11-letter words containing p, a, t, i, s
- put on airs — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- pyroclastic — composed chiefly of fragments of volcanic origin, as agglomerate, tuff, and certain other rocks; volcaniclastic.
- reparations — the making of amends for wrong or injury done: reparation for an injustice.
- respiration — the act of respiring; inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing.
- respiratory — pertaining to or serving for respiration: respiratory disease.
- retail shop — a shop which sells goods to individual customers
- retinispora — any member of the genus Retinispora, of conifers which grow in the east of Asia and in the east and west of North America
- rhinoplasty — plastic surgery of the nose.
- rupes altai — a mountain range in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 315 miles (507 km) long.
- sales pitch — promotional talk
- salpingitis — inflammation of a salpinx.
- saprobiotic — saprobic
- sapropelite — a foul-smelling mud
- saprophytic — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- saxophonist — musician who plays saxophone
- scatter pin — a woman's small ornamental pin, usually worn with other similar pins on a dress, suit jacket, etc.
- scriptorial — of or relating to a scriptorium
- scyphistoma — a stage in the life cycle of a jellyfish or other scyphozoan when it is fixed in place and reproduces asexually to produce free-swimming medusas.
- sea captain — the master of a seagoing vessel.
- seepage pit — a pit that is lined with a porous, mortarless masonry wall in which effluent from a septic tank is collected for gradual seepage into the ground, sometimes used as a substitute for a drainfield.
- semipalmate — partially or imperfectly palmate, as a bird's foot; half-webbed.
- semiplastic — imperfectly plastic; in a state between rigidity and plasticity.
- semiprivate — having some degree of privacy but not fully private, as a hospital room with fewer beds than a ward.
- sempiternal — everlasting; eternal.
- senatorship — the office or position of a senator
- septemviral — of or relating to septemvirs or a septemvirate.
- septenarius — a verse consisting of seven feet, usually printed in two lines: used especially in Latin poems.
- septic tank — a tank in which solid organic sewage is decomposed and purified by anaerobic bacteria.
- septicaemia — the invasion and persistence of pathogenic bacteria in the blood-stream.
- septifragal — (of a capsule) dehiscing by breaking away from the partitions but remaining attached to the common axis; dehiscing at the valves or backs of the carpels but leaving the septa intact.
- septivalent — having a valence of seven; heptavalent.
- serial port — A serial port on a computer is a place where you can connect the computer to a device such as a modem or a mouse.
- shinplaster — a plaster for the shin or leg.
- ship's boat — a boat for communication between ship and shore
- single tape — a ribbon of material, usually with a plastic base, coated on one side (single tape) or both sides (double tape) with a substance containing iron oxide, to make it sensitive to impulses from an electromagnet: used to record sound, images, data, etc.
- sir patrick — Norman Bel [bel] /bɛl/ (Show IPA), 1893–1958, U.S. industrial and stage designer and architect.
- skeptically — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
- skip tracer — an investigator whose job is to locate missing persons, especially debtors.
- small print — text typewritten in a small-sized font
- sociopathic — a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
- sophistical — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
- spaceflight — the flying of manned or unmanned spacecraft into or in outer space.
- spaghettini — pasta in the form of long thin strings
- spanakopita — a baked dish consisting of spinach, feta cheese, eggs, and scallions enclosed in layers of phyllo.
- sparagmatic — denoting a type of Precambrian rock found in Scandinavia
- spasmolytic — of or noting spasmolysis.
- spastically — Pathology. pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by spasm, especially tonic spasm.
- special act — a legislative act that applies only to specific persons or to a specific area.
- specialties — a special or distinctive quality, mark, state, or condition.
- specificate — a thing which is specified