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11-letter words containing p, y, o, s, i

  • pyroclastic — composed chiefly of fragments of volcanic origin, as agglomerate, tuff, and certain other rocks; volcaniclastic.
  • pyrognostic — relating to heated minerals
  • pyrokinesis — the ability to set objects or people on fire through the concentration of psychic power.
  • respiratory — pertaining to or serving for respiration: respiratory disease.
  • responsibly — answerable or accountable, as for something within one's power, control, or management (often followed by to or for): He is responsible to the president for his decisions.
  • retinoscopy — an objective method of determining the refractive error of an eye.
  • rhinoplasty — plastic surgery of the nose.
  • saprophytic — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
  • schizophyte — any of the Schizophyta, a group of organisms comprising the schizomycetes and the schizophyceous algae, characterized by a simple structure and reproduction by simple fission or spores.
  • scorpionfly — any of several harmless insects of the order Mecoptera, the male of certain species having a reproductive structure that resembles the sting of a scorpion.
  • scripophily — the collecting by hobbyists of old stock certificates and bonds that have no intrinsic value other than their aesthetic appeal or relative rarity.
  • scyphistoma — a stage in the life cycle of a jellyfish or other scyphozoan when it is fixed in place and reproduces asexually to produce free-swimming medusas.
  • shoofly pie — an open pie filled with a sweet crumb and molasses mixture and baked.
  • sialography — radiography of salivary glands once they have been injected with a contrast medium
  • siphonogamy — a mode of pollination in which pollen tubes develop to facilitate the passage of male cells to eggs
  • sociography — the branch of sociology that uses statistical data to describe social phenomena.
  • spasmolysis — the relaxation or relief of muscle spasm.
  • spasmolytic — of or noting spasmolysis.
  • spirography — the study of breathing using a spirograph
  • spondylitic — inflammation of the vertebrae.
  • spondylitis — inflammation of the vertebrae.
  • spondylosis — immobility and fusion of vertebral joints.
  • spontaneity — the state, quality, or fact of being spontaneous.
  • sporadicity — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
  • sporocystic — of or like a sporocyst
  • spy-hopping — a vertical half-rise out of the water performed by a whale in order to view the surroundings. a springing bounce in tall grasses performed by certain land mammals, as foxes and wolves, to view the surroundings.
  • stasimorphy — structural modification by arrested development
  • steatopygia — extreme accumulation of fat on and about the buttocks, especially of women.
  • steatopygic — extreme accumulation of fat on and about the buttocks, especially of women.
  • stenotypist — shorthand in which alphabetic letters or types are used to produce shortened forms of words or groups of words.
  • stereotypic — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
  • stony point — a village in SE New York, on the Hudson: site of a strategic fort in the Revolutionary War.
  • stylopodium — a glandular disk or expansion surmounting the ovary and supporting the styles in plants of the parsley family.
  • superiority — the quality or condition of being superior.
  • supervisory — of, relating to, or having supervision.
  • suppository — a solid, conical mass of medicinal substance that melts upon insertion into the rectum or vagina.
  • sycophantic — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
  • symphonious — harmonious; in harmonious agreement or accord.
  • symposiarch — the president, director, or master of a symposium.
  • symptomatic — pertaining to a symptom or symptoms.
  • 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
  • syphilology — the branch of medicine concerned with the study and treatment of syphilis
  • triphyllous — having three leaves.
  • tropomyosin — a protein in muscle tissue that works with troponin to control the process by which actin and myosin interact to produce muscle contraction
  • trypsinogen — a precursor of trypsin that is secreted by the pancreas and is activated to trypsin in the small intestine.
  • very pistol — a special pistol which fires coloured flares for signalling at night, esp at sea
  • xerophytism — (botany) The adaptation of plants to habitats where water is scarce.
  • xylophilous — Living on or in wood, as some fungi and beetles do.
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