11-letter words containing s, p, u, t, n
- postulating — to ask, demand, or claim.
- postulation — to ask, demand, or claim.
- posturizing — to posture; pose.
- pound scots — pound2 (def 7).
- preconquest — of or relating to the time before the conquest of one people, region, or country by another.
- presolution — the act of solving a problem, question, etc.: The situation is approaching solution.
- presumption — the act of presuming.
- pretentious — characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-important waiter.
- procrustean — pertaining to or suggestive of Procrustes.
- productions — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
- prognathous — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- prosecuting — carrying out a prosecution
- prosecution — Law. the institution and carrying on of legal proceedings against a person. the body of officials by whom such proceedings are instituted and carried on.
- protandrous — (of hermaphrodite or monoecious plants) maturing the anthers before the stigma
- protogynous — of or relating to a flower in which the shedding of pollen occurs after the stigma has stopped being receptive; having female sex organs maturing before the male.
- publishment — publication.
- puget sound — an arm of the Pacific, in NW Washington.
- pumpstation — A pumpstation is a place with pumps and equipment for pumping fluids from one place to another.
- punctilious — extremely attentive to punctilios; strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions.
- punctualist — a person who is concerned with points of conduct
- punji stake — a sharp bamboo stake concealed in high grass at an angle so as to gash the feet and legs of enemy soldiers and often coated with excrement so as to cause an infected wound.
- pursuant to — legal: in accordance with
- push-button — operated by or as if by push buttons: push-button tuning.
- pustulation — the formation or breaking out of pustules.
- put down as — If you put someone or something down as a particular type of person or thing, you consider that they are that thing.
- put on airs — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- putrescence — becoming putrid; undergoing putrefaction.
- pythonesque — denoting a kind of humour that is absurd and unpredictable; zany; surreal
- quintuplets — Plural form of quintuplet.
- santa paula — a city in SW California.
- sculpturing — the act of sculpturing or carving
- sempiternum — a type of durable woollen fabric popular in the 17th century
- septenarius — a verse consisting of seven feet, usually printed in two lines: used especially in Latin poems.
- shine up to — to give forth or glow with light; shed or cast light.
- snap out of — to make a sudden, sharp, distinct sound; crack, as a whip; crackle.
- soup tureen — a large bowl with a lid, from which soup is served at the table
- southampton — Henry Wriothesley [rahy-uh ths-lee] /ˈraɪ əθs li/ (Show IPA), 3rd Earl of, 1573–1624, English nobleman, soldier, and patron of writers, including William Shakespeare.
- spartanburg — a city in NW South Carolina.
- speculating — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
- sperm count — the number of spermatozoa in an amount of semen, used as an indication of a man's fertility
- spiculation — formation into spicules.
- spitzenburg — any of several red or yellow varieties of apple that ripen in the autumn.
- spontaneous — coming or resulting from a natural impulse or tendency; without effort or premeditation; natural and unconstrained; unplanned: a spontaneous burst of applause.
- sporulation — to produce spores.
- stand up to — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
- standing up — to cease to live; undergo the complete and permanent cessation of all vital functions; become dead.
- stanley cup — a trophy emblematic since 1926 of the championship of the National Hockey League, composed of Canadian and U.S. professional teams.
- stickup man — a man who commits a stickup.
- stipulating — to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of agreement (often followed by for).