11-letter words containing s, t, e, r, o, p
- extemporise — (intransitive) To do something, particularly to perform or speak, without prior planning or thought; to act in an impromptu manner; to improvise.
- field sport — Hunting, shooting birds, and fishing with a rod are referred to as field sports when they are done mainly for pleasure.
- finger post — a post with one or more directional signs, terminating in a pointed finger or hand.
- foetiparous — (of a marsupial) bearing young before they are fully developed.
- footscraper — a metal bar, set in a small frame and attached to a doorstep, used in cleaning mud from the bottoms of the shoes before entering a house.
- forest park — a city in NW Georgia.
- foretopmast — (nautical) The mast above the foretop.
- foretopsail — (nautical) the sail draped from the foretopmast.
- fort casper — a fort in central Wyoming, near Casper: an important post on the Oregon Trail.
- fortepianos — Plural form of fortepiano.
- four-poster — a bed with four corner posts, as for supporting a canopy, curtains, etc.
- frost grape — riverbank grape.
- gastroscope — a lighted flexible tubular instrument passed through the mouth for examining the esophagus, stomach, and duodenum.
- geostrophic — of or relating to the balance between the Coriolis force and the horizontal pressure force in the atmosphere.
- go to press — When a newspaper or magazine goes to press, it starts being printed.
- gob-stopper — a large piece of hard candy.
- gobstoppers — Plural form of gobstopper.
- graded post — a position in a school having special responsibility for which additional payment is given
- graptolites — Plural form of graptolite.
- helicopters — Plural form of helicopter.
- heliotropes — Plural form of heliotrope.
- hemipterous — belonging or pertaining to the Hemiptera, an order of insects having forewings that are thickened and leathery at the base and membranous at the apex, comprising the true bugs.
- heptamerous — consisting of or divided into seven parts.
- heptandrous — (of a flower) having seven stamens
- heteroplasm — (pathology) Tissue growing in a part of the body where it does not normally occur.
- heteroptics — incorrect or perverted perception of what is seen; hallucinatory vision.
- heterospory — the production of both microspores and megaspores.
- hierophants — Plural form of hierophant.
- hip-shooter — a person who acts or talks in a rash, impetuous way
- hippocrates — ("Father of Medicine") c460–c377 b.c, Greek physician.
- homopterans — Plural form of homopteran.
- homopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Homoptera, an order of insects closely related to the hemipterous insects (in some classifications a suborder of Hemiptera) but having membranous forewings and hind wings, including the aphids, cicadas, leafhoppers, planthoppers, and scale insects.
- hospitaller — a member of the religious and military order (Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
- house party — the guests at such an affair or party: The house party goes sailing today.
- houseparent — one of a married couple responsible for a group of young people, as students, living in a dormitory, hostel, etc., sometimes acting solely as an advisor, but often serving as host or hostess, chaperon, housekeeper, etc.
- hydrophytes — Plural form of hydrophyte.
- hygrophytes — Plural form of hygrophyte.
- hyperbolist — One who uses hyperbole; an exaggerator.
- hypocenters — Plural form of hypocenter.
- hypocretins — Plural form of hypocretin.
- hypostrophe — the achievement of a patient turning himself or herself over
- hypsometers — Plural form of hypsometer.
- hypsometric — Of or relating to the use of the hypsometer; hypsographic.
- ideopraxist — a person who is impelled to carry out an idea
- impersonate — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
- importances — the quality or state of being important; consequence; significance.
- improvisate — To improvise; to extemporize.
- in prospect — expected, predicted
- interlopers — Plural form of interloper.
- interposing — Present participle of interpose.