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

  • captainship — captaincy.
  • captionless — (of a cartoon) having no caption
  • carnaptious — ill-tempered or cantankerous
  • carpathians — a mountain range in central Europe, extending from N Slovakia to central Romania. Highest peak, Gerlachovka, 8737 feet (2663 meters).
  • caspian sea — a salt lake between SE Europe and Asia: the largest inland sea in the world; fed mainly by the River Volga. Area: 394 299 sq km (152 239 sq miles)
  • cataphonics — catacoustics
  • cenospecies — a species related to another by the ability to interbreed
  • centipoises — Plural form of centipoise.
  • ceratopsian — resembling or belonging to the Ceratopsia, a suborder of herbivorous dinosaurs characterized by their parrot-like beaks, horns, and neck frills
  • chainplates — Plural form of chainplate.
  • chairperson — The chairperson of a meeting, committee, or organization is the person in charge of it.
  • champignons — Plural form of champignon.
  • championess — a female champion
  • chaperonins — Plural form of chaperonin.
  • checkpoints — Plural form of checkpoint.
  • chimpanzees — Plural form of chimpanzee.
  • chinquapins — Plural form of chinquapin.
  • chirrupings — Plural form of chirruping.
  • chokepoints — Plural form of chokepoint.
  • ciclosporin — a drug extracted from a fungus and used after organ transplantation to suppress the body's immune mechanisms, and so prevent rejection of an organ
  • cinemascope — an anamorphic process of wide-screen film projection in which an image of approximately twice the usual width is squeezed into a 35mm frame and then screened by a projector having complementary lenses
  • citizenship — If you have citizenship of a country, you are legally accepted as belonging to it.
  • clasp knife — a large knife with one or more blades or other devices folding into the handle
  • clothes-pin — a device, such as a forked piece of wood or plastic, for fastening articles to a clothesline.
  • clothespins — Plural form of clothespin.
  • clubmanship — the status of belonging to an active club
  • coil spring — a helical spring formed from wire
  • colophonies — Plural form of colophony.
  • common lisp — (language)   A dialect of Lisp defined by a consortium of companies brought together in 1981 by the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Companies included Symbolics, Lisp Machines, Inc., Digital Equipment Corporation, Bell Labs., Xerox, Hewlett-Packard, Lawrence Livermore Labs., Carnegie-Mellon University, Stanford University, Yale, MIT and USC Berkeley. Common Lisp is lexically scoped by default but can be dynamically scoped. Common Lisp is a large and complex language, fairly close to a superset of MacLisp. It features lexical binding, data structures using defstruct and setf, closures, multiple values, types using declare and a variety of numerical types. Function calls allow "&optional", keyword and "&rest" arguments. Generic sequence can either be a list or an array. It provides formatted printing using escape characters. Common LISP now includes CLOS, an extended LOOP macro, condition system, pretty printing and logical pathnames. Implementations include AKCL, CCL, CLiCC, CLISP, CLX, CMU Common Lisp, DCL, KCL, MCL and WCL. Mailing list: <[email protected]>.
  • comparisons — Plural form of comparison.
  • compassings — contrivances or schemes
  • compendious — containing or stating the essentials of a subject in a concise form; succinct
  • compendiums — Plural form of compendium.
  • complainers — Plural form of complainer.
  • complaisant — If you are complaisant, you are willing to accept what other people are doing without complaining.
  • completions — Plural form of completion.
  • complexions — Plural form of complexion.
  • compliances — Plural form of compliance.
  • compliments — a greeting of respect or regard
  • compositing — made up of disparate or separate parts or elements; compound: a composite drawing; a composite philosophy.
  • composition — When you talk about the composition of something, you are referring to the way in which its various parts are put together and arranged.
  • compost bin — a container designed to expedite the development of compost
  • compressing — Present participle of compress.
  • compression — the act of compressing or the condition of being compressed
  • compulsions — Plural form of compulsion.
  • con spirito — (to be performed) in a spirited or lively manner (also in the phrases allegro con spirito, presto con spirito)
  • conceptions — Plural form of conception.
  • conceptious — prolific or fruitful
  • condisciple — a fellow disciple or a fellow student
  • conniptions — Plural form of conniption.
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