11-letter words containing p, r, e, c, t, s
- prospective — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- prosthetics — an artificial body part; a prosthesis: Hundreds of amputees volunteered to test the new prosthetics.
- protectress — a woman who guards or defends someone or something; protector.
- psychometer — a device for measuring mental or psychological activity
- psychometry — Psychology. psychometrics.
- putrescence — becoming putrid; undergoing putrefaction.
- putrescible — liable to become putrid.
- reinspected — to look carefully at or over; view closely and critically: to inspect every part of the motor.
- reject shop — a shop that sells damaged or imperfect products that cannot be sold at the full price
- rescription — a reply or answering of a letter
- respectable — worthy of respect or esteem; estimable; worthy: a respectable citizen.
- respectably — worthy of respect or esteem; estimable; worthy: a respectable citizen.
- respectless — disrespectful, not offering respect, lacking respect
- retinoscope — an apparatus that determines the refractive power of the eye by observing the lights and shadows on the pupil when a mirror illumines the retina; skiascope.
- retinoscopy — an objective method of determining the refractive error of an eye.
- rocket ship — a rocket-propelled aircraft or spacecraft.
- rope socket — either of a pair of matching fittings fastened to the ends of lengths of wire rope to join them together.
- rope stitch — (in embroidery) a stitch formed from the entwining of stitches.
- scarlet cup — a small, fleshy, saucer-shaped fungus, Sarcoscypha coccinea, of the family Sarcoscyphaceae, marked by a scarlet inner surface and white exterior, seen on fallen branches in the spring.
- scatter pin — a woman's small ornamental pin, usually worn with other similar pins on a dress, suit jacket, etc.
- scent spray — perfume that comes in an aerosol bottle
- sceptreless — lacking a sceptre, powerless, lacking authority
- scrap metal — discarded metal
- screw plate — a metal plate having threaded holes, used for cutting screw threads by hand.
- serpentinic — of, relating to, or containing the mineral serpentine
- shag carpet — shag pile carpet
- sheep track — a pathway made by and used by sheep, often in rocky or mountainous terrain, and sometimes followed by hikers
- simpliciter — simply
- skip tracer — an investigator whose job is to locate missing persons, especially debtors.
- spatterdock — any of various water lilies of the genus Nuphar, having globular yellow flowers and growing in lakes or sluggish streams, especially N. advena, of the eastern U.S.
- spectacular — of or like a spectacle; marked by or given to an impressive, large-scale display.
- spectrality — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
- spectrogram — a representation or photograph of a spectrum.
- spectrology — the study of ghosts, phantoms, or apparitions.
- specularity — the state of resembling a mirror
- speculatory — a place suitable for observation
- speechcraft — the art of rhetoric
- spent force — If you refer to someone who used to be powerful as a spent force, you mean that they no longer have any power or influence.
- sperm count — the number of spermatozoa in an amount of semen, used as an indication of a man's fertility
- spermatheca — a small sac or cavity in female or hermaphroditic invertebrates used to store sperm for fertilizing eggs, as in the queen bee.
- spermatoxic — (of a substance) toxic to spermatozoa.
- spermotoxic — (of a substance) toxic to spermatozoa.
- spice route — an ancient trade route followed by merchants, importers and exporters trading in exotic spices such as cloves and cinnamon
- spirit cave — an archaeological site in Thailand that has produced evidence of very early plant domestication in Southeast Asia, dated c7000 b.c.
- spirochaete — any of various spiral-shaped motile bacteria of the family Spirochaetaceae, certain species, as Treponema, Leptospira, and Borrelia, being pathogenic to humans and other animals, and other species being free-living, saprophytic, or parasitic.
- spitsticker — a wood-engraving tool with a fine prow-shaped point for cutting curved lines
- sprite crab — ghost crab.
- stauroscope — an optical instrument for studying the crystal structure of minerals under polarized light
- stench trap — a trap in a sewer that by means of a water seal prevents the upward passage of foul-smelling gases
- step rocket — a multistage rocket that discards burned-out stages.