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11-letter words containing s, a, p, o, u, r

  • justaucorps — a fitted, knee-length coat, characterized by wide turned-back cuffs and stiff flared skirts, worn especially by men in the 17th and 18th centuries.
  • larviparous — producing larvae, as certain insects and mollusks.
  • lepromatous — the swollen lesion of leprosy.
  • leprosarium — a hospital for the treatment of lepers.
  • loudspeaker — any of various devices, usually electronic, by which speech, music, etc., can be intensified and made audible throughout a room, hall, or the like.
  • macropodous — (of a leaf) having a long stalk.
  • monocarpous — having a gynoecium that forms only a single ovary.
  • multiparous — of or relating to a multipara.
  • museography — The systematic description of objects in museums.
  • mustard pot — a small pot, of glass, silver, etc, placed on the table to serve mustard
  • naturopaths — Plural form of naturopath.
  • neuroplasty — Any surgery to repair nerve tissue.
  • nonspecular — that reflects light diffusely and evenly over the hemisphere surrounding the reflective surface; diffuse
  • noun phrase — a construction that functions syntactically as a noun, consisting of a noun and any modifiers, as all the men in the room who are reading books, or of a noun substitute, as a pronoun.
  • nulliparous — a woman who has never borne a child.
  • opera house — a theater devoted chiefly to operas.
  • outer space — space beyond the atmosphere of the earth.
  • papovavirus — any of a group of DNA-containing human and animal viruses, including polyoma viruses and some papillomaviruses, most of which produce tumors.
  • papyraceous — papery.
  • parabolanus — a member of an early Christian brotherhood in Alexandria and Constantinople who helped the sick in the times of plague
  • pass around — distribute, circulate
  • passthrough — a windowlike opening, as one for passing food or dishes between a kitchen and a dining area.
  • pentamerous — consisting of or divided into five parts.
  • pentandrous — of or pertaining to the order of plants Pentandria, characterized by having five stamens
  • pervouralsk — a city in the central RSFSR, in the Ural Mountains in Asia.
  • piperaceous — belonging to the Piperacae, the pepper family of plants.
  • piss around — If you say that someone pisses around or pisses about, you mean they waste a lot of time doing unimportant things.
  • ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough
  • polyamorous — noting or relating to polyamory, the practice or condition of participating simultaneously in more than one serious romantic or sexual relationship with the knowledge and consent of all partners.
  • polyandrous — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or practicing polyandry; polyandric.
  • polycarpous — producing fruit many times, as a perennial plant.
  • postulatory — of or relating to a postulate or assumption
  • precautious — using or displaying precaution: a precautious reply; a precautious person.
  • primiparous — a woman who has borne but one child or who is parturient for the first time.
  • proconsular — Roman History. an official, usually a former consul, who acted as governor or military commander of a province, and who had powers similar to those of a consul.
  • procrustean — pertaining to or suggestive of Procrustes.
  • prognathous — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
  • prosauropod — a herbivorous dinosaur of the Triassic and early Jurassic periods
  • protandrous — (of hermaphrodite or monoecious plants) maturing the anthers before the stigma
  • provascular — of or relating to procambium
  • pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
  • pure reason — reason based on a priori principles and providing a unifying ground for the perception of the phenomenal world.
  • pursuant to — legal: in accordance with
  • push around — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
  • put on airs — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
  • pyrosulfate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid.
  • rapturously — full of, feeling, or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight.
  • russophobia — an intense and often irrational hatred for Russia, or esp the former Soviet Union, its political system, etc
  • sarcophagus — a stone coffin, especially one bearing sculpture, inscriptions, etc., often displayed as a monument.
  • sauropsidan — relating to the Sauropsida or animals belonging to the Sauriodea group in Huxley's classification
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