11-letter words containing s, p, o, i, l, r
- protrusible — able to be thrust outwards
- provisional — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
- prusik loop — a loop formed with a sliding knot that locks under pressure in which a climber can place his foot in order to stand or ascend a rope
- pyroclastic — composed chiefly of fragments of volcanic origin, as agglomerate, tuff, and certain other rocks; volcaniclastic.
- rapscallion — a rascal; rogue; scamp.
- responsible — answerable or accountable, as for something within one's power, control, or management (often followed by to or for): He is responsible to the president for his decisions.
- responsibly — answerable or accountable, as for something within one's power, control, or management (often followed by to or for): He is responsible to the president for his decisions.
- retail shop — a shop which sells goods to individual customers
- rhapsodical — extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic.
- rhinoplasty — plastic surgery of the nose.
- 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.
- school trip — educational outing
- scorpionfly — any of several harmless insects of the order Mecoptera, the male of certain species having a reproductive structure that resembles the sting of a scorpion.
- scripholder — a person who owns a scrip or scrips
- scripophile — a person who practices scripophily.
- scripophily — the collecting by hobbyists of old stock certificates and bonds that have no intrinsic value other than their aesthetic appeal or relative rarity.
- scriptorial — of or relating to a scriptorium
- self-profit — Often, profits. pecuniary gain resulting from the employment of capital in any transaction. Compare gross profit, net profit. the ratio of such pecuniary gain to the amount of capital invested. returns, proceeds, or revenue, as from property or investments.
- semipopular — relatively popular; quite popular
- 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.
- sialography — radiography of salivary glands once they have been injected with a contrast medium
- siderophile — (of a cell or tissue) having an affinity for iron.
- silverpoint — a technique of drawing with a silver stylus on specially prepared paper.
- slipperwort — any of several tropical American plants belonging to the genus Calceolaria, of the figwort family, having opposite or whorled leaves and slipper-shaped flowers.
- soap boiler — a manufacturer of soap
- soldiership — a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
- spermophile — any of various burrowing rodents of the squirrel family, especially of the genus Spermophilus (or Citellus), sometimes sufficiently numerous to do much damage to crops, as the ground squirrels and susliks.
- spider hole — a foxhole with a camouflaged lid or cover in which a sniper hides
- spin bowler — a bowler who specializes in bowling balls with a spinning motion
- spinal cord — the cord of nerve tissue extending through the spinal canal of the spinal column.
- spiraliform — having or resembling spiral lines
- spirillosis — a bacterial disease
- spiroplasma — any of numerous bacteria of the genus Spiroplasma that have no cell walls or flagella and are parasitic in plants and arthropods.
- sporulation — to produce spores.
- sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation
- spring lock — a lock that fastens automatically by a spring.
- spring roll — an egg roll.
- stipuliform — shaped like a stipule.
- subtropical — bordering on the tropics; nearly tropical.
- superpolite — extremely polite
- tripersonal — consisting of or existing in three persons, as the Godhead.
- tripetalous — having three petals.
- triphyllous — having three leaves.
- triptolemus — a favorite of Demeter and the inventor of the plow and patron of agriculture, connected with the Eleusinian mysteries.
- trisepalous — having three sepals.
- unipersonal — consisting of or existing as one person only.
- very pistol — a special pistol which fires coloured flares for signalling at night, esp at sea