11-letter words containing m, p, s
- muscle pull — injury: strained muscle
- museography — The systematic description of objects in museums.
- music paper — paper ruled or printed with a stave for writing music
- mustard pot — a small pot, of glass, silver, etc, placed on the table to serve mustard
- muttonchops — The whiskers on a man's cheek when shaped like a meat chop, narrow at the top and broad and rounded at the bottom.
- my pretties — a way of addressing a group of people
- mycophagist — a fungus-eating organism.
- mycophagous — feeding on fungi.
- mycoplasmal — Of or pertaining to mycoplasma.
- mycoplasmas — Plural form of mycoplasma.
- myographist — a person who has expert knowledge of muscles
- mythopoesis — Creation of myth.
- nemophilist — (rare) One who is fond of forests or forest scenery; a haunter of the woods.
- neopaganism — a 20th-century revival of interest in the worship of nature, fertility, etc., as represented by various deities.
- neopopulism — pertaining to a revival of populism, especially a sophisticated form appealing to commonplace values and prejudices.
- neoptolemus — the son of Achilles, who slew Priam at the fall of Troy.
- nephrostome — Zoology. the ciliated opening of a nephridium into the coelom.
- nicol prism — one of a pair of prisms used to produce and analyze plane-polarized light in a polarizing microscope. Also called Nicol. Compare polarizer (def 1).
- nincompoops — Plural form of nincompoop.
- noncomposer — a person who is not a composer
- nucleoplasm — the protoplasm of the nucleus of a cell.
- nudist camp — a resort where nudism is practiced
- nympholepsy — an ecstasy supposed by the ancients to be inspired by nymphs.
- nympholepts — Plural form of nympholept.
- oarsmanship — The skill of rowing a boat.
- omnipresent — present everywhere at the same time: the omnipresent God.
- open sesame — any marvelously effective means for bringing about a desired result: Wealth is the open sesame to happiness.
- open system — a region separated from its surroundings by a boundary that admits a transfer of matter or energy across it.
- ophthalmist — an eye expert; an oculist
- opisthosoma — the abdomen of a spider or other arachnid
- opportunism — the policy or practice, as in politics, business, or one's personal affairs, of adapting actions, decisions, etc., to expediency or effectiveness regardless of the sacrifice of ethical principles.
- optometrist — a licensed professional who practices optometry.
- outperforms — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outperform.
- overimposed — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
- overimpress — to impress to an excessive degree
- overpromise — a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one: unkept political promises.
- palm desert — a town in S California, near Palm Springs.
- palm sunday — the Sunday before Easter, celebrated in commemoration of Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem.
- palmatisect — (of leaves) having palmate veins and lobes split almost to the base of the blade.
- pampelmoose — a large citrus fruit
- pan-arabism — the idea or advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the Arab nations.
- pan-atheism — the belief that because there is no God, nothing can properly be termed sacred or holy.
- pan-islamic — the idea or advocacy of a political union of all Muslim nations.
- pan-slavism — the idea or advocacy of a political union of all the Slavic peoples.
- panentheism — the belief that God is a part of the universe as well as transcending it
- panpsychism — a theory that all matter has some form of consciousness.
- panspermist — someone who advocates panspermia
- pantomimist — a person who acts in pantomime.
- parabaptism — unauthorized baptism
- parallelism — the position or relation of parallels.