11-letter words that end in an
- pontoppidan — Henrik [hen-reek] /ˈhɛn rik/ (Show IPA), 1857–1943, Danish novelist: Nobel prize 1917.
- pornotopian — of or relating to a pornotopia
- porto rican — former official name (until 1932) of Puerto Rico.
- postexilian — being or occurring subsequent to the exile of the Jews in Babylonia 597–538 b.c.
- potato bean — groundnut (def 1).
- poultry-man — a person who raises domestic fowls, especially chickens, to sell as meat; a chicken farmer.
- pre-exilian — being or occurring prior to the exile of the Jews in Babylonia 597–538 b.c.
- precambrian — noting or pertaining to the earliest era of earth history, ending 570 million years ago, during which the earth's crust formed and life first appeared in the seas.
- prefreshman — before being a freshman
- preterhuman — beyond what is human: preterhuman experience.
- pro-african — Also, Africa. of or from Africa; belonging to the black peoples of Africa.
- procrustean — pertaining to or suggestive of Procrustes.
- proletarian — pertaining or belonging to the proletariat.
- purgatorian — a person who believes in purgatory
- pythagorean — of or relating to Pythagoras, to his school, or to his doctrines.
- qilian shan — a mountain range in W China, bordered between Qinghai and Gansu provinces.
- quechumaran — a proposed language stock comprising Quechua and Aymara
- rabelaisian — of, relating to, or suggesting François Rabelais, whose work is characterized by broad, coarse humor and keen satire.
- radiolarian — any minute, marine protozoan of the class Radiolaria, or, in some classification schemes, the superclass Actinopoda, having an amebalike body with radiating, filamentous pseudopodia and a usually elaborate outer skeleton.
- rastafarian — a follower of Rastafarianism.
- rather than — in preference to
- reid, brian — Brian Reid
- removal man — Removal men are men whose job is to move furniture or equipment from one building to another.
- removal van — a large vehicle used to transport furniture or equipment from one building to another
- repairwoman — a woman whose occupation is the making of repairs, readjustments, etc.
- revenue man — a government agent employed to act against the illegal production of alcohol, esp during the time of Prohibition in the United States
- rhetorician — an expert in the art of rhetoric.
- rosicrucian — (in the 17th and 18th centuries) a person who belonged to a secret society laying claim to various forms of occult knowledge and power and professing esoteric principles of religion.
- runner bean — string bean (defs 1, 2).
- sabbatarian — a person who observes the seventh day of the week, Saturday, as the Sabbath.
- sagittarian — a person born under Sagittarius, the ninth sign of the zodiac; a Sagittarius.
- salvadorian — El Salvador.
- sarcodinian — belonging or pertaining to the protist phylum Sarcodina, comprising protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopodia.
- saturnalian — (sometimes used with a plural verb) the festival of Saturn, celebrated in December in ancient Rome as a time of unrestrained merrymaking.
- saurischian — any herbivorous or carnivorous dinosaur of the order Saurischia, having a three-pronged pelvis resembling that of a crocodile. Compare ornithischian.
- sauropsidan — relating to the Sauropsida or animals belonging to the Sauriodea group in Huxley's classification
- scotchwoman — Scotswoman.
- semiotician — the study of signs and symbols as elements of communicative behavior; the analysis of systems of communication, as language, gestures, or clothing.
- sense organ — a specialized bodily structure that receives or is sensitive to internal or external stimuli; receptor.
- sertularian — a type of hydroid that forms stiff, feathery colonies in which the cups holding the zooids are sessile.
- shanhaiguan — a city in NE Hebei province, in NE China, on the Gulf of Liaodong: strategically located at the E end of the Great Wall.
- sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
- sigillarian — resembling the fossilized, tree-like plants of the genus Sigillaria
- silvestrian — of or relating to woodland
- singaporean — an island on the Strait of Singapore, off the S tip of the Malay Peninsula.
- smoking ban — the prohibition of smoking cigarettes, etc in public places
- south sudan — a landlocked republic in NE Africa, in the Sahel region; formerly part of Sudan: became independent after a referendum in 2011, following a long civil war. Languages: English, Arabic. Religions: Christian, animist. Currency: South Sudanese Pound. Capital: Juba. Pop: 11 090 104 (2013 est). Area: 644 329 sq km (248 777 sq miles)
- spinsterian — relating to a spinster
- spokeswoman — a woman who speaks for another person or for a group.
- sportswoman — a woman who engages in sports.