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

  • presanctify — to sanctify ahead of an event
  • prescindent — tending to prescind
  • prescission — the action of prescinding
  • presynaptic — being or occurring on the transmitting end of a discharge across a synapse.
  • 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.
  • pycniospore — the spore produced in a pycnium.
  • pyrognostic — relating to heated minerals
  • rapscallion — a rascal; rogue; scamp.
  • reinspected — to look carefully at or over; view closely and critically: to inspect every part of the motor.
  • 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.
  • scatter pin — a woman's small ornamental pin, usually worn with other similar pins on a dress, suit jacket, etc.
  • 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.
  • scrappiness — made up of scraps or of odds and ends; fragmentary; disconnected.
  • sculpturing — the act of sculpturing or carving
  • serpentinic — of, relating to, or containing the mineral serpentine
  • skyscraping — of or like a skyscraper; very high: a skyscraping chimney.
  • sniperscope — a snooperscope designed for attaching to a rifle or carbine.
  • spacefaring — space travel
  • 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.
  • spring lock — a lock that fastens automatically by a spring.
  • spruce pine — a tall coniferous tree, Pinus glabra, of the southeastern U.S., having smooth, gray bark and needles in bundles of two.
  • stringpiece — a long, usually horizontal piece of timber, beam, etc., for strengthening, connecting, or supporting a framework.
  • superceding — supersede.
  • superinduce — to bring in or induce as an added feature, circumstance, etc.; superimpose.
  • superinfect — to infect further with an additional infection
  • supersonics — the branch of science that deals with supersonic phenomena.
  • transpierce — to pierce through; penetrate; pass through.
  • unisotropic — Physics. of equal physical properties along all axes. Compare anisotropic (def 1).
  • unpractised — not trained or skilled; inexpert: an unpracticed actor.
  • uranoscopid — any fish of the family Uranoscopidae, comprising the stargazers.
  • watchspring — the main spring inside a watch
  • xeriscaping — environmental design of residential and park land using various methods for minimizing the need for water use.
  • zincographs — Plural form of zincograph.
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