11-letter words containing i, s, o, p, t, e
- inspections — Plural form of inspection.
- interlopers — Plural form of interloper.
- interposing — Present participle of interpose.
- invert soap — cationic detergent.
- isometropia — equality of refraction in the two eyes of an individual.
- isospectral — (mathematics) Having the same spectrum.
- iteroparous — (of a plant) producing flowers and fruit more than once (usually many times) before dying
- josephinite — a mineral alloy of nickel and iron
- kinetoplast — A mass of mitochondrial DNA lying close to the nucleus in some flagellate protozoa.
- kinetoscope — an early motion-picture device, invented by Edison, in which the film passed behind a peephole for viewing by a single viewer.
- knifepoints — Plural form of knifepoint.
- leptospiral — relating to, caused by, or characteristic of leptospires
- lister-plow — Also called lister plow, middlebreaker, middlebuster. a plow with a double moldboard, used to prepare the ground for planting by producing furrows and ridges.
- lithophytes — Plural form of lithophyte.
- lithosphere — the solid portion of the earth (distinguished from atmosphere, hydrosphere).
- liver spots — a form of chloasma in which irregularly shaped light-brown spots occur on the skin.
- lost pleiad — See under Pleiades (def 1).
- megaphonist — Someone who uses a megaphone.
- mesopotamia — an ancient region in W Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers: now part of Iraq.
- mesotrophic — (of freshwater lakes) containing medium levels of nutrients
- metaphorist — a creator or user of metaphors
- metapodials — Plural form of metapodial.
- microphytes — Plural form of microphyte.
- miphiboseth — Mephibosheth.
- misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
- misreported — Simple past tense and past participle of misreport.
- monophysite — a person who maintains that Christ has one nature, partly divine and partly human.
- most-lupine — pertaining to or resembling the wolf.
- mother ship — a vessel or craft that services others operating far from a home port or center.
- motherships — Plural form of mothership.
- mount siple — a mountain in Antarctica, on the coast of Byrd Land. Height: 3100 m (10 171 ft)
- mouthpieces — Plural form of mouthpiece.
- multiperson — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
- mythopoesis — Creation of myth.
- nemophilist — (rare) One who is fond of forests or forest scenery; a haunter of the woods.
- neopopulist — pertaining to a revival of populism, especially a sophisticated form appealing to commonplace values and prejudices.
- nephroliths — a renal calculus; kidney stone.
- neutrophils — Plural form of neutrophil.
- nightscopes — Plural form of nightscope.
- nippleworts — Plural form of nipplewort.
- nociceptors — Plural form of nociceptor.
- nondescript — of no recognized, definite, or particular type or kind: a nondescript novel; a nondescript color.
- nonpositive — (of a real number) less than or equal to zero.
- object lisp — (language) An object-oriented Lisp developed by Lisp Machines Inc. (LMI) in about 1987. Object Lisp was based on nested closures and operator shadowing. Several competing object-orientated extensions to Lisp were around at the time, such as Flavors, in use by Symbolics; Common Objects, developed by Hewlett-Packard; and CommonLoops in use by Xerox. LMI submitted the specification as a candidate for an object-oriented standard for Common Lisp, but it was defeated in favour of CLOS.
- oenophilist — a person who enjoys wines, usually as a connoisseur.
- omnipresent — present everywhere at the same time: the omnipresent God.
- on the piss — drinking alcohol, esp in large quantities
- on the spin — one after another
- open string — a staircase string whose top follows the profile of the steps in such a way that the treads project beyond its outer face.
- open switch — (IBM, probably from railways) An unresolved question, issue, or problem.