11-letter words containing a, p, r, o, s
- drosophilas — Plural form of drosophila.
- dry compass — a compass having a compass card mounted on pivots.
- dry shampoo — a product in powder or spray form that you can use to clean hair without wetting it
- duplicators — Plural form of duplicator.
- earthperson — a human inhabitant or native of the planet Earth.
- east peoria — a city in central Illinois, near Peoria.
- epiplastron — a lateral plate in the plastron of a turtle
- erythropsia — a defect of vision in which objects appear red
- escape road — a road, usually ending in a pile of sand, provided on a hill for a driver to drive into if his brakes fail or on a bend if he loses control of the turn
- europeanism — belief in or advocacy of political unification and economic integration among European nations
- euryphagous — eating a wide variety of foods
- evaporators — Plural form of evaporator.
- exasperator — one who exasperates
- expirations — Plural form of expiration.
- expiscatory — acting to expiscate; tending to expiscate
- fair-spoken — speaking or spoken in a courteous, civil, or plausible manner; smooth-spoken.
- fibroplasia — the formation of fibrous tissue.
- fissiparous — reproducing by fission.
- flagpersons — Plural form of flagperson.
- flameproofs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flameproof.
- flash eprom — Flash Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
- floor space — an area on the floor of a premises where objects may be placed
- foetiparous — (of a marsupial) bearing young before they are fully developed.
- footscraper — a metal bar, set in a small frame and attached to a doorstep, used in cleaning mud from the bottoms of the shoes before entering a house.
- foremanship — The position of a foreman.
- forest park — a city in NW Georgia.
- foretopmast — (nautical) The mast above the foretop.
- foretopsail — (nautical) the sail draped from the foretopmast.
- fort casper — a fort in central Wyoming, near Casper: an important post on the Oregon Trail.
- fortepianos — Plural form of fortepiano.
- fox sparrow — a North American sparrow, Passerella iliaca, having a bright rufous tail and streaked breast.
- frost grape — riverbank grape.
- gamotropism — the tendency of gametes to attract each other
- gastropathy — (pathology) Any disease of the stomach.
- gastroscope — a lighted flexible tubular instrument passed through the mouth for examining the esophagus, stomach, and duodenum.
- gastroscopy — the examination with a gastroscope to detect disease.
- gastrosophy — the science or art of good eating
- gemmiparous — producing or reproducing by buds or gemmae.
- geographers — Plural form of geographer.
- geographies — the science dealing with the areal differentiation of the earth's surface, as shown in the character, arrangement, and interrelations over the world of such elements as climate, elevation, soil, vegetation, population, land use, industries, or states, and of the unit areas formed by the complex of these individual elements.
- glamourpuss — a glamorous person, esp a woman
- goalkeepers — Plural form of goalkeeper.
- gopherspace — (networking) The sum of all files that can be reached using gopher.
- graded post — a position in a school having special responsibility for which additional payment is given
- gramophones — Plural form of gramophone.
- graptolites — Plural form of graptolite.
- grasshopper — any of numerous herbivorous, orthopterous insects, especially of the families Acrididae and Tettigoniidae, having the hind legs adapted for leaping and having chewing mouth parts, some species being highly destructive to vegetation. Compare locust (def 1), long-horned grasshopper.
- greaseproof — Resistant to grease.
- greasy pole — a pole covered with grease to make it slippery and difficult to climb, often used as entertainment
- gyrocompass — a navigational compass containing a gyroscope rotor, that, when adjusted for the latitude and speed of the vessel or aircraft, indicates the direction of true north along the surface of the earth or communicates this information to one or more gyro repeaters.