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11-letter words containing t, o, p, s, e, c

  • 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.
  • 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 switch — (IBM, probably from railways) An unresolved question, issue, or problem.
  • orthopedics — (used with a singular verb) the medical specialty concerned with correction of deformities or functional impairments of the skeletal system, especially the extremities and the spine, and associated structures, as muscles and ligaments.
  • osteopathic — Of or pertaining to osteopathy or osteopathic medicine.
  • osteophytic — a small osseous excrescence or outgrowth on bone.
  • out-process — to end a military tour of duty, accompanied by necessary paperwork: All enlisted soldiers out-process as a class.
  • outer space — space beyond the atmosphere of the earth.
  • packet soup — soup supplied in dried form in a packet
  • panchreston — a proposed explanation intended to address a complex problem by trying to account for all possible contingencies but typically proving to be too broadly conceived and therefore oversimplified to be of any practical use.
  • parcel post — (in the U.S. Postal Service) nonpreferential mail consisting of packages and parcels, weighing one pound or more sent at fourth-class rates. Compare fourth class.
  • pas de cote — a two-track.
  • peach stone — the stone in the centre of the fruit the peach
  • pedodontics — the branch of dentistry dealing with the care and treatment of children's teeth.
  • penny stock — common stock, usually highly speculative, selling for less than a dollar a share.
  • pentecostal — of or relating to Pentecost, a Christian festival commemorating the descent of the Holy Ghost upon the apostles.
  • perceptions — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
  • persecution — the act of persecuting.
  • persecutors — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
  • persecutory — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
  • phagocytose — phagocytize.
  • philoctetes — Classical Mythology. a noted archer and squire of Hercules. Bitten by a snake and abandoned on an island because of his festering wound, he was at length brought by the Greeks to Troy, where he recovered and later killed Paris.
  • phonematics — phonemics.
  • phonetastic — (communications)   A CTI product from Callware. Phonetastic employs if-then rules and customer records to tell those receiving calls who is calling (based on ANI and DNIS) and to determine how the call should be routed, e.g. to a certain sales representative or to the general sales department; receive high-priority treatment; receive a fax-back, etc.
  • phoneticism — a phonetic scheme of writing
  • pinocytoses — (of a cell) to take within by means of pinocytosis.
  • pitchperson — a pitchman or pitchwoman
  • pleistocene — noting or pertaining to the epoch forming the earlier half of the Quaternary Period, beginning about two million years ago and ending 10,000 years ago, characterized by widespread glacial ice and the advent of modern humans.
  • plyometrics — a system of exercise in which the muscles are repeatedly stretched and suddenly contracted
  • pocket-size — small enough to fit conveniently into one's pocket.
  • port neches — a town in SE Texas.
  • post chaise — a four-wheeled coach for rapid transportation of passengers and mail, used in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • post office — an office or station of a government postal system at which mail is received and sorted, from which it is dispatched and distributed, and at which stamps are sold or other services rendered.
  • postal code — British. postcode.
  • postcollege — an institution of higher learning, especially one providing a general or liberal arts education rather than technical or professional training. Compare university.
  • postconcert — occurring after a concert
  • postdivorce — of, or relating to the period after a person is divorced
  • posticteric — pertaining to or affected with icterus; jaundiced.
  • postponence — the act of postponing
  • postscenium — a wing on either side of the stage of an ancient Greek or Roman theatre where props could be stored and actors could prepare; a parascenium
  • pot scourer — a small ball of wire or stiff plastic, or a flat piece of a rough fabric used for cleaning kitchen pots and pans
  • pot sticker — a pan-fried and steamed Chinese dumpling with a ground meat or vegetable filling.
  • precautious — using or displaying precaution: a precautious reply; a precautious person.
  • precipitous — of the nature of or characterized by precipices: a precipitous wall of rock.
  • preconquest — of or relating to the time before the conquest of one people, region, or country by another.
  • prehistoric — of or relating to the time or a period prior to recorded history: The dinosaur is a prehistoric beast.
  • preselector — a preamplifier between the antenna and receiving circuit, used to improve reception.
  • procrustean — pertaining to or suggestive of Procrustes.
  • proctoscope — an instrument for visual examination of the interior of the rectum.
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