11-letter words containing s, p, r
- mis-phrased — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
- misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
- misanthropy — hatred, dislike, or distrust of humankind.
- misappraise — to estimate the monetary value of; determine the worth of; assess: We had an expert appraise the house before we bought it.
- misoprostol — A drug used for various purposes including the prevention of drug-induced gastric ulcers and the inducement of abortions, having the chemical formula C22H38O5.
- misperceive — to understand or perceive incorrectly; misunderstand.
- mispersuade — to persuade wrongly
- mispurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- misreported — Simple past tense and past participle of misreport.
- mistempered — Simple past tense and past participle of mistemper.
- mitropoulos — Dimitri [dih-mee-tree;; Greek th ee-mee-tree] /dɪˈmi tri;; Greek ðiˈmi tri/ (Show IPA), 1897–1960, Greek symphony orchestra conductor in the U.S.
- monitorship — (especially formerly) a student appointed to assist in the conduct of a class or school, as to help take attendance or keep order.
- monocarpous — having a gynoecium that forms only a single ovary.
- monostrophe — a poem in which all the strophes or stanzas are of the same metrical form.
- morse taper — a taper that is one of a standard series used in the shank of tools to fit a matching taper in the mandrel of a machine tool
- mosstrooper — a marauder who operated in the mosses, or bogs, of the border between England and Scotland in the 17th century.
- mother ship — a vessel or craft that services others operating far from a home port or center.
- motherships — Plural form of mothership.
- motorsports — Plural form of motorsport.
- mu shu pork — moo shu pork
- mudskippers — Plural form of mudskipper.
- mudspringer — mudskipper.
- multiparous — of or relating to a multipara.
- multiperson — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
- multipliers — Plural form of multiplier.
- multispiral — having several spiral coils
- museography — The systematic description of objects in museums.
- music paper — paper ruled or printed with a stave for writing music
- mustard pot — a small pot, of glass, silver, etc, placed on the table to serve mustard
- my pretties — a way of addressing a group of people
- myographist — a person who has expert knowledge of muscles
- nanospheres — Plural form of nanosphere.
- nasal drops — Nasal drops are medicine that you put directly in your nose one drop at a time.
- nasal spray — a liquid medication that can be atomized and inhaled into or through the nose.
- nasopharynx — the part of the pharynx behind and above the soft palate, directly continuous with the nasal passages. Compare oropharynx (def 2).
- naturopaths — Plural form of naturopath.
- necropoleis — Plural form of necropolis.
- necroscopic — of or relating to a necropsy or postmortem examination
- nephrolepis — any fern of the tropical genus Nephrolepis, some species of which are grown as ornamental greenhouse or house plants for their handsome deeply-cut drooping fronds: family Polypodiaceae
- nephroliths — a renal calculus; kidney stone.
- nephroscope — (surgery) An instrument used to examine the kidney through an inserted tube.
- nephrostome — Zoology. the ciliated opening of a nephridium into the coelom.
- neuroplasty — Any surgery to repair nerve tissue.
- neutrophils — Plural form of neutrophil.
- neutrosophy — (philosophy) (From Latin "neuter" - neutral, Greek "sophia" - skill/wisdom) A branch of philosophy, introduced by Florentin Smarandache in 1980, which studies the origin, nature, and scope of neutralities, as well as their interactions with different ideational spectra. Neutrosophy considers a proposition, theory, event, concept, or entity, "A" in relation to its opposite, "Anti-A" and that which is not A, "Non-A", and that which is neither "A" nor "Anti-A", denoted by "Neut-A". Neutrosophy is the basis of neutrosophic logic, neutrosophic probability, neutrosophic set, and neutrosophic statistics.
- newspersons — Plural form of newsperson.
- nicol prism — one of a pair of prisms used to produce and analyze plane-polarized light in a polarizing microscope. Also called Nicol. Compare polarizer (def 1).
- nippleworts — Plural form of nipplewort.
- nociceptors — Plural form of nociceptor.
- noncomposer — a person who is not a composer