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11-letter words containing o, n, e, s, p, a

  • impersonate — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
  • importances — the quality or state of being important; consequence; significance.
  • in personam — (of a judicial act) directed against a specific person or persons
  • incompassed — Simple past tense and past participle of incompass.
  • invert soap — cationic detergent.
  • keogh plans — a pension plan for an unincorporated business entity or self-employed person.
  • kinetoplast — A mass of mitochondrial DNA lying close to the nucleus in some flagellate protozoa.
  • knoop scale — a scale of hardness based on the indentation made in the material to be tested by a diamond point.
  • leap second — Coordinated Universal Time
  • leopardskin — the skin of a leopard
  • lesson plan — outline of teaching session
  • mailpersons — Plural form of mailperson.
  • marksperson — A marksman or markswoman.
  • mecopterans — Plural form of mecopteran.
  • megaphonist — Someone who uses a megaphone.
  • memory span — the capacity of short-term memory, usually between 5 and 10 items
  • mentoplasty — plastic surgery to correct a functional or cosmetic deformity of the chin.
  • metanephros — one of the three embryonic excretory organs of higher vertebrates, becoming the permanent and functional kidney.
  • minneapolis — a city in SE Minnesota, on the Mississippi.
  • misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
  • nanospheres — Plural form of nanosphere.
  • neap season — the time of year when either of the two tides that occur at the first or last quarter of the moon when the tide-generating forces of the sun and moon oppose each other and produce the smallest rise and fall in tidal level
  • neopaganism — a 20th-century revival of interest in the worship of nature, fertility, etc., as represented by various deities.
  • neuroplasty — Any surgery to repair nerve tissue.
  • nonpersonal — Not personal.
  • nonspeaking — the act, utterance, or discourse of a person who speaks.
  • nonspecular — that reflects light diffusely and evenly over the hemisphere surrounding the reflective surface; diffuse
  • nosy parker — a prying person
  • noun phrase — a construction that functions syntactically as a noun, consisting of a noun and any modifiers, as all the men in the room who are reading books, or of a noun substitute, as a pronoun.
  • nucleoplasm — the protoplasm of the nucleus of a cell.
  • occupancies — Plural form of occupancy.
  • old persian — an ancient West Iranian language attested by cuneiform inscriptions. Abbreviation: OPers.
  • opalescence — exhibiting a play of colors like that of the opal.
  • open season — a specific season or time of year when it is legal to catch or hunt for fish or game protected at all other times by the law.
  • open sesame — any marvelously effective means for bringing about a desired result: Wealth is the open sesame to happiness.
  • open stance — a batting stance in which the front foot is farther from the inside of the batter's box than the back foot.
  • opinionates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of opinionate.
  • outpatients — Plural form of outpatient.
  • paint horse — paint (def 6).
  • panchreston — a proposed explanation intended to address a complex problem by trying to account for all possible contingencies but typically proving to be too broadly conceived and therefore oversimplified to be of any practical use.
  • panel house — a brothel having rooms with secret entrances, as sliding panels, for admitting panel thieves.
  • paperperson — a person who delivers newspapers to customers door to door.
  • paranephros — the adrenal gland
  • parasensory — extrasensory.
  • parishioner — one of the community or inhabitants of a parish.
  • passionless — not feeling or moved by passion; cold or unemotional; calm or detached.
  • passiontide — the two-week period from Passion Sunday to Holy Saturday.
  • paternoster — a molding having the form of a row of pearls.
  • patter song — a comic song depending for its humorous effect on rapid enunciation of the words, occurring most commonly in comic opera and operetta.
  • peach stone — the stone in the centre of the fruit the peach
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