11-letter words containing s, t, r, i, p, e
- profeminist — advocating social, political, legal, and economic rights for women equal to those of men.
- progressist — a person favoring progress, as in politics; progressive.
- prompt side — the part of the stage that in the U.S. is to the right and in Britain to the left as one faces the audience. Abbreviation: P.S.
- proprieties — The proprieties are the standards of social behaviour which most people consider socially or morally acceptable.
- propriety's — conformity to established standards of good or proper behavior or manners.
- 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.
- prosecutrix — a female prosecutor or plaintiff
- proselyting — a person who has changed from one opinion, religious belief, sect, or the like, to another; convert.
- proselytism — the act or fact of becoming a proselyte; conversion.
- proselytize — try to attract converts
- prospecting — Usually, prospects. an apparent probability of advancement, success, profit, etc. the outlook for the future: good business prospects.
- prospection — anticipation
- prospective — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- prosthetics — an artificial body part; a prosthesis: Hundreds of amputees volunteered to test the new prosthetics.
- prosthetist — a person skilled in making or fitting prosthetic devices.
- prostituted — a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money; whore; harlot.
- prostomiate — having a prostomium.
- proteolysis — the breaking down of proteins into simpler compounds, as in digestion.
- protrusible — able to be thrust outwards
- proximities — nearness in place, time, order, occurrence, or relation.
- puerilities — the state or quality of being a child.
- putrescible — liable to become putrid.
- reinspected — to look carefully at or over; view closely and critically: to inspect every part of the motor.
- reparations — the making of amends for wrong or injury done: reparation for an injustice.
- repetiteuse — a female repetiteur, one who rehearses opera singers
- repetitious — full of repetition, especially unnecessary and tedious repetition: a repetitious account of their vacation trip.
- rescription — a reply or answering of a letter
- respiration — the act of respiring; inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing.
- respiratory — pertaining to or serving for respiration: respiratory disease.
- rest period — a period of rest
- retail shop — a shop which sells goods to individual customers
- retinispora — any member of the genus Retinispora, of conifers which grow in the east of Asia and in the east and west of North America
- retinoscope — an apparatus that determines the refractive power of the eye by observing the lights and shadows on the pupil when a mirror illumines the retina; skiascope.
- retinoscopy — an objective method of determining the refractive error of an eye.
- rh positive — See under Rh factor.
- rh-positive — See under Rh factor.
- rheotropism — the effect of a current of water upon the direction of plant growth.
- rocket ship — a rocket-propelled aircraft or spacecraft.
- rope stitch — (in embroidery) a stitch formed from the entwining of stitches.
- rupes altai — a mountain range in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 315 miles (507 km) long.
- sapropelite — a foul-smelling mud
- scatter pin — a woman's small ornamental pin, usually worn with other similar pins on a dress, suit jacket, etc.
- self-profit — Often, profits. pecuniary gain resulting from the employment of capital in any transaction. Compare gross profit, net profit. the ratio of such pecuniary gain to the amount of capital invested. returns, proceeds, or revenue, as from property or investments.
- semiprivate — having some degree of privacy but not fully private, as a hospital room with fewer beds than a ward.
- sempiternal — everlasting; eternal.
- sempiternum — a type of durable woollen fabric popular in the 17th century
- sempstering — the profession of being a tailor
- senatorship — the office or position of a senator
- septembrist — a person who instigated or took part in the September Massacre.