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11-letter words containing s, p, r

  • ascriptions — Plural form of ascription.
  • asperations — Plural form of asperation.
  • aspergation — the action of sprinkling, suffusing or irrigating with water
  • aspergillum — a brush or perforated container for sprinkling holy water
  • aspergillus — any ascomycetous fungus of the genus Aspergillus, having chains of conidia attached like bristles to a club-shaped stalk: family Aspergillaceae
  • aspersorium — a basin containing holy water with which worshippers sprinkle themselves
  • aspheterise — to deny the right of private property
  • aspheterism — the teaching that all property should be in common ownership and no individual should benefit from personal possession
  • aspheterize — to observe or engage in aspheterism
  • asphyxiator — to produce asphyxia in.
  • aspidistras — Plural form of aspidistra.
  • aspirations — a strong desire, longing, or aim; ambition: intellectual aspirations.
  • asportation — the removal or taking away of something
  • asteropaeus — a Trojan ally slain by Achilles.
  • astraphobia — a fear of thunder and lightning
  • astrography — The art of describing or delineating the stars; a description or mapping of the heavens.
  • astrophobia — A fear of stars and celestial space.
  • astrophyton — The giant basket star, an early Mesozoic invertebrate.
  • astrosphere — the part of the aster excluding the centrosome
  • athwartship — having a position across a vessel from side to side at right angles to the keel
  • atmosphered — having an intellectual or psychological climate or feeling
  • atmospheres — Plural form of atmosphere.
  • atmospheric — Atmospheric is used to describe something which relates to the Earth's atmosphere.
  • auditorship — the position or function of auditor
  • avoirdupois — a system of weights used in many English-speaking countries. It is based on the pound, which contains 16 ounces or 7000 grains. 100 pounds (US) or 112 pounds (Brit) is equal to 1 hundredweight and 20 hundredweights equals 1 ton
  • azoospermia — absence of spermatozoa in the semen
  • backpackers — Plural form of backpacker.
  • backslapper — a person who backslaps; a hearty jovial person
  • backstopper — a wall, wire screen, or the like, serving to prevent a ball from going too far beyond the normal playing area.
  • baldcypress — any of a genus (Taxodium, esp. T. distichum) of cone-bearing trees of the baldcypress family, that grows in the swamps of the SE U.S. and normally sheds its small, pointed needles in the fall
  • ballplayers — Plural form of ballplayer.
  • balsam pear — an Old World tropical vine, Momordica charantia, of the gourd family, having yellow flowers and orange-yellow fruit.
  • baptistries — Plural form of baptistry.
  • barber shop — A barber shop is a shop where a barber works.
  • barber-shop — Also called, especially British, barber's shop. the place of business of a barber.
  • barbershops — Plural form of barbershop.
  • barge spike — a square spike with a chisel point.
  • baroceptors — Plural form of baroceptor.
  • base period — a neutral period used as a standard for comparison in constructing an index to express a variable factor: 100 is usually taken as the index number for the variable in the base period
  • basepersons — Plural form of baseperson.
  • basidiocarp — the fruiting body of basidiomycetous fungi; the mushroom of agarics
  • bass player — a player of a double bass or a bass guitar
  • bastard pop — a type of popular music in which two records, usually from different genres or eras, are blended together into a whole, often using the vocal performance from one and the instrumental from the other
  • bath pearls — dissolvable granules added to bath water to impart scent or other qualities
  • bathysphere — a strong steel deep-sea diving sphere, lowered by cable
  • beach scarp — a steep slope or miniature cliff, formed by wave action, fronting the berm on a beach.
  • bean sprout — Bean sprouts are small, long, thin shoots grown from beans. They are frequently used in Chinese cookery.
  • bench press — a weight-training exercise in which a person lies on a bench and pushes a barbell upwards with both hands from chest level until the arms are straight, then lowers it again
  • bench-press — a weightlifting exercise in which one lies supine on a bench and with both hands pushes a barbell or fixed weight upward from chest level to arm's length and then lowers it back to chest level: usually repeated in sets.
  • benchership — the position of a bencher at the Inns of Court
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