11-letter words containing p, i, s, t, l
- oenophilist — a person who enjoys wines, usually as a connoisseur.
- oligopolist — A member of an oligopoly; one of a small number of sellers with undue influence over a market.
- ophiologist — the branch of herpetology dealing with snakes.
- ophthalmist — an eye expert; an oculist
- outsleeping — Present participle of outsleep.
- oxtail soup — soup made using the skinned tail of an ox
- palestinian — a native or inhabitant of Palestine.
- palk strait — a strait in the Bay of Bengal between SE India and N Sri Lanka, to the N of Adam's Bridge. 40–85 miles (64–137 km) wide.
- 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.
- 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.
- pantologist — a systematic view of all human knowledge.
- parallelist — a person who seeks or makes a comparison.
- parasitical — of, relating to, or characteristic of parasites.
- partial sum — one of a series of sums of elements of a given sequence, the first sum being the first element, the second sum being the first element added to the second element, the third sum being equal to the sum of the first three elements, and so on.
- partialness — being such in part only; not total or general; incomplete: partial blindness; a partial payment of a debt.
- particulars — of or relating to a single or specific person, thing, group, class, occasion, etc., rather than to others or all; special rather than general: one's particular interests in books.
- pastoralism — the practice of herding as the primary economic activity of a society.
- pastoralist — a grazier or land-holder raising sheep, cattle, etc, on a large scale
- pastoralize — to make pastoral or rural.
- paternalism — the system, principle, or practice of managing or governing individuals, businesses, nations, etc., in the manner of a father dealing benevolently and often intrusively with his children: The employees objected to the paternalism of the old president.
- paternalist — government: fatherly in style
- pathologies — the science or the study of the origin, nature, and course of diseases.
- pathologist — the science or the study of the origin, nature, and course of diseases.
- patientless — a person who is under medical care or treatment.
- patrologist — a student of patrology.
- patsy cline — Patsy (Virginia Patterson Hensley) 1932–63, U.S. country singer.
- pendulosity — the state or quality of being pendulous
- peninsulate — to cause (land) to become peninsular
- peristalith — a group of stones encircling a mound, dolmen, or the like.
- peristalsis — the progressive wave of contraction and relaxation of a tubular muscular system, especially the alimentary canal, by which the contents are forced through the system.
- peristaltic — of, relating to, or resembling peristalsis.
- peristylium — a peristyle.
- personalist — Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
- personality — the visible aspect of one's character as it impresses others: He has a pleasing personality.
- pestologist — a person who analyses and researches pests and how to get rid of them
- philatelist — the collecting of stamps and other postal matter as a hobby or an investment.
- philistines — (sometimes initial capital letter) a person who is lacking in or hostile or smugly indifferent to cultural values, intellectual pursuits, aesthetic refinement, etc., or is contentedly commonplace in ideas and tastes.
- phillipsite — a zeolite mineral, similar to stilbite but with potassium replacing some of the calcium.
- 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.
- philologist — the study of literary texts and of written records, the establishment of their authenticity and their original form, and the determination of their meaning.
- phitsanulok — a city in central Thailand.
- phonologist — a specialist in phonology.
- phycologist — the branch of botany dealing with algae.
- phyllotaxis — phyllotaxy.
- physicalist — a doctrine associated with logical positivism and holding that every meaningful statement, other than the necessary statements of logic and mathematics, must refer directly or indirectly to observable properties of spatiotemporal things or events.
- physicality — the physical attributes of a person, especially when overdeveloped or overemphasized.
- physiolater — somebody who worships nature
- physiolatry — the worship of nature
- piano stool — adjustable stool used by pianist