11-letter words containing ase
- pencil case — container for writing implements
- phase angle — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- phase space — a hypothetical space constructed so as to have as many coordinates as are necessary to define the state of a given substance or system.
- phase speed — the speed at which the phase of a wave is propagated, the product of the frequency times the wavelength. This is the quantity that is determined by methods using interference. In a dispersive medium it differs from the group speed
- phosphatase — any of several classes of esterases of varying specificity that catalyze the hydrolysis of phosphoric esters.
- phrase book — a small book containing everyday phrases and sentences and their equivalents in a foreign language, written especially for travelers.
- phrasemaker — a person who is skilled in coining well-turned phrases; phraseologist.
- phraseogram — a written symbol or combination of symbols, as in shorthand, used to represent a phrase.
- phraseology — manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language: legal phraseology.
- plagioclase — any of the feldspar minerals varying in composition from acidic albite, NaAlSi 3 O 8 , to basic anorthite, CaAl 2 Si 2 O 8 , found in most igneous rocks: shows twinning striations on good cleavage surfaces.
- pre-release — something released beforehand, as a movie shown before its scheduled premiere.
- predeceased — to die before (another person, the occurrence of an event, etc.).
- prepurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- prick-tease — a woman who is sexually provocative but refuses to engage in sexual activity
- releasement — the act of releasing from confinement or responsibility
- repurchaser — to buy again; regain by purchase.
- sample case — a handheld container of samples of products used by a salesperson to show potential customers what is available
- schiff base — the product of the chemical association of an aldehyde with a primary amine
- schmierkase — cottage cheese.
- second base — the second in order of the bases from home plate.
- smokechaser — a person who fights forest fires, especially one with lightweight equipment.
- sod disease — a disease of poultry characterized by blisters and scabs on the feet and legs
- split-phase — pertaining to or noting a current in one of two parallel circuits that have a single-phase current source but unequal impedances and that produce currents of different phase.
- stripteaser — stripper (def 3).
- subbasement — a basement or one of a series of basements below the main basement of a building.
- syntax-case — (language) A macro system for Scheme by R. Kent Dybvig <[email protected]>. It is superior to the low-level system described in the Revised^4 Report (R4RS). Pattern variables are ordinary identifiers with essentially the same status as lexical variable names and macro keywords. The syntax is modified to recognise and handle references to pattern variables. Version 2.1 works with Chez Scheme and the Macintosh port runs under MacGambit 2.0
- teaser rate — A teaser rate is a low introductory interest rate on credit that goes up after a short time.
- three-phase — of or relating to a circuit, system, or device that is energized by three electromotive forces that differ in phase by one third of a cycle or 120°.
- timepleaser — a timeserver.
- transferase — any of the class of enzymes, as the transaminases that catalyze the transfer of an organic group from one compound to another.
- ultrasecret — completely secret
- unpurchased — not bought or purchased
- vanity case — a small luggage bag or case for holding cosmetics or toiletries.
- vapor phase — In its vapor phase a substance can be condensed to a liquid or to a solid by increasing its pressure without reducing the temperature.
- vasectomize — to perform a vasectomy on
- verb phrase — a group of words including a verb and its complements, objects, or other modifiers that functions syntactically as a verb. In English a verb phrase combines with a noun or noun phrase acting as subject to form a simple sentence.
- violin case — protective carrycase for a violin
- weasel word — a word used to temper the forthrightness of a statement; a word that makes one's views equivocal, misleading, or confusing.
- wild weasel — a nickname given various U.S. military aircraft fitted with radar-detection and jamming equipment and designed to suppress enemy air defenses with missiles that home on radar emissions.