11-letter words containing p, r, o, n
- spoon bread — Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a baked dish made with cornmeal, milk, eggs, and shortening, served as an accompaniment to meat.
- spore print — the pattern produced by placing the cap of a mushroom on a piece of paper and allowing the spores to fall
- sporogenous — of or relating to spores or spore production.
- sporogonium — the sporangium of mosses and liverworts.
- sportswoman — a woman who engages in sports.
- sporulation — to produce spores.
- 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.
- stearoptene — the oxygenated solid part of an essential oil (opposed to eleoptene).
- stenography — the art of writing in shorthand.
- stereophony — the state or condition of being stereophonic.
- strandloper — a member of an extinct tribe of Khoikhoi or Bushmen who lived on seafood gathered on the beaches of southern Africa
- strip joint — a nightclub or other establishment featuring striptease performances.
- strongpoint — a fortified defensive position; stronghold.
- sugar spoon — a small spoon for serving granulated sugar, resembling but having a wider bowl than a teaspoon.
- sun-worship — the act of worshipping the sun as a deity
- sundry shop — (in Malaysia) a shop, similar to a delicatessen, that sells predominantly Chinese foodstuffs
- superabound — to abound beyond something else.
- supermodern — highly modern
- 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.
- supernormal — in excess of the normal or average: supernormal faculties; supernormal production.
- superperson — a person who transcends personal limits
- supersonics — the branch of science that deals with supersonic phenomena.
- superstrong — extremely strong
- supervision — the act or function of supervising; superintendence.
- superweapon — an extremely powerful weapon
- supportment — the action of supporting
- 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
- teenybopper — a teenage girl, especially a young one.
- temporizing — an agreement for a limited period of time
- tenorrhaphy — suture of a tendon.
- tephromancy — the seeking of the future using ashes
- the nonpoor — people who are not poor
- 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.
- thornproofs — garments that resist penetration by thorns
- thoroughpin — an abnormal swelling just above the hock of a horse, usually appearing on both sides of the leg and sometimes causing lameness.
- thrust upon — If something is thrust upon you, you are forced to have it, deal with it, or experience it.
- thyrotropin — an anterior pituitary hormone that regulates the activity of the thyroid gland.
- top-ranking — A top-ranking person is someone who has a very high rank or status in a particular organization or field of activity.
- 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
- torpedinous — of, relating to, or resembling a torpedo