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

  • approaching — coming closer in time
  • approbating — Present participle of approbate.
  • approbation — Approbation is approval of something or agreement to it.
  • appropinque — to approach
  • approvingly — to speak or think favorably of; pronounce or consider agreeable or good; judge favorably: to approve the policies of the administration.
  • approximant — an articulation in which one articulator is close to another, but not sufficiently so to form a stop or a fricative.
  • apron piece — (in a staircase) a header receiving the ends of rough strings, carriage pieces, and the joists of landings.
  • arolla pine — a five-needled pine tree, Pinus cembra, found esp in mountain regions of Central Europe and yielding edible seeds
  • arsonphobia — Pyrophobia.
  • artophorion — pyx (def 1a).
  • ascriptions — Plural form of ascription.
  • asperations — Plural form of asperation.
  • aspergation — the action of sprinkling, suffusing or irrigating with water
  • aspirations — a strong desire, longing, or aim; ambition: intellectual aspirations.
  • asportation — the removal or taking away of something
  • assumptions — something taken for granted; a supposition: a correct assumption. Synonyms: presupposition; hypothesis, conjecture, guess, postulate, theory.
  • at gunpoint — If you are held at gunpoint, someone is threatening to shoot and kill you if you do not obey them.
  • atriopeptin — any of several peptide hormones that are released by the atria of the heart in response to an abnormal increase in blood volume and that modulate blood pressure and the excretion of sodium, potassium, and water. Abbreviation: ANF.
  • axanthopsia — a defect of vision in which the retina fails to respond to yellow.
  • bar-hopping — Informal. to go to a succession of bars or nightclubs, with a brief stay at each.
  • basis point — In finance, a basis point is one hundredth of a per cent (.01%).
  • behind post — one of the smaller outer posts inside which the ball must be kicked to score a behind
  • beneplacito — an indication of approval
  • bicomponent — a fibre composed of two compounds
  • bioprinting — the construction of replacement body parts using techniques developed for three-dimensional printing
  • bipartition — divided into or consisting of two parts.
  • bitmap font — a font format in which letters and symbols are stored as a pattern of dots
  • block print — a design printed by means of one or more blocks of wood or metal.
  • boatmanship — boatsmanship.
  • bon appetit — enjoy your meal
  • bonapartism — a political system resembling the rules of the Bonapartes, esp Napoleon I and Napoleon III: centralized government by a military dictator, who enjoys popular support given expression in plebiscites
  • bonapartist — an adherent of the Bonapartes or their policies.
  • bondmanship — the state of being a bondman; serfdom
  • bone spavin — a disease of the hock joint of horses in which enlargement occurs because of collected fluids (bog spavin) bony growth (bone spavin) or distention of the veins (blood spavin)
  • bontempelli — Massimo. 1878–1960, Italian dramatist, poet, novelist, and critic. His works include the play Nostra Dea (1925) and the novel The Faithful Lover (1953)
  • bonus point — an additional point in a game, a sporting competition, or any similar scheme in which points can be awarded
  • bony spavin — enlargement of the hock of a horse by a bony growth, usually caused by inflammation or injury, and often resulting in lameness
  • bookkeeping — Bookkeeping is the job or activity of keeping an accurate record of the money that is spent and received by a business or other organization.
  • boottopping — the area between the water lines of a ship when fully loaded and when unloaded.
  • bossnapping — kidnapping a company executive as part of industrial action
  • bound up in — If something is bound up in a particular form or place, it is fixed in that form or contained in that place.
  • branchiopod — any crustacean of the mainly freshwater subclass Branchiopoda, having flattened limblike appendages for swimming, feeding, and respiration. The group includes the water fleas
  • break point — a point which allows the receiving player to break the service of the server
  • broiler pan — a pan for broiling food
  • cacophonies — Plural form of cacophony.
  • cainophobia — The fear of newness and/or of things that are new.
  • calf roping — a timed rodeo event in which a mounted rider chases and lassos a calf, dismounts, and throws the calf to the ground, tying three of the animal's legs with a short length of rope.
  • call option — an option to buy a stated amount of securities at a specified price during a specified period
  • calypsonian — a performer or writer of calypsos
  • campaniform — shaped like a bell
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