11-letter words containing s, p, e
- music paper — paper ruled or printed with a stave for writing music
- my pretties — a way of addressing a group of people
- mythopoesis — Creation of myth.
- nanospheres — Plural form of nanosphere.
- neap season — the time of year when either of the two tides that occur at the first or last quarter of the moon when the tide-generating forces of the sun and moon oppose each other and produce the smallest rise and fall in tidal level
- necropoleis — Plural form of necropolis.
- necroscopic — of or relating to a necropsy or postmortem examination
- nemophilist — (rare) One who is fond of forests or forest scenery; a haunter of the woods.
- neopaganism — a 20th-century revival of interest in the worship of nature, fertility, etc., as represented by various deities.
- neopopulism — pertaining to a revival of populism, especially a sophisticated form appealing to commonplace values and prejudices.
- neopopulist — pertaining to a revival of populism, especially a sophisticated form appealing to commonplace values and prejudices.
- neoptolemus — the son of Achilles, who slew Priam at the fall of Troy.
- nephoscopes — Plural form of nephoscope.
- nephrolepis — any fern of the tropical genus Nephrolepis, some species of which are grown as ornamental greenhouse or house plants for their handsome deeply-cut drooping fronds: family Polypodiaceae
- nephroliths — a renal calculus; kidney stone.
- nephroscope — (surgery) An instrument used to examine the kidney through an inserted tube.
- nephrostome — Zoology. the ciliated opening of a nephridium into the coelom.
- neuroplasty — Any surgery to repair nerve tissue.
- neutrophils — Plural form of neutrophil.
- neutrosophy — (philosophy) (From Latin "neuter" - neutral, Greek "sophia" - skill/wisdom) A branch of philosophy, introduced by Florentin Smarandache in 1980, which studies the origin, nature, and scope of neutralities, as well as their interactions with different ideational spectra. Neutrosophy considers a proposition, theory, event, concept, or entity, "A" in relation to its opposite, "Anti-A" and that which is not A, "Non-A", and that which is neither "A" nor "Anti-A", denoted by "Neut-A". Neutrosophy is the basis of neutrosophic logic, neutrosophic probability, neutrosophic set, and neutrosophic statistics.
- new planets — the outer planets Uranus, Neptune, and (formerly) Pluto, only discovered comparatively recently
- newspersons — Plural form of newsperson.
- nightscopes — Plural form of nightscope.
- nippleworts — Plural form of nipplewort.
- nociceptors — Plural form of nociceptor.
- non-suspect — to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof: to suspect a person of murder.
- noncomposer — a person who is not a composer
- nondescript — of no recognized, definite, or particular type or kind: a nondescript novel; a nondescript color.
- nonexposure — the act of exposing, laying open, or uncovering: the sudden exposure of objects that were hidden under the blanket.
- nonpersonal — Not personal.
- nonpositive — (of a real number) less than or equal to zero.
- nonresponse — a failure or refusal to respond
- nonspeaking — the act, utterance, or discourse of a person who speaks.
- nonspecific — Not detailed or exact; general.
- nonspecular — that reflects light diffusely and evenly over the hemisphere surrounding the reflective surface; diffuse
- north slope — the northern coastal area of Alaska, rich in oil and natural gas: so called because it is N of the Brooks Range sloping down to the Arctic Ocean.
- nosy parker — a prying person
- 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.
- nuclear sap — karyolymph
- nucleoplasm — the protoplasm of the nucleus of a cell.
- nympholepsy — an ecstasy supposed by the ancients to be inspired by nymphs.
- nympholepts — Plural form of nympholept.
- object lisp — (language) An object-oriented Lisp developed by Lisp Machines Inc. (LMI) in about 1987. Object Lisp was based on nested closures and operator shadowing. Several competing object-orientated extensions to Lisp were around at the time, such as Flavors, in use by Symbolics; Common Objects, developed by Hewlett-Packard; and CommonLoops in use by Xerox. LMI submitted the specification as a candidate for an object-oriented standard for Common Lisp, but it was defeated in favour of CLOS.
- occupancies — Plural form of occupancy.
- oedipus rex — a tragedy (c430 b.c.) by Sophocles.
- oenophilist — a person who enjoys wines, usually as a connoisseur.
- oesophageal — esophageal.
- officership — a person who holds a position of rank or authority in the army, navy, air force, or any similar organization, especially one who holds a commission.
- old persian — an ancient West Iranian language attested by cuneiform inscriptions. Abbreviation: OPers.
- oligopolies — Plural form of oligopoly.