11-letter words containing s, l, i, p, n
- personalize — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
- philippians — an Epistle written by Paul to the Christian community in Philippi. Abbreviation: Phil.
- philippines — an archipelago of 7083 islands in the Pacific, SE of China: formerly (1898–1946) under the guardianship of the U.S.; now an independent republic. 114,830 sq. mi. (297,410 sq. km). Capital: Manila.
- philistines — (sometimes initial capital letter) a person who is lacking in or hostile or smugly indifferent to cultural values, intellectual pursuits, aesthetic refinement, etc., or is contentedly commonplace in ideas and tastes.
- phitsanulok — a city in central Thailand.
- phonologist — a specialist in phonology.
- piano stool — adjustable stool used by pianist
- piebaldness — having patches of black and white or of other colors; parti-colored.
- 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.
- piston land — A piston land is a raised area of a piston between piston rings.
- piston slap — the characteristic sound of a seriously worn piston in a cylinder (usually of the engine of a motor car)
- plain ascii — /playn-as'kee/ flat ASCII.
- plainstanes — the pavement or a paved area in a town or city
- plainstones — the pavement or a paved area in a town or city
- planisphere — a map of half or more of the celestial sphere with a device for indicating the part of a given location visible at a given time.
- plasminogen — the blood substance that when activated forms plasmin.
- playstation — (games, hardware) The leading family of games consoles, from Sony Corporation consisting of the original Playstation (PS1) and the Playstation 2 (PS2). The basic Playstations consist of a small box containing the processor and a DVD reader, with video outputs to connect to a TV, sockets for two game controllers, and a socket for one or two memory cards. The PS2 also has USB sockets. The PS2 can run PS1 software because the PS2's I/O processor is the same as the PS1's CPU.
- plebeianism — belonging or pertaining to the common people.
- pleinairism — pertaining to a manner or style of painting developed chiefly in France in the mid-19th century, characterized by the representation of the luminous effects of natural light and atmosphere as contrasted with the artificial light and absence of the sense of air or atmosphere associated with paintings produced in the studio.
- pleistocene — noting or pertaining to the epoch forming the earlier half of the Quaternary Period, beginning about two million years ago and ending 10,000 years ago, characterized by widespread glacial ice and the advent of modern humans.
- plenishings — furnishings or equipment
- plutonomist — a person who studies or has expertise in plutonomy
- 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.
- poison pill — a pellet of a quick-acting poison, as cyanide, for a spy to carry in order to commit suicide when faced with capture or torture.
- polyandrist — a woman who practices or favors polyandry.
- polygenesis — origin from more than one ancestral species or line.
- polyphonist — a musical composer of or theorist in polyphony
- pontificals — of, relating to, or characteristic of a pontiff; papal.
- postcranial — located posterior to the head.
- postexilian — being or occurring subsequent to the exile of the Jews in Babylonia 597–538 b.c.
- postlanding — occurring after a landing (of an aircraft, shuttle, etc)
- postnuptial — subsequent to marriage: postnuptial adjustments.
- postulating — to ask, demand, or claim.
- postulation — to ask, demand, or claim.
- pre-selling — to sell in advance, as before manufacture or construction: to presell a planned house.
- pre-seminal — released before semen is ejaculated
- precisional — the state or quality of being precise.
- prehensible — able to be seized or grasped.
- presenility — premature old age.
- presolution — the act of solving a problem, question, etc.: The situation is approaching solution.
- presumingly — presumptuous.
- previsional — characteristic of prevision
- promisingly — giving favorable promise; likely to turn out well: a promising young man; a promising situation.
- 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.
- pronominals — Grammar. pertaining to, resembling, derived from, or containing a pronoun: “My” in “my book” is a pronominal adjective. “There” is a pronominal adverb.
- proselyting — a person who has changed from one opinion, religious belief, sect, or the like, to another; convert.
- prosiliency — prominence
- provisional — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
- psilomelane — a common mineral consisting of a mixture of pyrolusite and other oxides of manganese, usually found in black, rounded masses: an ore of manganese.