11-letter words containing p, i, e, c, r
- retinoscope — an apparatus that determines the refractive power of the eye by observing the lights and shadows on the pupil when a mirror illumines the retina; skiascope.
- retinoscopy — an objective method of determining the refractive error of an eye.
- review copy — a copy of a book sent by a publisher to a journal, newspaper, etc, to enable it to be reviewed
- riesz space — a topological space in which sets containing one point are closed.
- riot police — police armed against public disorder
- rip current — undertow (def 1).
- rock pigeon — rock dove.
- rocket ship — a rocket-propelled aircraft or spacecraft.
- rope stitch — (in embroidery) a stitch formed from the entwining of stitches.
- ropedancing — the act of dancing on a rope
- scapigerous — having a scape or leafless stalk
- scatter pin — a woman's small ornamental pin, usually worn with other similar pins on a dress, suit jacket, etc.
- scorpaenoid — resembling or related to the family Scorpaenidae.
- scrappiness — made up of scraps or of odds and ends; fragmentary; disconnected.
- scrip issue — an issue of free shares distributed pro rata to existing stockholders instead of a dividend.
- scripholder — a person who owns a scrip or scrips
- scripophile — a person who practices scripophily.
- semispheric — shaped like half a sphere; hemispheric.
- serigraphic — of or pertaining to serigraphy
- serpentinic — of, relating to, or containing the mineral serpentine
- service cap — a saucer-shaped uniform cap with a visor, standard in the U.S. Army and Air Force.
- share price — cost of financial stocks
- shipwrecked — the destruction or loss of a ship, as by sinking.
- sideroscope — an apparatus for detecting splinters of iron or steel in the eye.
- simpliciter — simply
- skip tracer — an investigator whose job is to locate missing persons, especially debtors.
- sniperscope — a snooperscope designed for attaching to a rifle or carbine.
- spacefaring — space travel
- specializer — a person who specializes in something
- spectrality — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
- specularity — the state of resembling a mirror
- speechifier — to make a speech or speeches; harangue.
- spermatoxic — (of a substance) toxic to spermatozoa.
- spermicidal — that kills sperm
- spermotoxic — (of a substance) toxic to spermatozoa.
- spice route — an ancient trade route followed by merchants, importers and exporters trading in exotic spices such as cloves and cinnamon
- spider crab — any of various crabs of the family Majidae, having long, slender legs and a comparatively small, triangular body.
- spirit cave — an archaeological site in Thailand that has produced evidence of very early plant domestication in Southeast Asia, dated c7000 b.c.
- spirochaete — any of various spiral-shaped motile bacteria of the family Spirochaetaceae, certain species, as Treponema, Leptospira, and Borrelia, being pathogenic to humans and other animals, and other species being free-living, saprophytic, or parasitic.
- spitsticker — a wood-engraving tool with a fine prow-shaped point for cutting curved lines
- sprite crab — ghost crab.
- spruce pine — a tall coniferous tree, Pinus glabra, of the southeastern U.S., having smooth, gray bark and needles in bundles of two.
- stereoptics — the branch of stereoscopy that is concerned with optics
- 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.
- stringpiece — a long, usually horizontal piece of timber, beam, etc., for strengthening, connecting, or supporting a framework.
- super-slick — very well-executed or presented
- superactive — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
- superceding — supersede.
- supercherie — deception, trickery or an instance thereof
- supercilium — the fillet above the cyma of a cornice.