11-letter words containing p, o, i, r
- sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation
- spot strike — a labor strike by a local branch of a union.
- spring lock — a lock that fastens automatically by a spring.
- spring roll — an egg roll.
- spring snow — corn snow.
- springboard — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
- springhouse — a small storehouse built over a spring or part of a brook, for keeping such foods as meat and dairy products cool and fresh.
- stasimorphy — structural modification by arrested development
- stereoptics — the branch of stereoscopy that is concerned with optics
- stereotypic — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
- stipitiform — having the form of a stipe.
- stipuliform — shaped like a stipule.
- strip joint — a nightclub or other establishment featuring striptease performances.
- strip poker — a game of poker in which the losers in a hand remove an article of clothing.
- strongpoint — a fortified defensive position; stronghold.
- subprioress — a nun junior to a prioress
- subtropical — bordering on the tropics; nearly tropical.
- sun-worship — the act of worshipping the sun as a deity
- superegoist — an exceptionally selfish or self-centred person; someone who is very self-important
- superheroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- superimpose — to impose, place, or set over, above, or on something else.
- superiority — the quality or condition of being superior.
- supernation — a large body of people, associated with a particular territory, that is sufficiently conscious of its unity to seek or to possess a government peculiarly its own: The president spoke to the nation about the new tax.
- superpolite — extremely polite
- superprofit — above-average profits gained through enterprise
- supersonics — the branch of science that deals with supersonic phenomena.
- supervision — the act or function of supervising; superintendence.
- supervisory — of, relating to, or having supervision.
- suppository — a solid, conical mass of medicinal substance that melts upon insertion into the rectum or vagina.
- suppression — the act of suppressing.
- suppuration — the process of suppurating.
- surgeonship — the position or responsibility of a surgeon
- suspiration — a long, deep sigh.
- sword-point — the point of a sword
- symposiarch — the president, director, or master of a symposium.
- taboparesis — the occurrence of two conditions (general paresis and tabes dorsalis) at the same time
- temporality — temporal character or nature; temporariness.
- temporalize — to make temporal in time; place in time.
- temporarily — lasting, existing, serving, or effective for a time only; not permanent: a temporary need; a temporary job.
- temporizing — an agreement for a limited period of time
- term policy — a policy whose period of coverage is in excess of one year, usually paying a reduced premium rate, as in fire insurance.
- terpsichore — Classical Mythology. the Muse of dancing and choral song.
- tetraploidy — having a chromosome number that is four times the basic or haploid number.
- the tropics — that part of the earth's surface between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn; the Torrid Zone
- theomorphic — having the form or likeness of God or a deity.
- thermophile — a thermophilic organism.
- thixotropic — the property exhibited by certain gels of becoming liquid when stirred or shaken.
- thoroughpin — an abnormal swelling just above the hock of a horse, usually appearing on both sides of the leg and sometimes causing lameness.
- thrift shop — a retail store that sells secondhand goods at reduced prices.
- thyrotropic — capable of stimulating the thyroid gland.