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11-letter words containing p, l, e, n, t, o

  • pulveration — the reduction of something to powder
  • replication — a reply; answer.
  • robot plane — an unmanned plane
  • rope-length — a length of standard climbing rope, normally 50–60m
  • silverpoint — a technique of drawing with a silver stylus on specially prepared paper.
  • sleep on it — contemplate sth overnight
  • soft pencil — a type of pencil that contains a thicker, oilier and darker form of graphite
  • speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
  • spleenstone — a stone which was supposed to cure maladies of the spleen
  • splenectomy — excision or removal of the spleen.
  • splint bone — one of the rudimentary, splintlike metacarpal or metatarsal bones of the horse or some allied animal, one on each side of the back of each cannon bone.
  • steppenwolf — a novel (1927) by Hermann Hesse.
  • stone plant — living stones.
  • strandloper — a member of an extinct tribe of Khoikhoi or Bushmen who lived on seafood gathered on the beaches of southern Africa
  • teaspoonful — the amount a teaspoon can hold.
  • technophile — a person who loves or is enthusiastic about advanced technology.
  • technopolis — a society with a concentration of technology-based businesses or an emphasis on technology
  • telephoning — an apparatus, system, or process for transmission of sound or speech to a distant point, especially by an electric device.
  • telephonist — a telephone switchboard operator.
  • telescoping — an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly; the other form (reflecting telescope) has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed. Compare radio telescope.
  • the dolphin — the constellation Delphinus
  • thorn apple — any poisonous plant belonging to the genus Datura, of the nightshade family, the species of which bear capsules covered with prickly spines, especially the jimson weed, D. stramonium.
  • townspeople — residents of a town
  • tripersonal — consisting of or existing in three persons, as the Godhead.
  • triple bond — a chemical linkage consisting of three covalent bonds between two atoms of a molecule, represented in chemical formulas by three lines or six dots, as CH≡CH or CH⋮⋮CH.
  • unadoptable — (of children or animals) not able to be adopted or placed in a home
  • uncompleted — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
  • unexploited — to utilize, especially for profit; turn to practical account: to exploit a business opportunity.
  • unipetalous — having only one petal.
  • unpopulated — (of a place) with no people living there
  • unstoppable — that cannot be stopped or surpassed; unbeatable: an unstoppable ball team.
  • vowel point — any of a group of auxiliary symbols, as small lines and dots, placed above or below consonant symbols to indicate vowels in a writing system, as that of Hebrew or Arabic, in which vowels are otherwise not written.
  • xenoplastic — involving distantly related individuals
  • yield point — the stress at which an elastic material under increasing stress ceases to behave elastically; under conditions of tensile strength the elongation is no longer proportional to the increase in stress
  • zooplankter — an individual animal or animallike organism in plankton.
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