11-letter words containing o, p, s, n
- in prospect — expected, predicted
- in spite of — a malicious, usually petty, desire to harm, annoy, frustrate, or humiliate another person; bitter ill will; malice.
- in the soup — a liquid food made by boiling or simmering meat, fish, or vegetables with various added ingredients.
- incapacious — Not capacious; narrow, small, weak, or foolish.
- incompassed — Simple past tense and past participle of incompass.
- incompletes — Plural form of incomplete.
- incomposite — not composite or consisting of parts; simple; not divisible into parts
- inexplosive — not explosive; incapable of exploding or being exploded.
- inscription — something inscribed.
- inside loop — a loop during which the top of the airplane is on the inner side of the curve described by the course of flight.
- inspections — Plural form of inspection.
- inspiration — an inspiring or animating action or influence: I cannot write poetry without inspiration.
- inspirators — Plural form of inspirator.
- inspiratory — of or relating to inspiration or inhalation.
- inspissator — A heating device for thickening or congealing a liquid.
- interlopers — Plural form of interloper.
- interposing — Present participle of interpose.
- invert soap — cationic detergent.
- ionospheric — Of or pertaining to the ionosphere.
- iron sponge — sponge iron.
- isopropanol — isopropyl alcohol.
- isoxsuprine — a sympathomimetic vasodilator, C 18 H 23 NO 3 , used in certain types of peripheral vascular disease.
- janitorship — the office of janitor
- john scopes — John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
- josephinite — a mineral alloy of nickel and iron
- jumpstation — A site on the World Wide Web containing a collection of hypertext links, usually to pages on a particular topic.
- juxtaposing — to place close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.
- keogh plans — a pension plan for an unincorporated business entity or self-employed person.
- ketopentose — (carbohydrate) A pentose that is also a ketose.
- kinetoplast — A mass of mitochondrial DNA lying close to the nucleus in some flagellate protozoa.
- kinetoscope — an early motion-picture device, invented by Edison, in which the film passed behind a peephole for viewing by a single viewer.
- knifepoints — Plural form of knifepoint.
- knoop scale — a scale of hardness based on the indentation made in the material to be tested by a diamond point.
- labor pains — childbirth: contractions
- leap second — Coordinated Universal Time
- leopardskin — the skin of a leopard
- lepidosiren — a lungfish, Lepidosiren paradoxa, of the Amazon, having an eel-shaped body.
- lesson plan — outline of teaching session
- linesperson — (sports) A linesman or lineswoman.
- lipogenesis — (biochemistry) The biochemical production of fat, especially the conversion of carbohydrate into fat so that it may be stored as a long-term source of energy when food is scarce.
- liposuction — the surgical withdrawal of excess fat from local areas under the skin by means of a small incision and vacuum suctioning.
- lipotropins — Plural form of lipotropin.
- long splice — a splice for forming a united rope narrow enough to pass through a block, made by unlaying the ends of two ropes for a considerable distance, overlapping the strands so as to make pairs of one strand from each rope, unlaying one of each pair, twisting the other strand into its place in the united rope, and tucking the yarns of the unlaid strand separately into place.
- loop fusion — loop combination
- lychnoscope — lowside window.
- lymph nodes — any of the glandlike masses of tissue in the lymphatic vessels containing cells that become lymphocytes.
- lymphokines — Plural form of lymphokine.
- lymphonodus — (anatomy) lymph node.
- lyosorption — the adsorption of a liquid on a solid surface, esp of a solvent on suspended particles
- magnum opus — a great work, especially the chief work of a writer or artist: Proust's magnum opus is Remembrance of Things Past.