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11-letter words containing p, r, e, t, n

  • stearoptene — the oxygenated solid part of an essential oil (opposed to eleoptene).
  • stench trap — a trap in a sewer that by means of a water seal prevents the upward passage of foul-smelling gases
  • stenography — the art of writing in shorthand.
  • step-parent — a stepfather or stepmother.
  • stepanakert — a city in and the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, within Azerbaijan.
  • stereophony — the state or condition of being stereophonic.
  • stevengraph — a small picture woven in colored silk thread: introduced in 1879 and mass-produced on a Jacquard-type loom.
  • stipendiary — receiving a stipend; performing services for regular pay.
  • strandloper — a member of an extinct tribe of Khoikhoi or Bushmen who lived on seafood gathered on the beaches of southern Africa
  • strap hinge — a hinge having a flap, especially a long one, attached to one face of a door or the like.
  • strap-hinge — a hinge having a flap, especially a long one, attached to one face of a door or the like.
  • straphanger — a passenger who stands in a crowded bus or subway train and holds onto a strap or other support suspended from above.
  • stringpiece — a long, usually horizontal piece of timber, beam, etc., for strengthening, connecting, or supporting a framework.
  • superaltern — a universal proposition that is the basis for the immediate inference of a corresponding particular proposition.
  • supercenter — a very large shopping centre or complex
  • superdainty — very dainty
  • superinfect — to infect further with an additional infection
  • superintend — to oversee and direct (work, processes, etc.).
  • superjacent — lying above or upon something else.
  • supernatant — floating above or on the surface.
  • 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.
  • supernature — the supernatural
  • superstring — any supersymmetric string theory in which each type of elementary particle is treated as a vibration of a single fundamental string (superstring) at a particular frequency.
  • superstrong — extremely strong
  • supertanker — a tanker with a deadweight capacity of over 75,000 tons.
  • supportment — the action of supporting
  • suppressant — a substance that suppresses an undesirable action or condition: an appetite suppressant.
  • teenybopper — a teenage girl, especially a young one.
  • telanaipura — former name of Jambi (def 2).
  • teleprinter — a teletypewriter.
  • temperament — the combination of mental, physical, and emotional traits of a person; natural predisposition.
  • temporizing — an agreement for a limited period of time
  • tenorrhaphy — suture of a tendon.
  • tepary bean — a twining or bushy plant, Phaseolus acutifolius latifolius, of the legume family, native to Mexico and Arizona, having white or violet-colored flowers, grown as a food plant in dry regions.
  • tephromancy — the seeking of the future using ashes
  • terpeneless — (originally) any of a class of monocyclic hydrocarbons of the formula C 10 H 16 , obtained from plants.
  • tertianship — (in the Jesuit order) a period of strict discipline before the taking of final vows, beginning one or two years after ordination.
  • tetrapteran — of or related to things, particularly insects, with four wings
  • the nonpoor — people who are not poor
  • the permian — the Permian period or rock system
  • the present — the time being; now
  • thermophone — an electroacoustic transducer that forms sound waves by the expansion and contraction of the air adjacent to a conductor that varies in temperature according to the magnitude of the current passing through it; formerly used to calibrate microphones.
  • 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.
  • thunderclap — a crash of thunder.
  • thunderpeal — a crash of thunder; thunderclap.
  • tiger prawn — a large edible prawn of the genus Penaeus with dark bands across the body, fished commercially in the Indian and Pacific oceans
  • tin pyrites — stannite.
  • tinley park — a town in NE Illinois.
  • topdressing — an application of fertiliser to soil
  • topocentric — as seen from, with reference to, or coordinating to a point on the surface of the earth
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