11-letter words containing i, n, s, p
- personifies — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- persorption — the deep penetration of a liquid into a highly porous solid, resulting in an intimate mixture.
- pescatarian — a person whose diet is mostly vegetarian but includes fish and seafood.
- pescetarian — a person whose diet is mostly vegetarian but includes fish and seafood.
- pet sitting — the act of caring for a pet in its own home while the owner is away.
- petitionist — a person who petitions or makes appeals or requests
- phantasiast — a person who adhered to the religious doctrine that Christ had no substantial reality
- pharyngitis — inflammation of the mucous membrane of the pharynx; sore throat.
- pheneticist — a person who makes classifications in the field of biology according to phenetic criteria
- philippians — an Epistle written by Paul to the Christian community in Philippi. Abbreviation: Phil.
- philippines — an archipelago of 7083 islands in the Pacific, SE of China: formerly (1898–1946) under the guardianship of the U.S.; now an independent republic. 114,830 sq. mi. (297,410 sq. km). Capital: Manila.
- philistines — (sometimes initial capital letter) a person who is lacking in or hostile or smugly indifferent to cultural values, intellectual pursuits, aesthetic refinement, etc., or is contentedly commonplace in ideas and tastes.
- phitsanulok — a city in central Thailand.
- 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.
- phonologist — a specialist in phonology.
- phosphonium — the positively charged group PH 4 + .
- physiciancy — the position, job, or office of physician
- physiognomy — the face or countenance, especially when considered as an index to the character: a fierce physiognomy.
- piano music — printed music intended to be played on the piano
- piano stool — adjustable stool used by pianist
- picnic site — an attractive place for picnics
- picturising — to represent in a picture, especially in a motion picture; make a picture of.
- piebaldness — having patches of black and white or of other colors; parti-colored.
- piedmontese — a native or inhabitant of Piedmont, Italy.
- pierrefonds — a former city in S Quebec, Canada, now part of Montreal.
- pigeon post — the use of homing pigeons to carry messages
- pigsticking — to hunt for wild boar, usually on horseback and using a spear.
- pine siskin — a small, North American finch, Carduelis pinus, of coniferous forests, having yellow markings on the wings and tail.
- pink salmon — a small Pacific salmon, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, distinguished by its small scales and long anal fin and by the bright red spawning coloration of males, occurring from California to Alaska and in waters of Japan: fished commercially and for sport.
- pinkishness — a pinkish quality or colouring
- pinnatisect — (of a leaf) divided in a pinnate manner.
- 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.
- pinstriping — a design, as on a fabric or surface, consisting of pinstripes: There's a surcharge if the car has pinstriping.
- pintsch gas — gas with high illuminating power made from shale oil or petroleum, used in buoys, lighthouses, and railroad cars.
- piss around — If you say that someone pisses around or pisses about, you mean they waste a lot of time doing unimportant things.
- piston land — A piston land is a raised area of a piston between piston rings.
- piston pump — A piston pump is a pump which moves fluid by the movement up and down of a disk or short cylinder inside a tube.
- piston ring — a metallic ring, usually one of a series, and split so as to be expansible, placed around a piston in order to maintain a tight fit, as inside the cylinder of an engine.
- piston slap — the characteristic sound of a seriously worn piston in a cylinder (usually of the engine of a motor car)
- pitchperson — a pitchman or pitchwoman
- plain ascii — /playn-as'kee/ flat ASCII.
- plainstanes — the pavement or a paved area in a town or city
- plainstones — the pavement or a paved area in a town or city
- planisphere — a map of half or more of the celestial sphere with a device for indicating the part of a given location visible at a given time.
- plasminogen — the blood substance that when activated forms plasmin.
- playstation — (games, hardware) The leading family of games consoles, from Sony Corporation consisting of the original Playstation (PS1) and the Playstation 2 (PS2). The basic Playstations consist of a small box containing the processor and a DVD reader, with video outputs to connect to a TV, sockets for two game controllers, and a socket for one or two memory cards. The PS2 also has USB sockets. The PS2 can run PS1 software because the PS2's I/O processor is the same as the PS1's CPU.