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

  • phonematics — phonemics.
  • phonetastic — (communications)   A CTI product from Callware. Phonetastic employs if-then rules and customer records to tell those receiving calls who is calling (based on ANI and DNIS) and to determine how the call should be routed, e.g. to a certain sales representative or to the general sales department; receive high-priority treatment; receive a fax-back, etc.
  • phoneticism — a phonetic scheme of writing
  • photosensor — a photocell used to detect light.
  • piedmontese — a native or inhabitant of Piedmont, Italy.
  • pierrefonds — a former city in S Quebec, Canada, now part of Montreal.
  • pigeon post — the use of homing pigeons to carry messages
  • pinocytoses — (of a cell) to take within by means of pinocytosis.
  • pitchperson — a pitchman or pitchwoman
  • plainstones — the pavement or a paved area in a town or city
  • plant louse — aphid.
  • plasmalogen — any of the class of phosphatides that contain an aldehyde of a fatty acid, found in heart and skeletal muscle, the brain, the liver, and in eggs.
  • plasminogen — the blood substance that when activated forms plasmin.
  • pleistocene — noting or pertaining to the epoch forming the earlier half of the Quaternary Period, beginning about two million years ago and ending 10,000 years ago, characterized by widespread glacial ice and the advent of modern humans.
  • pneumonitis — inflammation of the lung caused by a virus or exposure to irritating substances.
  • pneumostome — a breathing hole in the mantle of a gastropod.
  • poison bean — Also called bladderpod. a tall plant, Glottidium vesicaria, of the legume family, native to the southeastern U.S., having clusters of yellow flowers and pods containing highly poisonous seeds.
  • polygenesis — origin from more than one ancestral species or line.
  • polystyrene — a clear plastic or stiff foam, a polymer of styrene, used chiefly as an insulator in refrigerators and air conditioners.
  • pond-skater — any of various heteropterous insects of the family Gerrididae, esp Gerris lacustris (common pond-skater), having a slender hairy body and long hairy legs with which they skim about on the surface of ponds
  • ponderosity — of great weight; heavy; massive.
  • ponderously — of great weight; heavy; massive.
  • pope's nose — the fleshy protuberance at the posterior end of a dressed fowl, especially the tailpiece of a cooked chicken.
  • pore fungus — any fungus of the families Boletacea and Polyporaceae, bearing spores in tubes or pores.
  • port neches — a town in SE Texas.
  • possessions — wealth or property
  • post-modern — noting or pertaining to architecture of the late 20th century, appearing in the 1960s, that consciously uses complex forms, fantasy, and allusions to historic styles, in contrast to the austere forms and emphasis on utility of standard modern architecture.
  • postconcert — occurring after a concert
  • postediting — the act of editing after a piece of writing has been produced or printed by a machine
  • postel, jon — Jon Postel
  • postexilian — being or occurring subsequent to the exile of the Jews in Babylonia 597–538 b.c.
  • postponence — the act of postponing
  • postscenium — a wing on either side of the stage of an ancient Greek or Roman theatre where props could be stored and actors could prepare; a parascenium
  • posttension — (in prestressed-concrete construction) to apply tension to (reinforcing strands) after the concrete has set. Compare pretension2 (def 1).
  • postweaning — of, relating to, or occurring in the period following weaning
  • potableness — the quality of being potable or drinkable
  • powder snow — powder1 (def 3).
  • pre-notions — a preconception.
  • pre-scoring — to record the sound of (a motion picture) before filming.
  • preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
  • precisional — the state or quality of being precise.
  • precognosce — to conduct a preliminary examination of (a witness, a claim) prior to a trial
  • preconquest — of or relating to the time before the conquest of one people, region, or country by another.
  • preinvasion — occurring before an invasion
  • preposition — any member of a class of words found in many languages that are used before nouns, pronouns, or other substantives to form phrases functioning as modifiers of verbs, nouns, or adjectives, and that typically express a spatial, temporal, or other relationship, as in, on, by, to, since.
  • prescission — the action of prescinding
  • presolution — the act of solving a problem, question, etc.: The situation is approaching solution.
  • press baron — an influential newspaper publisher or owner who usually controls more than one widely circulated newspaper.
  • press money — prest money.
  • prest money — a sum of money advanced to men enlisting in the navy or the army, given to bind the bargain and as an inducement.
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