11-letter words containing s, p, e
- personal ad — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- personalise — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
- personalism — Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
- personalist — Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
- personality — the visible aspect of one's character as it impresses others: He has a pleasing personality.
- personalize — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
- personation — to act or portray (a character in a play, a part, etc.).
- personified — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- personifies — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- personpower — the power or influence of a person
- persorption — the deep penetration of a liquid into a highly porous solid, resulting in an intimate mixture.
- perspective — a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface. Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.
- perspicuity — clearness or lucidity, as of a statement.
- perspicuous — clearly expressed or presented; lucid.
- perspirable — having the ability to perspire
- persuadable — to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
- persuasible — capable of being persuaded; open to or yielding to persuasion.
- persulfuric — denoting a type of acid
- persulphate — a sulphuric acid salt of a base peroxide
- peru balsam — an aromatic balsam that is obtained from the tropical South American leguminous tree Myroxylon pereirae and is similar to balsam of Tolu
- pervasively — spread throughout: The corruption is so pervasive that it is accepted as the way to do business.
- pervouralsk — a city in the central RSFSR, in the Ural Mountains in Asia.
- pescatarian — a person whose diet is mostly vegetarian but includes fish and seafood.
- pescetarian — a person whose diet is mostly vegetarian but includes fish and seafood.
- pessimistic — pertaining to or characterized by pessimism or the tendency to expect only bad outcomes; gloomy; joyless; unhopeful: His pessimistic outlook kept him from applying for jobs for which he was perfectly qualified.
- pestiferous — bringing or bearing disease.
- pestologist — a person who analyses and researches pests and how to get rid of them
- pet scanner — a tomographic imaging device that yields visual information about the ongoing activity of the brain: positron-emitting isotopes, incorporated into biologically important compounds, are injected intravenously or administered by inhalation, and the resultant gamma radiation is sensed by detectors and converted into computer-generated images of blood flow, oxygen utilization, glucose uptake, etc.
- pet sitting — the act of caring for a pet in its own home while the owner is away.
- peter snell — Peter (George) born 1938, New Zealand distance runner.
- petit fours — a small teacake, variously frosted and decorated.
- petitionist — a person who petitions or makes appeals or requests
- petits pois — small sweet fresh green peas
- petrarchism — the poetic style introduced by Petrarch and characteristic of his work, marked by complex grammatical structure, elaborate conceits, and conventionalized diction.
- petrarchist — a person who imitates the literary style employed by Petrarch, especially the poets of the English Renaissance who employed the Petrarchan sonnet style.
- petropounds — the multiples of the British pound as regarded in terms of income derived from petroleum
- pfeffernuss — a small, usually ball-shaped cookie flavored with cinnamon, allspice, anise, etc. and with black pepper, made esp. during the Christmas season
- phagocytose — phagocytize.
- phalanstery — the buildings occupied by a phalanx. the community itself.
- phanerogams — any of the Phanerogamia, a former primary division of plants comprising those having reproductive organs; a flowering plant or seed plant (opposed to cryptogam).
- phariseeism — the principles and practices of the Pharisees.
- phase angle — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- phase space — a hypothetical space constructed so as to have as many coordinates as are necessary to define the state of a given substance or system.
- phase speed — the speed at which the phase of a wave is propagated, the product of the frequency times the wavelength. This is the quantity that is determined by methods using interference. In a dispersive medium it differs from the group speed
- phd student — a person who is studying for a PhD
- pheneticist — a person who makes classifications in the field of biology according to phenetic criteria
- phidippides — the Athenian runner who secured aid from Sparta in the struggle between the Athenians and the Persians 490 b.c.
- philatelist — the collecting of stamps and other postal matter as a hobby or an investment.
- 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.