11-letter words containing s, i, m, p, o
- overimposed — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
- overimpress — to impress to an excessive degree
- overpromise — a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one: unkept political promises.
- pantomimist — a person who acts in pantomime.
- paramastoid — of or relating to the part of the skull next to the mastoid process
- paronomasia — the use of a word in different senses or the use of words similar in sound to achieve a specific effect, as humor or a dual meaning; punning.
- passeriform — of or relating to the order Passeriformes; passerine.
- pastoralism — the practice of herding as the primary economic activity of a society.
- pedobaptism — the baptism of infants.
- pentastomid — tongue worm.
- pentatonism — the use of a five-tone scale.
- peroxisomal — of or relating to a peroxisome; of the nature of a peroxisome
- personalism — Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
- phonematics — phonemics.
- phoneticism — a phonetic scheme of writing
- phosphonium — the positively charged group PH 4 + .
- phosphorism — chronic phosphorus poisoning.
- photomosaic — mosaic (def 4).
- physiognomy — the face or countenance, especially when considered as an index to the character: a fierce physiognomy.
- physiometry — measurement of the physiological functions of the body.
- phytotomist — someone who studies or who is an expert in phytotomy
- piano music — printed music intended to be played on the piano
- piedmontese — a native or inhabitant of Piedmont, Italy.
- pillow sham — an ornamental cover laid over a bed pillow.
- pink salmon — a small Pacific salmon, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, distinguished by its small scales and long anal fin and by the bright red spawning coloration of males, occurring from California to Alaska and in waters of Japan: fished commercially and for sport.
- pipe smoker — a person who smokes a tobacco pipe
- piston pump — A piston pump is a pump which moves fluid by the movement up and down of a disk or short cylinder inside a tube.
- pittosporum — any of various shrubs or trees of the genus Pittosporum, native to warm regions of the Old World, many species of which are cultivated as ornamentals for their attractive foliage, flowers, or fruit.
- plagiostome — (of fish) belonging to the genus Plagiostomi, which includes sharks and rays, characterized by a transverse mouth with the jaw suspended from the skull
- plasminogen — the blood substance that when activated forms plasmin.
- plasmolysis — contraction of the protoplasm in a living cell when water is removed by exosmosis.
- pleiomerous — (of a flower) having a greater than normal number of parts
- pleochroism — the property of certain crystals of exhibiting different colors when viewed from different directions under transmitted light. Compare dichroism (def 1), trichroism.
- plumigerous — wearing or possessing feathers
- plutonomist — a person who studies or has expertise in plutonomy
- plyometrics — a system of exercise in which the muscles are repeatedly stretched and suddenly contracted
- pneumonitis — inflammation of the lung caused by a virus or exposure to irritating substances.
- pointillism — a theory and technique developed by the neo-impressionists, based on the principle that juxtaposed dots of pure color, as blue and yellow, are optically mixed into the resulting hue, as green, by the viewer.
- polychasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which each axis produces more than two lateral axes.
- polychroism — the ability of a crystal to absorb different wavelengths of light and thus to display multiple colours
- polycrotism — a polycrotic condition
- polyglotism — able to speak or write several languages; multilingual.
- polylithism — (programming) A property of a data-object that can exist in many shapes and sizes, but not simultaneously; which distinguishes it from a union. It is often implemented as a set of classes (or structs) derived from a common base class (or with a common header, as in the case of structs), typically without any methods. It has been loosely described as polymorphic data.
- polymerizes — to subject to polymerization.
- polyspermia — the secretion of an excessive amount of semen.
- porro prism — an isosceles, right-triangular prism in which light entering one half of the hypotenuse face is reflected at the two short sides and is reversed in orientation when it leaves the other half of the hypotenuse: used in 90°-oriented pairs in binoculars to increase the length of the optical path and to erect the final image.
- positronium — a short-lived atomic system consisting of a positron and an electron bound together.
- possibilism — the theory in geography that human behaviour, and therefore culture, is not merely determined by the environment but by human agency, as a theory it is directly opposed to determinism
- postmarital — occurring, effective, or provided after marriage
- postprimary — of or relating to education after primary school