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11-letter words containing p, e, r, s, t

  • sponge tree — huisache.
  • spore fruit — a spore-bearing structure, as an ascoscarp; sporocarp.
  • spore print — the pattern produced by placing the cap of a mushroom on a piece of paper and allowing the spores to fall
  • sports desk — the editorial section of a newspaper, television or radio programme, etc that deals with sports news
  • sports page — newspaper page carrying sports results
  • sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation
  • spot market — a market in which commodities, as grain, gold, or crude oil, are dealt in for cash and immediate delivery (distinguished from futures market).
  • spot strike — a labor strike by a local branch of a union.
  • spot survey — a survey taken immediately and at random
  • spotted ray — any of various species of ray with irregular markings on the back
  • spreadsheet — Accounting. a worksheet that is arranged in the manner of a mathematical matrix and contains a multicolumn analysis of related entries for easy reference on a single sheet.
  • sprezzatura — effortlessness or ease, esp. in art or literature; careless grace; nonchalance
  • sprightless — without any spirit or liveliness
  • spring rate — The spring rate is a measurement of the amount of force needed to compress a spring a particular distance.
  • spring tide — the large rise and fall of the tide at or soon after the new or the full moon.
  • springsteen — Bruce. born 1949, US rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist. His albums include Born to Run (1975), Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978), Born in the USA (1984), The Ghost of Tom Joad (1995), The Rising (2002), Magic (2007), and Wrecking Ball (2012)
  • springwater — water from a spring
  • sprite crab — ghost crab.
  • st. peter's — a basilica in Vatican City: dome designed by Michelangelo.
  • standpatter — a person who refuses to consider or accept change.
  • star-shaped — of the shape of or like a star.
  • stauroscope — an optical instrument for studying the crystal structure of minerals under polarized light
  • stearoptene — the oxygenated solid part of an essential oil (opposed to eleoptene).
  • stench trap — a trap in a sewer that by means of a water seal prevents the upward passage of foul-smelling gases
  • stenography — the art of writing in shorthand.
  • step reebok — a set of aerobic exercises designed to improve the cardiovascular system, which consists of stepping on and off a special box of adjustable height
  • step rocket — a multistage rocket that discards burned-out stages.
  • step-parent — a stepfather or stepmother.
  • stepanakert — a city in and the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, within Azerbaijan.
  • stepbrother — one's stepfather's son or stepmother's son by a previous marriage.
  • stereograph — a single or double picture for a stereoscope.
  • stereophony — the state or condition of being stereophonic.
  • stereoptics — the branch of stereoscopy that is concerned with optics
  • stereoscope — an optical instrument through which two pictures of the same object, taken from slightly different points of view, are viewed, one by each eye, producing the effect of a single picture of the object, with the appearance of depth or relief.
  • stereoscopy — the study of the stereoscope and its techniques.
  • stereotyped — reproduced in or by stereotype plates.
  • stereotypes — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
  • stereotypic — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
  • stevengraph — a small picture woven in colored silk thread: introduced in 1879 and mass-produced on a Jacquard-type loom.
  • stewardship — the position and duties of a steward, a person who acts as the surrogate of another or others, especially by managing property, financial affairs, an estate, etc.
  • stipendiary — receiving a stipend; performing services for regular pay.
  • stock power — a power of attorney permitting a person other than the owner of stock in a corporation to transfer the title of ownership to a third party.
  • stockkeeper — a person responsible for inventorying and monitoring stock levels
  • stop street — a street at the intersections of which all traffic must stop before continuing.
  • storekeeper — a person who owns a store.
  • strandloper — a member of an extinct tribe of Khoikhoi or Bushmen who lived on seafood gathered on the beaches of southern Africa
  • strap hinge — a hinge having a flap, especially a long one, attached to one face of a door or the like.
  • strap-hinge — a hinge having a flap, especially a long one, attached to one face of a door or the like.
  • straphanger — a passenger who stands in a crowded bus or subway train and holds onto a strap or other support suspended from above.
  • stratopause — the boundary or transition layer between the stratosphere and mesosphere.
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