11-letter words containing i, n, s, p
- surgeonship — the position or responsibility of a surgeon
- surplussing — something that remains above what is used or needed.
- suspendible — to hang by attachment to something above: to suspend a chandelier from the ceiling.
- suspensible — capable of being suspended.
- suspicional — of or relating to suspicion, especially morbid or insane suspicions.
- suspiration — a long, deep sigh.
- swan-upping — the taking up of young swans to mark them with nicks on the beak for identification.
- swing space — a temporary working environment, used esp while renovations are being carried out
- sword-point — the point of a sword
- sycophantic — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- symphonious — harmonious; in harmonious agreement or accord.
- 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
- synthespian — a computer-generated image of a film actor, esp used in place of the real actor when shooting special effects or stunts
- taphonomist — a specialist in taphonomy
- technopolis — a society with a concentration of technology-based businesses or an emphasis on technology
- telephonist — a telephone switchboard operator.
- telescoping — an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly; the other form (reflecting telescope) has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed. Compare radio telescope.
- tennis camp — a camp that people go to in order to play and be taught tennis
- tertianship — (in the Jesuit order) a period of strict discipline before the taking of final vows, beginning one or two years after ordination.
- thanatopsis — a view or contemplation of death.
- the spanish — Spaniards collectively
- tin pyrites — stannite.
- tonic spasm — Pathology. a sudden, abnormal, involuntary muscular contraction, consisting of a continued muscular contraction (tonic spasm) or of a series of alternating muscular contractions and relaxations (clonic spasm)
- top slicing — mining of thick orebodies in a series of stopes from top to bottom, the roof being caved with its timbers as each stope is exhausted.
- topdressing — an application of fertiliser to soil
- torpedinous — of, relating to, or resembling a torpedo
- townscaping — the act of designing a town
- traineeship — the state or position of being a trainee.
- transalpine — situated beyond the Alps, especially toward the north as viewed from Italy.
- transhipper — a person who tranships
- transphobia — unreasoning hostility, aversion, etc., toward transgender people.
- transpierce — to pierce through; penetrate; pass through.
- transpiring — to occur; happen; take place.
- transposing — the act of transposing
- tripersonal — consisting of or existing in three persons, as the Godhead.
- tropomyosin — a protein in muscle tissue that works with troponin to control the process by which actin and myosin interact to produce muscle contraction
- trypsinogen — a precursor of trypsin that is secreted by the pancreas and is activated to trypsin in the small intestine.
- turing plus — Systems programming language, a concurrent descendant of Turing. Available from Holt Software Assocs, Toronto <[email protected]>.
- typecasting — the practice of casting an actor repeatedly in the same kind of role, esp because of his or physical appearance or previous success in such roles
- typesetting — the process or action of setting an article, book, or other printed matter into type.
- typicalness — of the nature of or serving as a type or representative specimen.
- unapostolic — not apostolic; not related to or characteristic of the early Christian apostles or their subsequent apostles
- unaspirated — Phonetics. to articulate (a speech sound, especially a stop) so as to produce an audible puff of breath, as with the first t of total, the second t being unaspirated. to articulate (the beginning of a word or syllable) with an h -sound, as in which, pronounced (hwich), or hitch as opposed to witch or itch.
- undeposited — to place for safekeeping or in trust, especially in a bank account: He deposited his paycheck every Friday.
- underpraise — to praise to a lesser degree or extent than the circumstances warrant.
- undespoiled — (of nature, land, etc.) not damaged or despoiled; pristine
- undispensed — not dispensed; not distributed or given out
- undisplaced — lacking a home, country, etc.