11-letter words containing i, c, o, n, s, p
- imprecision — not precise; not exact; vague or ill-defined.
- in close-up — If you see something in close-up, you see it in great detail in a photograph or piece of film which has been taken very near to the subject.
- in lockstep — When members of the armed forces march in lockstep, they march very close to each other.
- in prospect — expected, predicted
- incapacious — Not capacious; narrow, small, weak, or foolish.
- incompassed — Simple past tense and past participle of incompass.
- incompletes — Plural form of incomplete.
- incomposite — not composite or consisting of parts; simple; not divisible into parts
- inscription — something inscribed.
- inspections — Plural form of inspection.
- ionospheric — Of or pertaining to the ionosphere.
- kinetoscope — an early motion-picture device, invented by Edison, in which the film passed behind a peephole for viewing by a single viewer.
- liposuction — the surgical withdrawal of excess fat from local areas under the skin by means of a small incision and vacuum suctioning.
- long splice — a splice for forming a united rope narrow enough to pass through a block, made by unlaying the ends of two ropes for a considerable distance, overlapping the strands so as to make pairs of one strand from each rope, unlaying one of each pair, twisting the other strand into its place in the united rope, and tucking the yarns of the unlaid strand separately into place.
- mesonephric — one of the three embryonic excretory organs of vertebrates, becoming the functional kidney of fishes and amphibians and becoming part of the tubules or ductules in the reproductive systems of higher vertebrates.
- microphones — Plural form of microphone.
- misocapnist — (rare) One who hates tobacco smoke.
- most-pontic — pertaining to the Pontus Euxinus or to Pontus.
- nanophysics — the physics of structures and artefacts with dimensions in the nanometre range or of phenomena occurring in nanoseconds
- necropoleis — Plural form of necropolis.
- necroscopic — of or relating to a necropsy or postmortem examination
- nicol prism — one of a pair of prisms used to produce and analyze plane-polarized light in a polarizing microscope. Also called Nicol. Compare polarizer (def 1).
- nightscopes — Plural form of nightscope.
- nincompoops — Plural form of nincompoop.
- nociceptors — Plural form of nociceptor.
- nondescript — of no recognized, definite, or particular type or kind: a nondescript novel; a nondescript color.
- nonphysical — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
- nonspecific — Not detailed or exact; general.
- occupancies — Plural form of occupancy.
- occupations — Plural form of occupation.
- oneiroscopy — the interpretation or study of dreams
- open switch — (IBM, probably from railways) An unresolved question, issue, or problem.
- pantisocrat — someone who believes, or takes part, in pantisocracy
- pantoscopic — showing a wide-angled view
- pedodontics — the branch of dentistry dealing with the care and treatment of children's teeth.
- perceptions — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
- persecution — the act of persecuting.
- phonematics — phonemics.
- phonetastic — (communications) A CTI product from Callware. Phonetastic employs if-then rules and customer records to tell those receiving calls who is calling (based on ANI and DNIS) and to determine how the call should be routed, e.g. to a certain sales representative or to the general sales department; receive high-priority treatment; receive a fax-back, etc.
- phoneticism — a phonetic scheme of writing
- phoniatrics — the study and treatment of voice disorders.
- piano music — printed music intended to be played on the piano
- pinocytoses — (of a cell) to take within by means of pinocytosis.
- pinocytosis — the transport of fluid into a cell by means of local infoldings by the cell membrane so that a tiny vesicle or sac forms around each droplet, which is then taken into the interior of the cytoplasm.
- pitchperson — a pitchman or pitchwoman
- 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.
- pontificals — of, relating to, or characteristic of a pontiff; papal.
- postcranial — located posterior to the head.
- 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
- pre-scoring — to record the sound of (a motion picture) before filming.