11-letter words containing p, o, n, y, t
- spontaneity — the state, quality, or fact of being spontaneous.
- stenography — the art of writing in shorthand.
- stenotypist — shorthand in which alphabetic letters or types are used to produce shortened forms of words or groups of words.
- stereophony — the state or condition of being stereophonic.
- stony point — a village in SE New York, on the Hudson: site of a strategic fort in the Revolutionary War.
- study up on — to make a careful study of
- sycophantic — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- symphonette — a small symphony orchestra that usually specializes in playing short, familiar classical works or salon music.
- synaptosome — a saclike structure at an isolated nerve ending
- syncopation — Music. a shifting of the normal accent, usually by stressing the normally unaccented beats.
- syncopative — relating to syncopation
- synoptistic — relating to the work of a synoptist
- teenybopper — a teenage girl, especially a young one.
- tenorrhaphy — suture of a tendon.
- tephromancy — the seeking of the future using ashes
- theopneusty — divine inspiration; the influence of God's spirit enabling humans to receive a divine truth
- thyrotropin — an anterior pituitary hormone that regulates the activity of the thyroid gland.
- ton-up boys — youths who habitually ride or drive a vehicle at speeds of a hundred miles per hour or more
- torrey pine — a rare pine tree, Pinus torreyana, having a rounded crown of branches, growing in a limited area on the southern coast of California.
- totipotency — (of a cell or part) having the potential for developing in various specialized ways in response to external or internal stimuli.
- trichonymph — a flagellated protozoan of the genus Trichonympha that lives in the intestine of wood-eating termites, transforming the cellulose in the wood into soluble carbohydrates that can be utilized by the insect.
- tropomyosin — a protein in muscle tissue that works with troponin to control the process by which actin and myosin interact to produce muscle contraction
- trypanocide — a drug or substance that kills trypanosomes
- trypanosoma — trypanosome.
- trypanosome — any minute, flagellate protozoan of the genus Trypanosoma, parasitic in the blood or tissues of humans and other vertebrates, usually transmitted by insects, often causing serious diseases, as African sleeping sickness in humans, and many diseases in domestic animals.
- trypsinogen — a precursor of trypsin that is secreted by the pancreas and is activated to trypsin in the small intestine.
- two a penny — Things that are said to be two a penny or ten a penny are not valuable or interesting because they are very common and easy to find.
- tympaniform — resembling or having the form of a drum or drum head
- typefounder — a person who casts metallic printer's type
- typing pool — group of secretaries
- undo-plasty — cosmetic surgical procedures designed to reverse the results of a previous procedure or procedures
- unstoppably — that cannot be stopped or surpassed; unbeatable: an unstoppable ball team.
- uranoplasty — a surgical operation to correct a defect of the palate or roof of the mouth
- xanthophyll — lutein (def 1).
- xylophonist — A person who plays or performs with the xylophone.
- 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