11-letter words containing n, o, s, d
- postediting — the act of editing after a piece of writing has been produced or printed by a machine
- postlanding — occurring after a landing (of an aircraft, shuttle, etc)
- pound scots — pound2 (def 7).
- powder snow — powder1 (def 3).
- preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
- prison yard — a piece of enclosed ground attached to a prison, where prisoners may take exercise at certain times
- proceedings — a particular action or course or manner of action.
- productions — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
- propagandas — information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
- protandrous — (of hermaphrodite or monoecious plants) maturing the anthers before the stigma
- providences — a seaport in and the capital of Rhode Island, in the NE part, at the head of Narragansett Bay.
- provisioned — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- pseudomonad — any of various bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas
- pseudomonas — any of several rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas, certain species of which are pathogenic for plants and animals.
- pseudophone — an instrument for producing illusory auditory localization by changing the relationship between the receptor and the actual direction of the sound.
- puget sound — an arm of the Pacific, in NW Washington.
- push around — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- put down as — If you put someone or something down as a particular type of person or thing, you consider that they are that thing.
- quadrasonic — of, noting, or pertaining to the recording and reproduction of sound over four separate transmission or direct reproduction channels instead of the customary two of the stereo system: a quadraphonic recording.
- radiovision — television.
- radnorshire — a historic county in Powys, in E Wales.
- rain shadow — a region in the lee of mountains that receives less rainfall than the region windward of the mountains.
- 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.
- reconsigned — to hand over or deliver formally or officially; commit (often followed by to).
- rediffusion — act of diffusing; state of being diffused.
- redigestion — the act or process of redigesting
- reengrossed — to occupy completely, as the mind or attention; absorb: Their discussion engrossed his attention. She is engrossed in her work.
- reposedness — the quality or state of being in repose or settled
- respondence — the act of responding; response: respondence to a stimulus.
- restationed — a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
- rhinestoned — adorned with rhinestones
- robbinsdale — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
- rock island — a port in NW Illinois, on the Mississippi: government arsenal.
- rocketsonde — a telemeter for gathering data on the atmosphere at very high altitudes, carried aloft by rocket and returned to earth by parachute.
- roman shade — a window shade that, when raised, is drawn up into a series of concertina folds.
- rood screen — a screen, often of elaborate design and properly surmounted by a rood, separating the nave from the choir or chancel of a church.
- rose garden — where roses are grown
- rose window — a circular window decorated with tracery symmetrical about the center.
- rose-tinted — excessively optimistic
- ross island — an island in the W Ross Sea, off the coast of Victoria Land: part of the Ross Dependency; location of Mt. Erebus.
- round steak — a steak cut from directly above the hind leg of beef.
- run to seed — the fertilized, matured ovule of a flowering plant, containing an embryo or rudimentary plant.
- saddle horn — horn (def 19).
- saint-cloud — a city in central Minnesota, on the Mississippi.
- salvadorian — El Salvador.
- san domingo — Santo Domingo (defs 2, 3).
- san leandro — a city in W California.
- sand dollar — any of various flat, disklike sea urchins, as Mellita testudinata or Echinarachnius parma, that live on sandy bottoms off the coasts of the U.S.
- sand grouse — any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young.
- sand hopper — beach flea.