11-letter words containing s, p, e, i, r
- extemporise — (intransitive) To do something, particularly to perform or speak, without prior planning or thought; to act in an impromptu manner; to improvise.
- fair-spoken — speaking or spoken in a courteous, civil, or plausible manner; smooth-spoken.
- fiberscopes — Plural form of fiberscope.
- field sport — Hunting, shooting birds, and fishing with a rod are referred to as field sports when they are done mainly for pleasure.
- field-strip — to take apart (a weapon) for cleaning, lubrication, and repair or for inspection.
- finger post — a post with one or more directional signs, terminating in a pointed finger or hand.
- fingerpicks — Plural form of fingerpick.
- fire escape — an apparatus or structure used to escape from a burning building, as a metal stairway down an outside wall.
- fire-polish — to smooth (glass) by reheating to remove tool marks or other imperfections in the surface.
- foetiparous — (of a marsupial) bearing young before they are fully developed.
- food prices — the prices that consumers are charged for food
- forcepslike — Resembling a forceps.
- foreglimpse — a revelation or glimpse of the future.
- foremanship — The position of a foreman.
- foretopsail — (nautical) the sail draped from the foretopmast.
- fortepianos — Plural form of fortepiano.
- foundership — The condition of having founded something.
- free spirit — a person with a highly individual or unique attitude, lifestyle, or imagination; nonconformist.
- friendships — Plural form of friendship.
- gemmiparous — producing or reproducing by buds or gemmae.
- generalship — skill as commander of a large military force or unit.
- geographies — the science dealing with the areal differentiation of the earth's surface, as shown in the character, arrangement, and interrelations over the world of such elements as climate, elevation, soil, vegetation, population, land use, industries, or states, and of the unit areas formed by the complex of these individual elements.
- geostrophic — of or relating to the balance between the Coriolis force and the horizontal pressure force in the atmosphere.
- gingersnaps — Plural form of gingersnap.
- grapefruits — Plural form of grapefruit.
- graphicness — The quality of being graphic: grotesqueness or vividness.
- graptolites — Plural form of graptolite.
- grass snipe — the pectoral sandpiper.
- gravisphere — the area in which the gravitational force of a celestial body is predominant.
- greasepaint — an oily mixture of melted tallow or grease and a pigment, used by actors, clowns, etc., for making up their faces.
- guttersnipe — a person belonging to or characteristic of the lowest social group in a city.
- gypsiferous — containing gypsum.
- haruspicate — of or relating to a haruspex
- headstripes — Plural form of headstripe.
- helicopters — Plural form of helicopter.
- helicospore — a coiled cylindrical fungal spore.
- heliographs — Plural form of heliograph.
- heliosphere — the region around the sun over which the effect of the solar wind extends.
- heliotropes — Plural form of heliotrope.
- helispheric — spiral
- hemiparesis — partial paralysis affecting only one side of the body.
- hemipterans — Plural form of hemipteran.
- hemipterous — belonging or pertaining to the Hemiptera, an order of insects having forewings that are thickened and leathery at the base and membranous at the apex, comprising the true bugs.
- hemispheres — Plural form of hemisphere.
- hemispheric — of or relating to a hemisphere.
- heptarchies — Plural form of heptarchy.
- heptarchist — A ruler of one division of a heptarchy.
- hermoupolis — a port in Greece, capital of Cyclades department, on the E coast of Syros Island. Pop: (municipality): 13 496 (2001)
- herpesvirus — a DNA-containing virus of the family Herpesviridae, certain members of which cause such diseases in humans as oral and genital herpes, infectious mononucleosis, chickenpox, and shingles.
- hesperidium — the fruit of a citrus plant, as an orange.