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11-letter words containing s, t, p

  • neopopulist — pertaining to a revival of populism, especially a sophisticated form appealing to commonplace values and prejudices.
  • neoptolemus — the son of Achilles, who slew Priam at the fall of Troy.
  • nephroliths — a renal calculus; kidney stone.
  • 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.
  • new planets — the outer planets Uranus, Neptune, and (formerly) Pluto, only discovered comparatively recently
  • nightscopes — Plural form of nightscope.
  • nippleworts — Plural form of nipplewort.
  • nociceptors — Plural form of nociceptor.
  • non-suspect — to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof: to suspect a person of murder.
  • nondescript — of no recognized, definite, or particular type or kind: a nondescript novel; a nondescript color.
  • nonhospital — not related to, identified with, or taking place in a hospital
  • nonpartisan — not partisan; objective.
  • nonpositive — (of a real number) less than or equal to zero.
  • nonsporting — engaging in, disposed to, or interested in open-air or athletic sports: a rugged, sporting man.
  • north slope — the northern coastal area of Alaska, rich in oil and natural gas: so called because it is N of the Brooks Range sloping down to the Arctic Ocean.
  • notaphilist — a person who studies or collects paper money
  • nudist camp — a resort where nudism is practiced
  • nympholepts — Plural form of nympholept.
  • object lisp — (language)   An object-oriented Lisp developed by Lisp Machines Inc. (LMI) in about 1987. Object Lisp was based on nested closures and operator shadowing. Several competing object-orientated extensions to Lisp were around at the time, such as Flavors, in use by Symbolics; Common Objects, developed by Hewlett-Packard; and CommonLoops in use by Xerox. LMI submitted the specification as a candidate for an object-oriented standard for Common Lisp, but it was defeated in favour of CLOS.
  • obstipation — obstinate constipation.
  • occipitalis — A muscle of the head, sometimes considered to be part of the occipitofrontal muscle.
  • occupations — Plural form of occupation.
  • oenophilist — a person who enjoys wines, usually as a connoisseur.
  • oligopolist — A member of an oligopoly; one of a small number of sellers with undue influence over a market.
  • omnipresent — present everywhere at the same time: the omnipresent God.
  • on the cusp — If you say that someone or something is on the cusp, you mean they are between two states, or are about to be in a particular state.
  • on the piss — drinking alcohol, esp in large quantities
  • 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.
  • open secret — something supposedly secret but actually known quite generally.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • operatories — a room or other area with special equipment and facilities, as for dental surgery, scientific experiments, or the like.
  • ophiologist — the branch of herpetology dealing with snakes.
  • ophthalmist — an eye expert; an oculist
  • 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.
  • opisthosoma — the abdomen of a spider or other arachnid
  • 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.
  • optometrist — a licensed professional who practices optometry.
  • ornithopods — Plural form of ornithopod.
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