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11-letter words containing s, p, i, n, e

  • 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.
  • persorption — the deep penetration of a liquid into a highly porous solid, resulting in an intimate mixture.
  • 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.
  • pet sitting — the act of caring for a pet in its own home while the owner is away.
  • petitionist — a person who petitions or makes appeals or requests
  • pheneticist — a person who makes classifications in the field of biology according to phenetic criteria
  • 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.
  • phonematics — phonemics.
  • phonetastic — (communications)   A CTI product from Callware. Phonetastic employs if-then rules and customer records to tell those receiving calls who is calling (based on ANI and DNIS) and to determine how the call should be routed, e.g. to a certain sales representative or to the general sales department; receive high-priority treatment; receive a fax-back, etc.
  • phoneticism — a phonetic scheme of writing
  • picnic site — an attractive place for picnics
  • piebaldness — having patches of black and white or of other colors; parti-colored.
  • piedmontese — a native or inhabitant of Piedmont, Italy.
  • pierrefonds — a former city in S Quebec, Canada, now part of Montreal.
  • pigeon post — the use of homing pigeons to carry messages
  • pine siskin — a small, North American finch, Carduelis pinus, of coniferous forests, having yellow markings on the wings and tail.
  • pinkishness — a pinkish quality or colouring
  • pinnatisect — (of a leaf) divided in a pinnate manner.
  • pinocytoses — (of a cell) to take within by means of pinocytosis.
  • pitchperson — a pitchman or pitchwoman
  • 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.
  • 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
  • pneumonitis — inflammation of the lung caused by a virus or exposure to irritating substances.
  • poison bean — Also called bladderpod. a tall plant, Glottidium vesicaria, of the legume family, native to the southeastern U.S., having clusters of yellow flowers and pods containing highly poisonous seeds.
  • polygenesis — origin from more than one ancestral species or line.
  • ponderosity — of great weight; heavy; massive.
  • possessions — wealth or property
  • postediting — the act of editing after a piece of writing has been produced or printed by a machine
  • postexilian — being or occurring subsequent to the exile of the Jews in Babylonia 597–538 b.c.
  • postscenium — a wing on either side of the stage of an ancient Greek or Roman theatre where props could be stored and actors could prepare; a parascenium
  • posttension — (in prestressed-concrete construction) to apply tension to (reinforcing strands) after the concrete has set. Compare pretension2 (def 1).
  • postweaning — of, relating to, or occurring in the period following weaning
  • praenestine — of or relating to the ancient town of Praeneste in Italy, or to the Latin dialect spoken there.
  • pre-notions — a preconception.
  • pre-scoring — to record the sound of (a motion picture) before filming.
  • pre-selling — to sell in advance, as before manufacture or construction: to presell a planned house.
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