11-letter words containing s, p, i, e, l, r
- pill-pusher — a medical doctor, especially one who too readily prescribes medication.
- pilot raise — a small raise intended to be enlarged later.
- pipistrelle — any of numerous insectivorous bats of the genus Pipistrellus, especially P. pipistrellus of Europe and Asia.
- plagiarised — to take and use by plagiarism.
- 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.
- plasticizer — any of a group of substances that are used in plastics or other materials to impart viscosity, flexibility, softness, or other properties to the finished product.
- plasticware — knives, forks, spoons, cups, etc., made of plastic: a picnic hamper with plasticware for six.
- plastiqueur — a person, especially a terrorist, who makes, places, or detonates plastic bombs.
- 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.
- pleiomerous — (of a flower) having a greater than normal number of parts
- pleochroism — the property of certain crystals of exhibiting different colors when viewed from different directions under transmitted light. Compare dichroism (def 1), trichroism.
- plumigerous — wearing or possessing feathers
- pluriserial — having many series or rows
- plyometrics — a system of exercise in which the muscles are repeatedly stretched and suddenly contracted
- polariscope — an instrument for measuring or exhibiting the polarization of light or for examining substances in polarized light, often to determine stress and strain in glass and other substances.
- poltergeist — a ghost or spirit supposed to manifest its presence by noises, knockings, etc.
- polymerizes — to subject to polymerization.
- polyspermia — the secretion of an excessive amount of semen.
- posteriorly — situated behind or at the rear of; hinder (opposed to anterior).
- pre-islamic — existing prior to the ascendancy of Islam; pre-Muslim.
- 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.
- predisposal — to give an inclination or tendency to beforehand; make susceptible: Genetic factors may predispose human beings to certain metabolic diseases.
- prehensible — able to be seized or grasped.
- prelateship — the rank of a prelate
- presenility — premature old age.
- presolution — the act of solving a problem, question, etc.: The situation is approaching solution.
- presumingly — presumptuous.
- previsional — characteristic of prevision
- priest-hole — a secret chamber in certain houses in England, built as a hiding place for Roman Catholic priests when they were proscribed in the 16th and 17th centuries
- processible — capable of being processed.
- profusively — profuse; lavish; prodigal: profusive generosity.
- proliferous — proliferating.
- promiseless — without promise
- proselyting — a person who has changed from one opinion, religious belief, sect, or the like, to another; convert.
- proselytism — the act or fact of becoming a proselyte; conversion.
- proselytize — try to attract converts
- prosiliency — prominence
- proteolysis — the breaking down of proteins into simpler compounds, as in digestion.
- protrusible — able to be thrust outwards
- puerilities — the state or quality of being a child.
- pupil nurse — a nurse who is still undergoing medical training
- putrescible — liable to become putrid.
- reappraisal — the act of estimating or judging the nature or value of something or someone.
- recall slip — a printed piece of paper sent by library staff to a borrower's home address to remind them that a book is overdue
- replenished — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
- replenisher — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
- repressible — to keep under control, check, or suppress (desires, feelings, actions, tears, etc.).
- repressibly — in a repressible way