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11-letter words containing s, p, o, r, a, d

  • drop astern — to fall back to the stern (of another vessel)
  • drosophilas — Plural form of drosophila.
  • dry compass — a compass having a compass card mounted on pivots.
  • dry shampoo — a product in powder or spray form that you can use to clean hair without wetting it
  • duplicators — Plural form of duplicator.
  • escape road — a road, usually ending in a pile of sand, provided on a hill for a driver to drive into if his brakes fail or on a bend if he loses control of the turn
  • graded post — a position in a school having special responsibility for which additional payment is given
  • handyperson — a person who is practiced at doing maintenance work.
  • hard porn's — hard-core pornography.
  • harpsichord — a keyboard instrument, precursor of the piano, in which the strings are plucked by leather or quill points connected with the keys, in common use from the 16th to the 18th century, and revived in the 20th.
  • heptandrous — (of a flower) having seven stamens
  • horn-spread — (of a horned creature) the distance between the outermost tips of the horns.
  • hydroplanes — Plural form of hydroplane.
  • ideopraxist — a person who is impelled to carry out an idea
  • isodiaphere — one of two or more nuclides in which the difference between the number of neutrons and the number of protons is the same
  • jeopardised — Simple past tense and past participle of jeopardise.
  • jeopardizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jeopardize.
  • leopardskin — the skin of a leopard
  • loudspeaker — any of various devices, usually electronic, by which speech, music, etc., can be intensified and made audible throughout a room, hall, or the like.
  • macropodous — (of a leaf) having a long stalk.
  • mustard pot — a small pot, of glass, silver, etc, placed on the table to serve mustard
  • nasal drops — Nasal drops are medicine that you put directly in your nose one drop at a time.
  • old persian — an ancient West Iranian language attested by cuneiform inscriptions. Abbreviation: OPers.
  • paramastoid — of or relating to the part of the skull next to the mastoid process
  • parotiditis — inflammation of a parotid.
  • parson bird — tui.
  • pass around — distribute, circulate
  • patio doors — doors to an area adjoining a house, esp one that is paved and used for outdoor activities
  • pentandrous — of or pertaining to the order of plants Pentandria, characterized by having five stamens
  • personal ad — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
  • piss around — If you say that someone pisses around or pisses about, you mean they waste a lot of time doing unimportant things.
  • polyandrist — a woman who practices or favors polyandry.
  • polyandrous — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or practicing polyandry; polyandric.
  • pond-skater — any of various heteropterous insects of the family Gerrididae, esp Gerris lacustris (common pond-skater), having a slender hairy body and long hairy legs with which they skim about on the surface of ponds
  • postal card — a card sold by the post office with a stamp already printed on it.
  • preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
  • predisposal — to give an inclination or tendency to beforehand; make susceptible: Genetic factors may predispose human beings to certain metabolic diseases.
  • prison yard — a piece of enclosed ground attached to a prison, where prisoners may take exercise at certain times
  • propagandas — information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
  • prosauropod — a herbivorous dinosaur of the Triassic and early Jurassic periods
  • protandrous — (of hermaphrodite or monoecious plants) maturing the anthers before the stigma
  • pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
  • psychodrama — a method of group psychotherapy in which participants take roles in improvisational dramatizations of emotionally charged situations.
  • push around — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
  • radarscopes — Plural form of radarscope.
  • rhapsodical — extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic.
  • safe period — an interval of the menstrual cycle when fertilization is considered to be least likely, usually a number of days prior and subsequent to the onset of menstruation.
  • sand hopper — beach flea.
  • sand-groper — a native of the arid region of Western Australia.
  • sap orchard — sugarbush (def 2).
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