11-letter words containing a, c, r, o, p
- potato race — a novelty race in which each contestant must move a number of potatoes from one place to another, usually in a spoon, carrying one potato at a time.
- potty-chair — a small chair with an open seat over a removable pot, for use by a child during toilet training.
- pouched rat — pocket gopher.
- power cable — cable for conducting electric power.
- power chain — an endless chain for transmitting motion and power between sprockets on shafts with parallel axes.
- praecordial — of or pertaining to a part of the body near or in front of the heart; located near to or in front of the heart
- preannounce — to make known publicly or officially; proclaim; give notice of: to announce a special sale.
- precautious — using or displaying precaution: a precautious reply; a precautious person.
- precisional — the state or quality of being precise.
- precolonial — of or relating to the time before a region or country became a colony.
- precontract — a preexisting contract that legally prevents a person from making another contract of the same nature.
- predication — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
- predicatory — of or relating to preaching.
- predoctoral — of or relating to study undertaken in preparation for a doctoral degree.
- preoccupant — a previous occupant
- preoccupate — to influence or occupy the mind in advance
- preromantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
- prevacation — a period of suspension of work, study, or other activity, usually used for rest, recreation, or travel; recess or holiday: Schoolchildren are on vacation now.
- prison camp — a camp for the confinement of prisoners of war or political prisoners.
- pro-african — Also, Africa. of or from Africa; belonging to the black peoples of Africa.
- pro-fascist — a person who believes in or sympathizes with fascism.
- pro-vaccine — any preparation used as a preventive inoculation to confer immunity against a specific disease, usually employing an innocuous form of the disease agent, as killed or weakened bacteria or viruses, to stimulate antibody production.
- proactively — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- proactivity — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- problematic — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
- procephalic — of or relating to the head.
- procerebral — relating to the procerebrum
- processable — capable of being processed.
- proclaimant — someone who proclaims
- proconsular — Roman History. an official, usually a former consul, who acted as governor or military commander of a province, and who had powers similar to those of a consul.
- procreation — to beget or generate (offspring).
- procreative — to beget or generate (offspring).
- procrustean — pertaining to or suggestive of Procrustes.
- proctodaeum — proctodeum.
- procuration — the act of obtaining or getting; procurement.
- procuratory — Roman History. any of various imperial officials with fiscal or administrative powers.
- procyclical — cyclic.
- produceable — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- project mac — (project) A project suggested by J C R Licklider; its founding director was MIT Prof. Robert M Fano. MAC stood for Multiple Access Computers on the 5th floor of Tech Square, and Man and Computer on the 9th floor. The major efforts were Corbato's Multics development and Marvin Minsky's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In 1963 Project MAC hosted a summer study, which brought many well-known computer scientists to Cambridge to use CTSS and to discuss the future of computing. Funding for Project MAC was provided by the Information Processing Techniques Office of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the US Department of Defense. See also Early PL/I, MacLisp, MACSYMA, MDL, Multipop-68, OCAL.
- projectable — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
- prokaryotic — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
- prolificacy — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
- prophetical — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
- prosaically — commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
- prosaicness — commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
- prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
- prosobranch — a gastropod mollusc of the subclass Prosobranchia, which includes conches, limpets, abalones, and numerous aquatic and terrestrial snails
- protectable — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
- prothoracic — relating to an insect's prothorax
- protococcal — of or relating to unicellular algae of the former genus Protococcus, one of which (renamed Pleurococcus vulgaris) is a green alga commonly found on trees, walls, etc