11-letter words containing i, s, o, m, r, p
- profeminist — advocating social, political, legal, and economic rights for women equal to those of men.
- prognathism — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- progressism — the philosophy of a progressist
- promiscuity — the state of being promiscuous.
- promiscuous — characterized by or involving indiscriminate mingling or association, especially having sexual relations with a number of partners on a casual basis.
- promiseless — without promise
- promisingly — giving favorable promise; likely to turn out well: a promising young man; a promising situation.
- prompt side — the part of the stage that in the U.S. is to the right and in Britain to the left as one faces the audience. Abbreviation: P.S.
- 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.
- proselytism — the act or fact of becoming a proselyte; conversion.
- prostomiate — having a prostomium.
- protagonism — the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.
- proximities — nearness in place, time, order, occurrence, or relation.
- pseudoprime — A backgammon prime (six consecutive occupied points) with one point missing. This term is an esoteric pun derived from a mathematical method that, rather than determining precisely whether a number is prime (has no divisors), uses a statistical technique to decide whether the number is "probably" prime. A number that passes this test is called a pseudoprime. The hacker backgammon usage stems from the idea that a pseudoprime is almost as good as a prime: it does the job of a prime until proven otherwise, and that probably won't happen.
- rheotropism — the effect of a current of water upon the direction of plant growth.
- rompishness — the state or condition of being rompish
- scalpriform — chisel-shaped, as the incisors of certain rodents.
- scriptorium — a room, as in a monastery, library, or other institution, where manuscripts are stored, read, or copied.
- scrumptious — very pleasing, especially to the senses; delectable; splendid: a scrumptious casserole; a scrumptious satin gown.
- seismograph — any of various instruments for measuring and recording the vibrations of earthquakes.
- semipopular — relatively popular; quite popular
- senior prom — a formal dance or gathering of high school students held at the end of the senior year
- simon peter — Peter (def 1).
- soroptimist — a member of an international association of professional or executive businesswomen (Soroptimist Club) devoted primarily to welfare work.
- spermatoxic — (of a substance) toxic to spermatozoa.
- spermatoxin — a substance toxic to spermatozoa.
- spermophile — any of various burrowing rodents of the squirrel family, especially of the genus Spermophilus (or Citellus), sometimes sufficiently numerous to do much damage to crops, as the ground squirrels and susliks.
- spermotoxic — (of a substance) toxic to spermatozoa.
- spermotoxin — a substance toxic to spermatozoa.
- spinsterdom — the state of being a spinster
- spiraliform — having or resembling spiral lines
- spiroplasma — any of numerous bacteria of the genus Spiroplasma that have no cell walls or flagella and are parasitic in plants and arthropods.
- sporogonium — the sporangium of mosses and liverworts.
- stasimorphy — structural modification by arrested development
- stipitiform — having the form of a stipe.
- stipuliform — shaped like a stipule.
- superimpose — to impose, place, or set over, above, or on something else.
- symposiarch — the president, director, or master of a symposium.
- trimorphism — Zoology. the occurrence of three forms distinct in structure, coloration, etc., among animals of the same species.
- triptolemus — a favorite of Demeter and the inventor of the plow and patron of agriculture, connected with the Eleusinian mysteries.
- trispermous — having three seeds.
- tropomyosin — a protein in muscle tissue that works with troponin to control the process by which actin and myosin interact to produce muscle contraction
- unpromising — unlikely to be favorable or successful, as the weather, a situation, or a career.
- workmanship — the art or skill of a workman or workwoman.
- xerophytism — (botany) The adaptation of plants to habitats where water is scarce.
- zoomorphism — zoomorphic representation, as in ornament.