11-letter words containing s, i, n, t, r
- pinstriping — a design, as on a fabric or surface, consisting of pinstripes: There's a surcharge if the car has pinstriping.
- piston ring — a metallic ring, usually one of a series, and split so as to be expansible, placed around a piston in order to maintain a tight fit, as inside the cylinder of an engine.
- pitchperson — a pitchman or pitchwoman
- polyandrist — a woman who practices or favors polyandry.
- ponderosity — of great weight; heavy; massive.
- positronium — a short-lived atomic system consisting of a positron and an electron bound together.
- postcranial — located posterior to the head.
- posturizing — to posture; pose.
- praenestine — of or relating to the ancient town of Praeneste in Italy, or to the Latin dialect spoken there.
- pre-notions — a preconception.
- pre-testing — an advance or preliminary testing or trial, as of a new product.
- predestined — to destine in advance; foreordain; predetermine: He seemed predestined for the ministry.
- predynastic — of, relating to, or belonging to a time or period before the first dynasty of a nation, especially the period in Egypt before c3200 b.c.
- preexistent — to exist beforehand.
- preexisting — to exist beforehand.
- preposition — any member of a class of words found in many languages that are used before nouns, pronouns, or other substantives to form phrases functioning as modifiers of verbs, nouns, or adjectives, and that typically express a spatial, temporal, or other relationship, as in, on, by, to, since.
- presanctify — to sanctify ahead of an event
- prescindent — tending to prescind
- presenility — premature old age.
- presentient — having a presentiment.
- presolution — the act of solving a problem, question, etc.: The situation is approaching solution.
- prestations — a payment in money or in services.
- presumption — the act of presuming.
- presynaptic — being or occurring on the transmitting end of a discharge across a synapse.
- pretensions — the laying of a claim to something.
- pretentious — characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-important waiter.
- prison riot — a disturbance made by an unruly mob in a prison
- privateness — the quality of being private
- pro-zionist — a worldwide Jewish movement that resulted in the establishment and development of the state of Israel.
- productions — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
- profeminist — advocating social, political, legal, and economic rights for women equal to those of men.
- prognathism — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- pronatalism — the policy or practice of encouraging the bearing of children, especially government support of a higher birthrate.
- pronatalist — the policy or practice of encouraging the bearing of children, especially government support of a higher birthrate.
- proportions — comparative relation between things or magnitudes as to size, quantity, number, etc.; ratio.
- proposition — the act of offering or suggesting something to be considered, accepted, adopted, or done.
- prosecuting — carrying out a prosecution
- prosecution — Law. the institution and carrying on of legal proceedings against a person. the body of officials by whom such proceedings are instituted and carried on.
- proselyting — a person who has changed from one opinion, religious belief, sect, or the like, to another; convert.
- prospecting — Usually, prospects. an apparent probability of advancement, success, profit, etc. the outlook for the future: good business prospects.
- prospection — anticipation
- prostrating — to cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.
- prostration — the act of prostrating.
- protagonism — the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.
- protagonist — the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.
- put on airs — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- pyrognostic — relating to heated minerals
- quadrantids — a collection of meteors comprising a meteor shower (Quadran·tid me·teor show·er) visible around January 31 and having its apparent origin in the constellation Boötes.
- quantifiers — Logic. an expression, as “all” or “some,” that indicates the quantity of a proposition. Compare existential quantifier, universal quantifier.
- quarantines — Plural form of quarantine.