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11-letter words containing s, p, o, n, h

  • old spanish — the Spanish language of the 12th to the 16th centuries. Abbreviation: OSp.
  • on the cusp — If you say that someone or something is on the cusp, you mean they are between two states, or are about to be in a particular state.
  • on the piss — drinking alcohol, esp in large quantities
  • on the spin — one after another
  • on the spot — Radio, Television. pertaining to the point of origin of a local broadcast. broadcast between announced programs.
  • on-the-spot — done or occurring at the time or place in question: an on-the-spot recording.
  • open switch — (IBM, probably from railways) An unresolved question, issue, or problem.
  • openinsight — (programming, database)   The workflow-enabled Windows 95/Windows NT version of Advanced Revelation, featuring native support for Lotus Notes, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle and ODBC. OpenInsight is available from Revelation Software.
  • opisthokont — (biology) Any of very many eukaryotes whose flagellate cells propel themselves with a single posterior flagellum.
  • ornithopods — Plural form of ornithopod.
  • ozonosphere — Meteorology. the layer of the upper atmosphere where most atmospheric ozone is concentrated, from about 8 to 30 miles (12 to 48 km) above the earth, with the maximum ozone concentration occurring at an altitude of about 12 miles (19 km).
  • paint horse — paint (def 6).
  • panchreston — a proposed explanation intended to address a complex problem by trying to account for all possible contingencies but typically proving to be too broadly conceived and therefore oversimplified to be of any practical use.
  • panel house — a brothel having rooms with secret entrances, as sliding panels, for admitting panel thieves.
  • paranephros — the adrenal gland
  • parishioner — one of the community or inhabitants of a parish.
  • patron-ship — a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
  • patroonship — a person who held an estate in land with certain manorial privileges granted under the old Dutch governments of New York and New Jersey.
  • peach stone — the stone in the centre of the fruit the peach
  • phanerogams — any of the Phanerogamia, a former primary division of plants comprising those having reproductive organs; a flowering plant or seed plant (opposed to cryptogam).
  • phitsanulok — a city in central Thailand.
  • 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
  • phoniatrics — the study and treatment of voice disorders.
  • phonologist — a specialist in phonology.
  • phosphonium — the positively charged group PH 4 + .
  • photosensor — a photocell used to detect light.
  • physiognomy — the face or countenance, especially when considered as an index to the character: a fierce physiognomy.
  • pitchperson — a pitchman or pitchwoman
  • polyphonist — a musical composer of or theorist in polyphony
  • polyphonous — Music. polyphonic composition; counterpoint.
  • port hudson — a village in SE Louisiana, on the Mississippi, N of Baton Rouge: siege during the U.S. Civil War 1863.
  • port neches — a town in SE Texas.
  • potshotting — the act of taking potshots
  • preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
  • pro-chinese — the standard language of China, based on the speech of Beijing; Mandarin.
  • prochronism — a chronological error in which a person, event, etc., is assigned a date earlier than the actual one; prolepsis.
  • prognathism — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
  • prognathous — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
  • prophesying — to foretell or predict.
  • prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
  • prosobranch — a gastropod mollusc of the subclass Prosobranchia, which includes conches, limpets, abalones, and numerous aquatic and terrestrial snails
  • pseudophone — an instrument for producing illusory auditory localization by changing the relationship between the receptor and the actual direction of the sound.
  • psyche knot — a woman's hairdo in which a knot or coil of hair projects from the back of the head.
  • psychoanal. — psychoanalysis
  • psychogenic — having origin in the mind or in a mental condition or process: a psychogenic disorder.
  • psychomancy — occult communication between souls or with spirits.
  • psychonomic — of or relating to psychonomics
  • psychotogen — a substance that causes a psychotic reaction.
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