11-letter words containing p, e, t, i, s
- nemophilist — (rare) One who is fond of forests or forest scenery; a haunter of the woods.
- neopopulist — pertaining to a revival of populism, especially a sophisticated form appealing to commonplace values and prejudices.
- nephroliths — a renal calculus; kidney stone.
- neutrophils — Plural form of neutrophil.
- nightscopes — Plural form of nightscope.
- nippleworts — Plural form of nipplewort.
- nociceptors — Plural form of nociceptor.
- nondescript — of no recognized, definite, or particular type or kind: a nondescript novel; a nondescript color.
- nonpositive — (of a real number) less than or equal to zero.
- object lisp — (language) An object-oriented Lisp developed by Lisp Machines Inc. (LMI) in about 1987. Object Lisp was based on nested closures and operator shadowing. Several competing object-orientated extensions to Lisp were around at the time, such as Flavors, in use by Symbolics; Common Objects, developed by Hewlett-Packard; and CommonLoops in use by Xerox. LMI submitted the specification as a candidate for an object-oriented standard for Common Lisp, but it was defeated in favour of CLOS.
- oenophilist — a person who enjoys wines, usually as a connoisseur.
- omnipresent — present everywhere at the same time: the omnipresent God.
- on the piss — drinking alcohol, esp in large quantities
- on the spin — one after another
- open string — a staircase string whose top follows the profile of the steps in such a way that the treads project beyond its outer face.
- open switch — (IBM, probably from railways) An unresolved question, issue, or problem.
- openinsight — (programming, database) The workflow-enabled Windows 95/Windows NT version of Advanced Revelation, featuring native support for Lotus Notes, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle and ODBC. OpenInsight is available from Revelation Software.
- operatories — a room or other area with special equipment and facilities, as for dental surgery, scientific experiments, or the like.
- opinionates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of opinionate.
- optometrist — a licensed professional who practices optometry.
- orthopedics — (used with a singular verb) the medical specialty concerned with correction of deformities or functional impairments of the skeletal system, especially the extremities and the spine, and associated structures, as muscles and ligaments.
- orthopedist — (used with a singular verb) the medical specialty concerned with correction of deformities or functional impairments of the skeletal system, especially the extremities and the spine, and associated structures, as muscles and ligaments.
- osteopathic — Of or pertaining to osteopathy or osteopathic medicine.
- osteophytic — a small osseous excrescence or outgrowth on bone.
- outpatients — Plural form of outpatient.
- outsleeping — Present participle of outsleep.
- outspeeding — Present participle of outspeed.
- outstripped — Simple past tense and past participle of outstrip.
- oyster pink — a delicate pinkish-white colour, sometimes with a greyish tinge
- pacesetting — a person, group, or organization that is the most progressive or successful and serves as a model to be imitated.
- paediatrics — Paediatrics is the area of medicine that is concerned with the treatment of children's illnesses.
- paint horse — paint (def 6).
- palestinian — a native or inhabitant of Palestine.
- palletising — to place (materials) upon pallets for handling or moving.
- palmatisect — (of leaves) having palmate veins and lobes split almost to the base of the blade.
- pan-atheism — the belief that because there is no God, nothing can properly be termed sacred or holy.
- panel strip — one of a number of strips of wood or metal laid upon the surface of a wall, ceiling, etc., so as to divide it into a number of broad areas, usually in order to conceal joints between sheets of composition material forming the surface.
- panentheism — the belief that God is a part of the universe as well as transcending it
- panentheist — someone who believes that God is a part of the universe as well as transcending it
- panesthesia — total awareness and perception
- panspermist — someone who advocates panspermia
- pantheistic — the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God's personality and expresses a tendency to identify God and nature.
- parallelist — a person who seeks or makes a comparison.
- parenthesis — either or both of a pair of signs () used in writing to mark off an interjected explanatory or qualifying remark, to indicate separate groupings of symbols in mathematics and symbolic logic, etc.
- paresthesia — an abnormal sensation, as prickling, itching, etc.
- paresthetic — an abnormal sensation, as prickling, itching, etc.
- partialness — being such in part only; not total or general; incomplete: partial blindness; a partial payment of a debt.
- partnership — the state or condition of being a partner; participation; association; joint interest.
- passiontide — the two-week period from Passion Sunday to Holy Saturday.
- pasteurised — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.