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11-letter words containing p, i, n, e

  • saprolegnia — a variety of fungus
  • scatter pin — a woman's small ornamental pin, usually worn with other similar pins on a dress, suit jacket, etc.
  • scopolamine — a colorless, syrupy, water-soluble alkaloid, C 1 7 H 2 1 NO 4 , obtained from certain plants of the nightshade family, used chiefly as a sedative and mydriatic and to alleviate the symptoms of motion sickness.
  • scorpaenoid — resembling or related to the family Scorpaenidae.
  • scotch pine — a pine, Pinus sylvestris, of Eurasia, having a reddish trunk and twisted, bluish-green needles.
  • scrappiness — made up of scraps or of odds and ends; fragmentary; disconnected.
  • sea captain — the master of a seagoing vessel.
  • sempiternal — everlasting; eternal.
  • sempiternum — a type of durable woollen fabric popular in the 17th century
  • sempstering — the profession of being a tailor
  • senatorship — the office or position of a senator
  • senior prom — a formal dance or gathering of high school students held at the end of the senior year
  • septenarius — a verse consisting of seven feet, usually printed in two lines: used especially in Latin poems.
  • septentrion — Obsolete. the north.
  • septic tank — a tank in which solid organic sewage is decomposed and purified by anaerobic bacteria.
  • septivalent — having a valence of seven; heptavalent.
  • serendipity — an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.
  • serpentinic — of, relating to, or containing the mineral serpentine
  • serpentlike — resembling a serpent
  • serpiginous — (formerly) a creeping or spreading skin disease, as ringworm.
  • sesquiplane — a biplane having one wing with not more than half the surface area of the other wing.
  • seven pines — Fair Oaks (def 1).
  • shepherding — a person who herds, tends, and guards sheep.
  • shine up to — to give forth or glow with light; shed or cast light.
  • shinplaster — a plaster for the shin or leg.
  • shopkeeping — a retail merchant or tradesman; a person who owns or operates a small store or shop.
  • sideropenia — a lack of iron in the body
  • sign-posted — a post bearing a sign that gives information or guidance.
  • silverpoint — a technique of drawing with a silver stylus on specially prepared paper.
  • simon peter — Peter (def 1).
  • singaporean — an island on the Strait of Singapore, off the S tip of the Malay Peninsula.
  • 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.
  • single whip — an instrument for striking, as in driving animals or in punishing, typically consisting of a lash or other flexible part with a more rigid handle.
  • single-step — to perform a single instruction on (a program), generally under the control of a debug program
  • six-pointer — a football match between two teams in similar positions in the league table, considered as being worth six points as it not only gains the winning team three points but denies three points to the losing team
  • sleep on it — contemplate sth overnight
  • smoke point — heat at which oil gives off smoke
  • snail-paced — slow of pace or motion, like a snail; sluggish.
  • sniperscope — a snooperscope designed for attaching to a rifle or carbine.
  • soft pencil — a type of pencil that contains a thicker, oilier and darker form of graphite
  • sopping wet — soaked, dripping
  • spacefaring — space travel
  • spaghettini — pasta in the form of long thin strings
  • spec cint92 — (benchmark)   A benchmark suite from SPEC, which contains six benchmarks in C performing integer computations. They can be used to estimate the performance of CPU, memory system, and compiler code generation. The individual programs are Logic Design (2x), Interpreter, Data Compression, Spreadsheet. The approximate size of the suite is 85500 lines of source code without comments. The benchmark suite can be used either for speed measurement, resulting in SPEC ratios, or for throughput measurement, resulting in SPEC rates
  • speculating — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
  • speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
  • speedcoding — (language)   A pseudocode interpreter for mathematics on IBM 701 and IBM 650 written by John Backus in 1953.
  • spellbinder — a person or thing that spellbinds, especially a powerful speaker who can captivate an audience.
  • spendthrift — a person who spends possessions or money extravagantly or wastefully; prodigal.
  • spermatoxin — a substance toxic to spermatozoa.
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