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11-letter words containing i, s, a, n, o, m

  • pentastomid — tongue worm.
  • pentatonism — the use of a five-tone scale.
  • personalism — Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
  • phonematics — phonemics.
  • piano music — printed music intended to be played on the piano
  • 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.
  • plasminogen — the blood substance that when activated forms plasmin.
  • preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
  • 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
  • prognathism — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
  • pronatalism — the policy or practice of encouraging the bearing of children, especially government support of a higher birthrate.
  • pronominals — Grammar. pertaining to, resembling, derived from, or containing a pronoun: “My” in “my book” is a pronominal adjective. “There” is a pronominal adverb.
  • protagonism — the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.
  • psilomelane — a common mineral consisting of a mixture of pyrolusite and other oxides of manganese, usually found in black, rounded masses: an ore of manganese.
  • pumpstation — A pumpstation is a place with pumps and equipment for pumping fluids from one place to another.
  • rationalism — the principle or habit of accepting reason as the supreme authority in matters of opinion, belief, or conduct.
  • reactionism — of, pertaining to, marked by, or favoring reaction, especially extreme conservatism or rightism in politics; opposing political or social change.
  • readmission — the act of allowing to enter; entrance granted by permission, by provision or existence of pecuniary means, or by the removal of obstacles: the admission of aliens into a country.
  • reaganomics — the economic policies put forth by the administration of President Ronald Reagan, especially as emphasizing supply-side theory.
  • regionalism — Government. the principle or system of dividing a city, state, etc., into separate administrative regions.
  • relationism — a doctrine maintaining the existence of relations between things
  • roman snail — a large edible European snail, Helix pomatia, the usual escargot of menus, erroneously thought to have been introduced to northern Europe by the Romans
  • romanticise — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
  • romanticism — romantic spirit or tendency.
  • romanticist — an adherent of romanticism in literature or art (contrasted with classicist).
  • ruminations — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
  • saint-simon — Comte de, 1760–1825, French philosopher and social scientist.
  • salinometer — an instrument for measuring the amount of salt in a solution.
  • salmon pink — salmon (defs 4, 5).
  • salon music — music of a simple, agreeable, frequently sentimental character, played usually by a small orchestra.
  • saltimbanco — a charlatan or fake
  • san domingo — Santo Domingo (defs 2, 3).
  • sardonicism — characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering: a sardonic grin.
  • 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.
  • seismonasty — a nastic movement in response to shock, esp the rapid folding of the leaflets of the sensitive plant due to changes in turgor pressure caused by vibration
  • semi-normal — conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural.
  • seminomadic — belonging or relating to an ethnic group or people who migrate seasonally and cultivate crops during periods of settlement
  • semiotician — the study of signs and symbols as elements of communicative behavior; the analysis of systems of communication, as language, gestures, or clothing.
  • showmanship — the skill or ability of a showman.
  • simon magus — Simon (defs 5, 6).
  • siphonogamy — a mode of pollination in which pollen tubes develop to facilitate the passage of male cells to eggs
  • smoking ban — the prohibition of smoking cigarettes, etc in public places
  • smoking car — smoker (def 2a).
  • socinianism — the teachings of Faustus Socinus (1539-1604), It. rationalistic religious reformer, denying the Trinity, the divinity of Christ, etc., and holding that salvation is attained solely by practicing the virtues exemplified by Christ
  • solmization — the act, process, or system of using certain syllables, especially the sol-fa syllables, to represent the tones of the scale.
  • somatogenic — developing from somatic cells.
  • somatomedin — any of various liver hormones that enhance the activity of a variety of other hormones, as somatotropin.
  • somatotonia — a personality type characterized by assertiveness and energy: said to be correlated with a mesomorph body type
  • somatotonic — a person who has a somatotonic personality
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