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11-letter words containing s, p, i, r, l, a

  • prickly ash — Also called Northern prickly ash, toothache tree. a citrus shrub or small tree, Zanthoxylum americanum, having aromatic leaves and usually prickly branches.
  • probabilism — Philosophy. the doctrine, introduced by the Skeptics, that certainty is impossible and that probability suffices to govern faith and practice.
  • pronatalism — the policy or practice of encouraging the bearing of children, especially government support of a higher birthrate.
  • pronatalist — the policy or practice of encouraging the bearing of children, especially government support of a higher birthrate.
  • pronominals — Grammar. pertaining to, resembling, derived from, or containing a pronoun: “My” in “my book” is a pronominal adjective. “There” is a pronominal adverb.
  • prophylaxis — Medicine/Medical. the preventing of disease. the prevention of a specific disease, as by studying the biological behavior, transmission, etc., of its causative agent and applying a series of measures against it.
  • prosaically — commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
  • provisional — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
  • psaligraphy — the art of cutting out silhouettes
  • pyroclastic — composed chiefly of fragments of volcanic origin, as agglomerate, tuff, and certain other rocks; volcaniclastic.
  • rapscallion — a rascal; rogue; scamp.
  • 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
  • res publica — the state, republic, or commonwealth
  • retail shop — a shop which sells goods to individual customers
  • rhapsodical — extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic.
  • rhinoplasty — plastic surgery of the nose.
  • ripplegrass — English plantain.
  • rupes altai — a mountain range in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 315 miles (507 km) long.
  • saline drip — the usually intravenous drop-by-drop administration of an isotonic solution of sodium chloride in distilled water
  • saprolegnia — a variety of fungus
  • sapropelite — a foul-smelling mud
  • scalpriform — chisel-shaped, as the incisors of certain rodents.
  • scholarship — learning; knowledge acquired by study; the academic attainments of a scholar.
  • scriptorial — of or relating to a scriptorium
  • self-praise — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
  • semipopular — relatively popular; quite popular
  • sempiternal — everlasting; eternal.
  • septemviral — of or relating to septemvirs or a septemvirate.
  • septifragal — (of a capsule) dehiscing by breaking away from the partitions but remaining attached to the common axis; dehiscing at the valves or backs of the carpels but leaving the septa intact.
  • serial port — A serial port on a computer is a place where you can connect the computer to a device such as a modem or a mouse.
  • sharpeville — a town in E South Africa: scene of riots in 1960 (when 69 demonstrators died), 1984, and 1985 (when 19 died)
  • shinplaster — a plaster for the shin or leg.
  • sialography — radiography of salivary glands once they have been injected with a contrast medium
  • small print — text typewritten in a small-sized font
  • soap boiler — a manufacturer of soap
  • sparklingly — in a sparkling manner
  • specializer — a person who specializes in something
  • spectrality — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
  • specularity — the state of resembling a mirror
  • spermicidal — that kills sperm
  • spinal cord — the cord of nerve tissue extending through the spinal canal of the spinal column.
  • spinsterial — relating to a spinster
  • spiral gear — a type of helical gear used for transmitting power between shafts that are at an angle to each other.
  • spiraliform — having or resembling spiral lines
  • spirit lake — a lake in SW Washington, at the N foot of Mount St. Helens: site of devastation during 1980 eruptions of Mount St. Helens.
  • spirit lamp — a lamp that burns methylated or other spirits instead of oil
  • spiritually — of, relating to, or consisting of spirit; incorporeal.
  • spiritualty — Often, spiritualties. ecclesiastical property or revenue.
  • spiroplasma — any of numerous bacteria of the genus Spiroplasma that have no cell walls or flagella and are parasitic in plants and arthropods.
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