11-letter words containing s, u, t, a, p
- procrustean — pertaining to or suggestive of Procrustes.
- prognathous — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- protandrous — (of hermaphrodite or monoecious plants) maturing the anthers before the stigma
- puff pastry — a light, flaky, rich pastry made by rolling dough with butter and folding it to form layers: used for tarts, napoleons, etc.
- pulsatility — pulsating; throbbing.
- pumpstation — A pumpstation is a place with pumps and equipment for pumping fluids from one place to another.
- 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
- 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.
- pyrosulfate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid.
- quadruplets — Plural form of quadruplet.
- raptureless — without rapture
- rapturously — full of, feeling, or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight.
- rupes altai — a mountain range in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 315 miles (507 km) long.
- santa paula — a city in SW California.
- sapotaceous — belonging to the Sapotaceae, the sapodilla family of plants.
- scarlet cup — a small, fleshy, saucer-shaped fungus, Sarcoscypha coccinea, of the family Sarcoscyphaceae, marked by a scarlet inner surface and white exterior, seen on fallen branches in the spring.
- septenarius — a verse consisting of seven feet, usually printed in two lines: used especially in Latin poems.
- snap out of — to make a sudden, sharp, distinct sound; crack, as a whip; crackle.
- 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.
- spathaceous — of the nature of or resembling a spathe.
- spectacular — of or like a spectacle; marked by or given to an impressive, large-scale display.
- specularity — the state of resembling a mirror
- 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.
- speculatist — a person who speculates
- speculative — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
- speculatory — a place suitable for observation
- spiculation — formation into spicules.
- spiritually — of, relating to, or consisting of spirit; incorporeal.
- spiritualty — Often, spiritualties. ecclesiastical property or revenue.
- 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.
- sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation
- sprezzatura — effortlessness or ease, esp. in art or literature; careless grace; nonchalance
- stamp album — a book used by collectors of postage stamps to display and store their stamps
- 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.
- static dump — a transfer of the contents of computer memory made at a time when the process is guaranteed to be inactive, as at the end of a routine.
- stauroscope — an optical instrument for studying the crystal structure of minerals under polarized light
- 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).
- stipulation — a condition, demand, or promise in an agreement or contract.
- stirrup jar — pseudamphora.
- straight up — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.