11-letter words containing t, o, s, p
- inspections — Plural form of inspection.
- inspiration — an inspiring or animating action or influence: I cannot write poetry without inspiration.
- inspirators — Plural form of inspirator.
- inspiratory — of or relating to inspiration or inhalation.
- inspissator — A heating device for thickening or congealing a liquid.
- interlopers — Plural form of interloper.
- interposing — Present participle of interpose.
- invert soap — cationic detergent.
- isapostolic — contemporaneous with, or equal to, the twelve apostles
- isometropia — equality of refraction in the two eyes of an individual.
- isophthalic — Of or pertaining to isophthalic acid and its derivatives.
- isospectral — (mathematics) Having the same spectrum.
- iteroparous — (of a plant) producing flowers and fruit more than once (usually many times) before dying
- janitorship — the office of janitor
- jehoshaphat — a king of Judah, son of Asa, who reigned in the 9th century b.c. I Kings 22:41–50.
- joggle post — a wooden king post having notches or raised areas for receiving and supporting the feet of struts.
- josephinite — a mineral alloy of nickel and iron
- jumpstation — A site on the World Wide Web containing a collection of hypertext links, usually to pages on a particular topic.
- justaucorps — a fitted, knee-length coat, characterized by wide turned-back cuffs and stiff flared skirts, worn especially by men in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- juxtaposing — to place close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.
- keep stroke — to make strokes in rhythm
- keratoscope — an instrument, as Placido's disk, for determining the symmetry of the curvature of the cornea.
- keratoscopy — an instrument, as Placido's disk, for determining the symmetry of the curvature of the cornea.
- ketopentose — (carbohydrate) A pentose that is also a ketose.
- kinetoplast — A mass of mitochondrial DNA lying close to the nucleus in some flagellate protozoa.
- kinetoscope — an early motion-picture device, invented by Edison, in which the film passed behind a peephole for viewing by a single viewer.
- kleptocrats — Plural form of kleptocrat.
- knifepoints — Plural form of knifepoint.
- last gospel — in the order of service for the Mass, the final reading of a Gospel lesson.
- lepromatous — the swollen lesion of leprosy.
- leptospiral — relating to, caused by, or characteristic of leptospires
- leucoplasts — Plural form of leucoplast.
- lipomatosis — a genetic disorder which manifests itself in the abnormal growth of fat
- liposuction — the surgical withdrawal of excess fat from local areas under the skin by means of a small incision and vacuum suctioning.
- lipotropins — Plural form of lipotropin.
- lister-plow — Also called lister plow, middlebreaker, middlebuster. a plow with a double moldboard, used to prepare the ground for planting by producing furrows and ridges.
- lithographs — Plural form of lithograph.
- lithophytes — Plural form of lithophyte.
- lithosphere — the solid portion of the earth (distinguished from atmosphere, hydrosphere).
- lithotripsy — the pulverization and removal of urinary calculi using a lithotripter.
- liver spots — a form of chloasma in which irregularly shaped light-brown spots occur on the skin.
- lobster pot — a trap for catching lobsters, typically a box made of wooden slats with a funnellike entrance to the bait.
- local stamp — stamp (def 22).
- loop stitch — any stitch, as the chain stitch, that uses loops in the pattern or process of working.
- lost pleiad — See under Pleiades (def 1).
- lotusscript — (language) A Visual BASIC-like scripting language for Lotus Notes and Lotus SmartSuite. LotusScript is object-oriented and can be used for complex Notes programming, although Java is also available.
- lymphoblast — a large, metabolically active lymphocyte shortly before it enters into mitosis.
- lymphocytes — Plural form of lymphocyte.
- lyosorption — the adsorption of a liquid on a solid surface, esp of a solvent on suspended particles
- macrophytes — Plural form of macrophyte.