11-letter words containing a, c, r, o, y
- play doctor — a person, usually a professional playwright, employed to improve a script, especially shortly before the play's opening.
- policymaker — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- polycarpous — producing fruit many times, as a perennial plant.
- polycrystal — an object composed of randomly oriented crystals, formed by rapid solidification
- polygraphic — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
- polynuclear — having many nuclei.
- potty-chair — a small chair with an open seat over a removable pot, for use by a child during toilet training.
- predicatory — of or relating to preaching.
- 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.
- procuratory — Roman History. any of various imperial officials with fiscal or administrative powers.
- procyclical — cyclic.
- 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.
- prosaically — 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.
- protocolary — the customs and regulations dealing with diplomatic formality, precedence, and etiquette.
- provocatory — tending to provoke
- psychodrama — a method of group psychotherapy in which participants take roles in improvisational dramatizations of emotionally charged situations.
- psychograph — Psychology. a graph indicating the relative strength of the personality traits of an individual.
- pterodactyl — any of a number of genera of flying reptiles of the extinct order Pterosauria, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a highly reduced tail and teeth and a birdlike beak.
- ptochocracy — government by the poor
- pyroclastic — composed chiefly of fragments of volcanic origin, as agglomerate, tuff, and certain other rocks; volcaniclastic.
- pyrovanadic — of or relating to an acid of vanadium
- quangocracy — Rule by quangos or similar unelected bodies. (from 20th c.).
- radiopacity — opaque to radiation; visible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy (opposed to radiotransparent).
- reactionary — of, pertaining to, marked by, or favoring reaction, especially extreme conservatism or rightism in politics; opposing political or social change.
- rhabdomancy — divination by means of a rod or wand, especially in discovering ores, springs of water, etc.
- road hockey — an imitation of the game of ice hockey played typically by children without ice skates on a public road.
- robotically — in a robotic manner
- rock beauty — a gold and black butterflyfish, Holocanthus tricolor, ranging from the West Indies to Brazil.
- rock steady — the style of vocalized Jamaican popular music that succeeded ska and preceded reggae in the 1960s, influenced by American soul music and having a more upbeat tempo with emphasis on electric bass and guitar rather than on horns.
- rotary club — a local club of business and professional men that is a member of a world-wide organization of similar clubs (Rotary International) devoted to serving the community and promoting world peace.
- royal icing — a hard white icing made from egg whites and icing sugar, used for coating and decorating cakes, esp fruit cakes
- saprophytic — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- sarcocystis — a member of the species of parasite Sarcocystis
- scare story — A scare story is something that is said or written to make people feel frightened and think that a situation is much more unpleasant or dangerous than it really is.
- scenography — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
- school year — the months of the year during which school is open and attendance at school is required.
- sclerocauly — the feature of having a hard, dry stem
- secondarily — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
- sociography — the branch of sociology that uses statistical data to describe social phenomena.
- solar cycle — the variation of sunspots, prominences, flares, and other solar activity through an 11-year cycle.
- sothic year — the fixed year of the ancient Egyptians, determined by the heliacal rising of Sirius, and equivalent to 365 days.
- speculatory — a place suitable for observation
- sporadicity — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- stony coral — a true coral consisting of numerous anthozoan polyps embedded in the calcareous material that they secrete.
- stratocracy — government by the military.
- subcategory — a subordinate category or a division of a category.
- subcontrary — one of two propositions that can both be true but cannot both be false.