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11-letter words containing i, c, o, n, s, p

  • precisional — the state or quality of being precise.
  • prescission — the action of prescinding
  • prison camp — a camp for the confinement of prisoners of war or political prisoners.
  • pro-chinese — the standard language of China, based on the speech of Beijing; Mandarin.
  • proceedings — a particular action or course or manner of action.
  • prochronism — a chronological error in which a person, event, etc., is assigned a date earlier than the actual one; prolepsis.
  • productions — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
  • prosaicness — commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
  • prosecuting — carrying out a prosecution
  • prosecution — Law. the institution and carrying on of legal proceedings against a person. the body of officials by whom such proceedings are instituted and carried on.
  • prosiliency — prominence
  • prospecting — Usually, prospects. an apparent probability of advancement, success, profit, etc. the outlook for the future: good business prospects.
  • prospection — anticipation
  • providences — a seaport in and the capital of Rhode Island, in the NE part, at the head of Narragansett Bay.
  • psychogenic — having origin in the mind or in a mental condition or process: a psychogenic disorder.
  • psychonomic — of or relating to psychonomics
  • punctilious — extremely attentive to punctilios; strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions.
  • punicaceous — of or relating to the family Punicaceae, containing the pomegranates
  • pycniospore — the spore produced in a pycnium.
  • pyrognostic — relating to heated minerals
  • rapscallion — a rascal; rogue; scamp.
  • rescription — a reply or answering of a letter
  • retinoscope — an apparatus that determines the refractive power of the eye by observing the lights and shadows on the pupil when a mirror illumines the retina; skiascope.
  • retinoscopy — an objective method of determining the refractive error of an eye.
  • schoonschip — (mathematics, tool)   (From the Dutch for "beautiful ship" or "clean ship") A program for symbolic mathematics, especially High Energy Physics, written by M. Veltman of CERN in 1964. Schoonschip only does algebra, no derivatives. It was implemented originally in CDC 6600 and CDC 7600 assembly language and currently in 680x0 assembly language. Runs on Amiga, Atari ST, Sun-3 and NeXT. It was once maintained by David Williams at the University of Michigan Physics Department.
  • scopolamine — a colorless, syrupy, water-soluble alkaloid, C 1 7 H 2 1 NO 4 , obtained from certain plants of the nightshade family, used chiefly as a sedative and mydriatic and to alleviate the symptoms of motion sickness.
  • scorpaenoid — resembling or related to the family Scorpaenidae.
  • scorpionfly — any of several harmless insects of the order Mecoptera, the male of certain species having a reproductive structure that resembles the sting of a scorpion.
  • scotch pine — a pine, Pinus sylvestris, of Eurasia, having a reddish trunk and twisted, bluish-green needles.
  • scotophobin — a peptide isolated from the brains of rats conditioned to avoid darkness, alleged to induce a dark-avoidance response in untrained rats, mice, and other animals.
  • sipunculoid — a member of the group Sipunculoidea
  • sniperscope — a snooperscope designed for attaching to a rifle or carbine.
  • soft pencil — a type of pencil that contains a thicker, oilier and darker form of graphite
  • speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
  • speedcoding — (language)   A pseudocode interpreter for mathematics on IBM 701 and IBM 650 written by John Backus in 1953.
  • spiculation — formation into spicules.
  • 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.
  • spodomantic — relating to spodomancy
  • spondulicks — money; cash.
  • spondylitic — inflammation of the vertebrae.
  • spring lock — a lock that fastens automatically by a spring.
  • stockpiling — the activity of acquiring and storing a large quantity of something
  • suction cup — a cup-shaped object of rubber, glass, plastic, etc., which, by producing a partial vacuum, can be made to adhere to or draw something to a surface.
  • supersonics — the branch of science that deals with supersonic phenomena.
  • suspicional — of or relating to suspicion, especially morbid or insane suspicions.
  • sycophantic — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
  • syncopation — Music. a shifting of the normal accent, usually by stressing the normally unaccented beats.
  • syncopative — relating to syncopation
  • synoptistic — relating to the work of a synoptist
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