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11-letter words containing i, m, p, r, o, s

  • misanthropy — hatred, dislike, or distrust of humankind.
  • misoprostol — A drug used for various purposes including the prevention of drug-induced gastric ulcers and the inducement of abortions, having the chemical formula C22H38O5.
  • misreported — Simple past tense and past participle of misreport.
  • mitropoulos — Dimitri [dih-mee-tree;; Greek th ee-mee-tree] /dɪˈmi tri;; Greek ðiˈmi tri/ (Show IPA), 1897–1960, Greek symphony orchestra conductor in the U.S.
  • monitorship — (especially formerly) a student appointed to assist in the conduct of a class or school, as to help take attendance or keep order.
  • mother ship — a vessel or craft that services others operating far from a home port or center.
  • motherships — Plural form of mothership.
  • multiparous — of or relating to a multipara.
  • multiperson — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
  • myographist — a person who has expert knowledge of muscles
  • 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).
  • oarsmanship — The skill of rowing a boat.
  • omnipresent — present everywhere at the same time: the omnipresent God.
  • opportunism — the policy or practice, as in politics, business, or one's personal affairs, of adapting actions, decisions, etc., to expediency or effectiveness regardless of the sacrifice of ethical principles.
  • optometrist — a licensed professional who practices optometry.
  • overimposed — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
  • overimpress — to impress to an excessive degree
  • overpromise — a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one: unkept political promises.
  • paramastoid — of or relating to the part of the skull next to the mastoid process
  • paronomasia — the use of a word in different senses or the use of words similar in sound to achieve a specific effect, as humor or a dual meaning; punning.
  • passeriform — of or relating to the order Passeriformes; passerine.
  • pastoralism — the practice of herding as the primary economic activity of a society.
  • peroxisomal — of or relating to a peroxisome; of the nature of a peroxisome
  • personalism — Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
  • phosphorism — chronic phosphorus poisoning.
  • physiometry — measurement of the physiological functions of the body.
  • pipe smoker — a person who smokes a tobacco pipe
  • pittosporum — any of various shrubs or trees of the genus Pittosporum, native to warm regions of the Old World, many species of which are cultivated as ornamentals for their attractive foliage, flowers, or fruit.
  • pleiomerous — (of a flower) having a greater than normal number of parts
  • pleochroism — the property of certain crystals of exhibiting different colors when viewed from different directions under transmitted light. Compare dichroism (def 1), trichroism.
  • plumigerous — wearing or possessing feathers
  • plyometrics — a system of exercise in which the muscles are repeatedly stretched and suddenly contracted
  • polychroism — the ability of a crystal to absorb different wavelengths of light and thus to display multiple colours
  • polycrotism — a polycrotic condition
  • polymerizes — to subject to polymerization.
  • polyspermia — the secretion of an excessive amount of semen.
  • porro prism — an isosceles, right-triangular prism in which light entering one half of the hypotenuse face is reflected at the two short sides and is reversed in orientation when it leaves the other half of the hypotenuse: used in 90°-oriented pairs in binoculars to increase the length of the optical path and to erect the final image.
  • positronium — a short-lived atomic system consisting of a positron and an electron bound together.
  • postmarital — occurring, effective, or provided after marriage
  • postprimary — of or relating to education after primary school
  • pre-imposed — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
  • preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
  • prestissimo — (a musical direction) in the most rapid tempo.
  • presumption — the act of presuming.
  • prime focus — the focal point of the objective lens or primary mirror of a telescope
  • primiparous — a woman who has borne but one child or who is parturient for the first time.
  • prison camp — a camp for the confinement of prisoners of war or political prisoners.
  • prison farm — a farm attached to a prison, where prisoners carry out hard labour
  • probabilism — Philosophy. the doctrine, introduced by the Skeptics, that certainty is impossible and that probability suffices to govern faith and practice.
  • prochronism — a chronological error in which a person, event, etc., is assigned a date earlier than the actual one; prolepsis.
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