiginous — (formerly) a creeping or spreading skin disease, as ringworm.
- shopkeeping — a retail merchant or tradesman; a person who owns or operates a small store or shop.
- shoplifting — to steal (merchandise) as a shoplifter.
- showjumping — horseriding event
- sialography — radiography of salivary glands once they have been injected with a contrast medium
- sign-posted — a post bearing a sign that gives information or guidance.
- signposting — indication by means of signposts
- singaporean — an island on the Strait of Singapore, off the S tip of the Malay Peninsula.
- siphonogamy — a mode of pollination in which pollen tubes develop to facilitate the passage of male cells to eggs
- sociography — the branch of sociology that uses statistical data to describe social phenomena.
- sopping wet — soaked, dripping
- specialogue — a mail-order catalogue aimed at a specific group of customers
- 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.
- spirography — the study of breathing using a spirograph
- splodginess — the state of being splodgy
- sponge iron — finely divided, porous iron, reduced from an oxide at a temperature below the melting point.
- sporogonium — the sporangium of mosses and liverworts.
- spot fixing — the act of deliberately engineering an outcome within a sporting contest without attempting to alter the outcome of the contest itself
- spot height — the elevation of a certain point.
- spring lock — a lock that fastens automatically by a spring.
- spring roll — an egg roll.
- spring snow — corn snow.
- springboard — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
- 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.
- spy-hopping — a vertical half-rise out of the water performed by a whale in order to view the surroundings. a springing bounce in tall grasses performed by certain land mammals, as foxes and wolves, to view the surroundings.
- steatopygia — extreme accumulation of fat on and about the buttocks, especially of women.
- steatopygic — extreme accumulation of fat on and about the buttocks, especially of women.
- stockpiling — the activity of acquiring and storing a large quantity of something
- strongpoint — a fortified defensive position; stronghold.
- 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.
- superegoist — an exceptionally selfish or self-centred person; someone who is very self-important
- surgeonship — the position or responsibility of a surgeon
- syphilology — the branch of medicine concerned with the study and treatment of syphilis
- 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.
- top slicing — mining of thick orebodies in a series of stopes from top to bottom, the roof being caved with its timbers as each stope is exhausted.