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

  • physiognomy — the face or countenance, especially when considered as an index to the character: a fierce physiognomy.
  • piano music — printed music intended to be played on the piano
  • piano stool — adjustable stool used by pianist
  • 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
  • pink salmon — a small Pacific salmon, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, distinguished by its small scales and long anal fin and by the bright red spawning coloration of males, occurring from California to Alaska and in waters of Japan: fished commercially and for sport.
  • pinocytoses — (of a cell) to take within by means of pinocytosis.
  • pinocytosis — the transport of fluid into a cell by means of local infoldings by the cell membrane so that a tiny vesicle or sac forms around each droplet, which is then taken into the interior of the cytoplasm.
  • piss around — If you say that someone pisses around or pisses about, you mean they waste a lot of time doing unimportant things.
  • piston land — A piston land is a raised area of a piston between piston rings.
  • piston pump — A piston pump is a pump which moves fluid by the movement up and down of a disk or short cylinder inside a tube.
  • piston ring — a metallic ring, usually one of a series, and split so as to be expansible, placed around a piston in order to maintain a tight fit, as inside the cylinder of an engine.
  • piston slap — the characteristic sound of a seriously worn piston in a cylinder (usually of the engine of a motor car)
  • pitchperson — a pitchman or pitchwoman
  • plainstones — the pavement or a paved area in a town or city
  • plasminogen — the blood substance that when activated forms plasmin.
  • playstation — (games, hardware)   The leading family of games consoles, from Sony Corporation consisting of the original Playstation (PS1) and the Playstation 2 (PS2). The basic Playstations consist of a small box containing the processor and a DVD reader, with video outputs to connect to a TV, sockets for two game controllers, and a socket for one or two memory cards. The PS2 also has USB sockets. The PS2 can run PS1 software because the PS2's I/O processor is the same as the PS1's CPU.
  • 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.
  • plutonomist — a person who studies or has expertise in plutonomy
  • pneumonitis — inflammation of the lung caused by a virus or exposure to irritating substances.
  • pointillism — a theory and technique developed by the neo-impressionists, based on the principle that juxtaposed dots of pure color, as blue and yellow, are optically mixed into the resulting hue, as green, by the viewer.
  • 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.
  • poison pill — a pellet of a quick-acting poison, as cyanide, for a spy to carry in order to commit suicide when faced with capture or torture.
  • polyandrist — a woman who practices or favors polyandry.
  • polygenesis — origin from more than one ancestral species or line.
  • polyphonist — a musical composer of or theorist in polyphony
  • ponderosity — of great weight; heavy; massive.
  • pontificals — of, relating to, or characteristic of a pontiff; papal.
  • porriginous — pertaining to or designating porrigo
  • positioning — condition with reference to place; location; situation.
  • positronium — a short-lived atomic system consisting of a positron and an electron bound together.
  • possessions — wealth or property
  • postcranial — located posterior to the head.
  • postediting — the act of editing after a piece of writing has been produced or printed by a machine
  • postexilian — being or occurring subsequent to the exile of the Jews in Babylonia 597–538 b.c.
  • postlanding — occurring after a landing (of an aircraft, shuttle, etc)
  • postnuptial — subsequent to marriage: postnuptial adjustments.
  • 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).
  • postulating — to ask, demand, or claim.
  • postulation — to ask, demand, or claim.
  • posturizing — to posture; pose.
  • postweaning — of, relating to, or occurring in the period following weaning
  • potshotting — the act of taking potshots
  • 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.
  • preinvasion — occurring before an invasion
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