11-letter words containing p, r, i, a, s
- macroscopic — visible to the naked eye. Compare microscopic (def 1).
- mailpersons — Plural form of mailperson.
- mainsprings — Plural form of mainspring.
- malapropism — an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, especially by the confusion of words that are similar in sound.
- malapropist — a person who regularly makes malapropisms
- managership — a person who has control or direction of an institution, business, etc., or of a part, division, or phase of it.
- manuscripts — Plural form of manuscript.
- marlinspike — a pointed iron implement used in separating the strands of rope in splicing, marling, etc.
- marshalship — The position or role of a marshal.
- masterpiece — a person's greatest piece of work, as in an art.
- metaphorist — a creator or user of metaphors
- metaphrasis — a metaphrase
- micrographs — Plural form of micrograph.
- microphages — Plural form of microphage.
- mimeographs — Plural form of mimeograph.
- mis-phrased — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
- misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
- misanthropy — hatred, dislike, or distrust of humankind.
- misappraise — to estimate the monetary value of; determine the worth of; assess: We had an expert appraise the house before we bought it.
- mispersuade — to persuade wrongly
- mispurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- multiparous — of or relating to a multipara.
- multispiral — having several spiral coils
- music paper — paper ruled or printed with a stave for writing music
- myographist — a person who has expert knowledge of muscles
- nonpartisan — not partisan; objective.
- nulliparous — a woman who has never borne a child.
- oarsmanship — The skill of rowing a boat.
- old persian — an ancient West Iranian language attested by cuneiform inscriptions. Abbreviation: OPers.
- opera seria — Italian dramatic opera of the 18th century based typically on a classical subject and characterized by extensive use of the aria da capo and recitative.
- operatories — a room or other area with special equipment and facilities, as for dental surgery, scientific experiments, or the like.
- paediatrics — Paediatrics is the area of medicine that is concerned with the treatment of children's illnesses.
- paint horse — paint (def 6).
- paint spray — paint bought in a special can which you spray on a surface by pressing a button on the top of the can
- palk strait — a strait in the Bay of Bengal between SE India and N Sri Lanka, to the N of Adam's Bridge. 40–85 miles (64–137 km) wide.
- palsgravine — the wife or widow of a palsgrave.
- pan-arabism — the idea or advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the Arab nations.
- pancarditis — inflammation of the entire heart: the pericardium, myocardium, and endocardium.
- pancratiast — (in ancient Greece) a person who takes part in a pancratium
- panel strip — one of a number of strips of wood or metal laid upon the surface of a wall, ceiling, etc., so as to divide it into a number of broad areas, usually in order to conceal joints between sheets of composition material forming the surface.
- panic grass — Also called panic grass. any grass of the genus Panicum, many species of which bear edible grain.
- panspermist — someone who advocates panspermia
- pantisocrat — someone who believes, or takes part, in pantisocracy
- papovavirus — any of a group of DNA-containing human and animal viruses, including polyoma viruses and some papillomaviruses, most of which produce tumors.
- parabaptism — unauthorized baptism
- parablepsis — abnormal vision
- parachutist — sb who makes parachute jumps
- paracrostic — a poem in which the initial letters of each line replicate the first line
- paragenesis — the origin of minerals or mineral deposits in contact so as to affect one another's formation.
- paraleipsis — paralipsis.