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11-letter words containing p, i, s, c, e

  • opeidoscope — an instrument which represents sound visually
  • open switch — (IBM, probably from railways) An unresolved question, issue, or problem.
  • ophicleides — Plural form of ophicleide.
  • 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.
  • osteopathic — Of or pertaining to osteopathy or osteopathic medicine.
  • osteophytic — a small osseous excrescence or outgrowth on bone.
  • overprecise — excessively precise
  • 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.
  • palmatisect — (of leaves) having palmate veins and lobes split almost to the base of the blade.
  • 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.
  • parascenium — either of two wings flanking and extending forward from the skene of an ancient Greek theater.
  • parascience — the study of subjects that are outside the scope of traditional science because they cannot be explained by accepted scientific theory or tested by conventional scientific methods
  • parasuicide — the deliberate infliction of injury on oneself or the taking of a drug overdose as an attempt at suicide which may not be intended to be successful
  • paresthetic — an abnormal sensation, as prickling, itching, etc.
  • pasticheuse — a woman who makes or composes a pastiche.
  • patsy cline — Patsy (Virginia Patterson Hensley) 1932–63, U.S. country singer.
  • peckishness — the state or condition of being peckish
  • pedanticise — to be pedantic
  • pedanticism — pedantry.
  • pediculosis — the state of being infested with lice.
  • pediococcus — any of several spherical, facultatively anaerobic bacteria of the genus Pediococcus, producing acid and clouding in beer and wort.
  • pedodontics — the branch of dentistry dealing with the care and treatment of children's teeth.
  • pencil case — container for writing implements
  • perceptions — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
  • perichylous — (of a plant) having water-storing tissue outside the green tissue
  • perigastric — located near or around the gastric system (predominantly the stomach)
  • peristaltic — of, relating to, or resembling peristalsis.
  • persecution — the act of persecuting.
  • persecutive — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
  • persian cat — a long-haired variety of the domestic cat, originally raised in Persia and Afghanistan.
  • persichetti — Vincent, 1915–87, U.S. composer.
  • persistence — the act or fact of persisting.
  • persistency — the act or fact of persisting.
  • persnickety — overparticular; fussy.
  • perspective — a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface. Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.
  • perspicuity — clearness or lucidity, as of a statement.
  • perspicuous — clearly expressed or presented; lucid.
  • persulfuric — denoting a type of acid
  • pescatarian — a person whose diet is mostly vegetarian but includes fish and seafood.
  • pescetarian — a person whose diet is mostly vegetarian but includes fish and seafood.
  • pessimistic — pertaining to or characterized by pessimism or the tendency to expect only bad outcomes; gloomy; joyless; unhopeful: His pessimistic outlook kept him from applying for jobs for which he was perfectly qualified.
  • petrarchism — the poetic style introduced by Petrarch and characteristic of his work, marked by complex grammatical structure, elaborate conceits, and conventionalized diction.
  • petrarchist — a person who imitates the literary style employed by Petrarch, especially the poets of the English Renaissance who employed the Petrarchan sonnet style.
  • pheneticist — a person who makes classifications in the field of biology according to phenetic criteria
  • philoctetes — Classical Mythology. a noted archer and squire of Hercules. Bitten by a snake and abandoned on an island because of his festering wound, he was at length brought by the Greeks to Troy, where he recovered and later killed Paris.
  • phonematics — phonemics.
  • phonetastic — (communications)   A CTI product from Callware. Phonetastic employs if-then rules and customer records to tell those receiving calls who is calling (based on ANI and DNIS) and to determine how the call should be routed, e.g. to a certain sales representative or to the general sales department; receive high-priority treatment; receive a fax-back, etc.
  • phoneticism — a phonetic scheme of writing
  • physicalise — to express in physical terms; give form or shape to: The dancers physicalized the mood of the music.
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