11-letter words containing pt
- receptively — having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
- receptivity — having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
- reptilianly — in the manner of a reptilian
- reptiliform — having the form or appearance of a reptile
- rescription — a reply or answering of a letter
- rockhampton — a city in E Queensland, in E Australia.
- rumgumption — good sense
- rupturewort — a plant, Herniaria glabra, of the pink family
- sceptreless — lacking a sceptre, powerless, lacking authority
- script girl — a female secretarial assistant to the director of a motion picture.
- scriptorial — of or relating to a scriptorium
- scriptorium — a room, as in a monastery, library, or other institution, where manuscripts are stored, read, or copied.
- scripturism — the state of being versed in Scripture
- scripturist — a person who obeys and is versed in the Scriptures
- scrumptious — very pleasing, especially to the senses; delectable; splendid: a scrumptious casserole; a scrumptious satin gown.
- sculpturing — the act of sculpturing or carving
- sea captain — the master of a seagoing vessel.
- septavalent — having a valence of seven; heptavalent.
- septembrist — a person who instigated or took part in the September Massacre.
- septemviral — of or relating to septemvirs or a septemvirate.
- septenarius — a verse consisting of seven feet, usually printed in two lines: used especially in Latin poems.
- septentrion — Obsolete. the north.
- septic tank — a tank in which solid organic sewage is decomposed and purified by anaerobic bacteria.
- septicaemia — the invasion and persistence of pathogenic bacteria in the blood-stream.
- septiferous — in possession of a septum or partition
- septifragal — (of a capsule) dehiscing by breaking away from the partitions but remaining attached to the common axis; dehiscing at the valves or backs of the carpels but leaving the septa intact.
- septivalent — having a valence of seven; heptavalent.
- skeptically — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
- soft option — If you take the soft option, you do the thing that is easiest or least likely to cause trouble in a particular situation.
- soroptimist — a member of an international association of professional or executive businesswomen (Soroptimist Club) devoted primarily to welfare work.
- 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.
- stearoptene — the oxygenated solid part of an essential oil (opposed to eleoptene).
- stereoptics — the branch of stereoscopy that is concerned with optics
- stripteaser — stripper (def 3).
- sub-captain — a person who is at the head of or in authority over others; chief; leader.
- sub-optimal — being below an optimal level or standard.
- suboptimize — to use in a way that is less than optimal
- subsumption — an act of subsuming.
- sumptuously — entailing great expense, as from choice materials, fine work, etc.; costly: a sumptuous residence.
- superscript — Printing. superior (def 10).
- susceptance — the imaginary component of admittance, equal to the quotient of the negative of the reactance divided by the sum of the squares of the reactance and resistance. Symbol: B.
- susceptible — admitting or capable of some specified treatment: susceptible of a high polish; susceptible to various interpretations.
- symptomatic — pertaining to a symptom or symptoms.
- symptomless — having or showing no symptoms.
- synaptosome — a saclike structure at an isolated nerve ending
- synoptistic — relating to the work of a synoptist
- temptatious — enticing or illicitly desirable
- tetrapteran — of or related to things, particularly insects, with four wings
- the baptist — John the Baptist
- the rapture — in some Christian theologies, the bodily ascent into heaven just before Armageddon of those who are saved (see save1 (sense 8)