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

  • 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.
  • oneiroscopy — the interpretation or study of dreams
  • opalescence — exhibiting a play of colors like that of the opal.
  • open prison — An open prison is a prison where there are fewer restrictions on prisoners than in a normal prison.
  • open season — a specific season or time of year when it is legal to catch or hunt for fish or game protected at all other times by the law.
  • open secret — something supposedly secret but actually known quite generally.
  • open sesame — any marvelously effective means for bringing about a desired result: Wealth is the open sesame to happiness.
  • open source — Computers. pertaining to or denoting software whose source code is available free of charge to the public to use, copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute.
  • open stance — a batting stance in which the front foot is farther from the inside of the batter's box than the back foot.
  • open string — a staircase string whose top follows the profile of the steps in such a way that the treads project beyond its outer face.
  • open switch — (IBM, probably from railways) An unresolved question, issue, or problem.
  • open system — a region separated from its surroundings by a boundary that admits a transfer of matter or energy across it.
  • open-source — Computers. pertaining to or denoting software whose source code is available free of charge to the public to use, copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute.
  • 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.
  • openwindows — (operating system)   A graphical user interface server for Sun workstations which handles SunView, NeWS and X Window System protocols.
  • operoseness — (archaic) The state of being operose; tedium.
  • opinionates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of opinionate.
  • opisthokont — (biology) Any of very many eukaryotes whose flagellate cells propel themselves with a single posterior flagellum.
  • opportunism — the policy or practice, as in politics, business, or one's personal affairs, of adapting actions, decisions, etc., to expediency or effectiveness regardless of the sacrifice of ethical principles.
  • opportunist — a person who practices opportunism, or the policy of adapting actions, decisions, etc., to effectiveness regardless of the sacrifice of ethical principles: He is an extreme opportunist and always thinks the ends justify the means.
  • oppositions — the action of opposing, resisting, or combating.
  • oppressions — Plural form of oppression.
  • ornithopods — Plural form of ornithopod.
  • ostpreussen — a former province in NE Germany: an enclave separated from Germany by the Polish Corridor; now divided between Poland and the Russian Federation. 14,283 sq. mi. (36,993 sq. km). Capital: Königsberg.
  • outpatients — Plural form of outpatient.
  • outpourings — Plural form of outpouring.
  • outsleeping — Present participle of outsleep.
  • outspanning — Present participle of outspan.
  • outspeeding — Present participle of outspeed.
  • outspokenly — In an outspoken manner.
  • overrespond — to respond too dramatically
  • overspender — someone who overspends
  • oviposition — to deposit or lay eggs, especially by means of an ovipositor.
  • oyster pink — a delicate pinkish-white colour, sometimes with a greyish tinge
  • 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.
  • panglossian — characterized by or given to extreme optimism, especially in the face of unrelieved hardship or adversity.
  • pantisocrat — someone who believes, or takes part, in pantisocracy
  • pantologist — a systematic view of all human knowledge.
  • pantomimist — a person who acts in pantomime.
  • pantoscopic — showing a wide-angled view
  • paperperson — a person who delivers newspapers to customers door to door.
  • parabolanus — a member of an early Christian brotherhood in Alexandria and Constantinople who helped the sick in the times of plague
  • paranephros — the adrenal gland
  • parasensory — extrasensory.
  • parasol ant — leaf-cutting ant.
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