11-letter words containing a, d, p, e, r
- palm reader — fortune teller who interprets hand lines
- palmer land — the southern part of the Antarctic Peninsula.
- paper round — job delivering newspapers
- paper-bound — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
- pappardelle — flat pasta cut in wide strips.
- parade rest — a position assumed by a soldier or sailor in which the feet are 12 inches (30.48 cm) apart, the hands are clasped behind the back, and the head is held motionless and facing forward.
- paraldehyde — a colorless, liquid, cyclic compound, C 6 H 1 2 O 3 , having a disagreeable taste but an agreeable odor, produced by the polymerization of acetaldehyde with sulfuric acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of organic chemicals and in medicine as a sedative and hypnotic.
- parallelled — extending in the same direction, equidistant at all points, and never converging or diverging: parallel rows of trees.
- paramedical — related to the medical profession in a secondary or supplementary capacity.
- parascender — a person who takes part in parascending
- parasuicide — the deliberate infliction of injury on oneself or the taking of a drug overdose as an attempt at suicide which may not be intended to be successful
- parchedness — the state or characteristic of being parched
- parent body — an organization's parent body is the organization that created it and usually still controls it
- parenticide — a person who kills one or both of his or her parents.
- partialized — to bias.
- party dress — a dress to wear to a party
- pass degree — (in English universities) an ordinary bachelor's degree conferred without honors.
- pasteurised — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
- pasteurized — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
- pastureland — Also called pastureland [pas-cher-land, pahs-] /ˈpæs tʃərˌlænd, ˈpɑs-/ (Show IPA). an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
- pate tendre — soft paste.
- peak period — the busiest or most popular time
- pear-shaped — having the shape of a pear; tapering near the top and bulging toward the base or bottom: a pear-shaped vase.
- pearl danio — a slender iridescent tropical cyprinid, Brachydanio albolineatus, from parts of southeast Asia: a popular freshwater aquarium fish.
- pearl diver — a person who dives for pearl oysters or other pearl-bearing mollusks.
- pedagoguery — a teacher; schoolteacher.
- pedal power — use of a cycle
- pedantocrat — a pedantic ruler
- pentahedron — a solid figure having five faces.
- pentahydric — (especially of alcohols and phenols) pentahydroxy.
- pentandrous — of or pertaining to the order of plants Pentandria, characterized by having five stamens
- perduration — the act of lasting forever or enduring continually; the capacity to endure indefinitely
- pericardiac — of or relating to the pericardium.
- pericardial — of or relating to the pericardium.
- pericardium — the membranous sac enclosing the heart.
- perigordian — of, relating to, or characteristic of an Upper Paleolithic cultural epoch in southern France, especially of the Périgord region.
- period pain — Period pain is the pain that some women have when they have a monthly period.
- periodontal — of or relating to the periodontium.
- periodontia — the bone, connective tissue, and gum surrounding and supporting a tooth.
- perpetrated — to commit: to perpetrate a crime.
- perpetuated — to make perpetual.
- personal ad — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- persuadable — to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
- petrodollar — profits made from oil exports
- philanderer — (of a man) to make love with a woman one cannot or will not marry; carry on flirtations.
- pioneer day — a legal holiday in Utah on July 24 to commemorate Brigham Young's founding of Salt Lake City in 1847.
- pitta bread — a flat rounded slightly leavened bread, originally from the Middle East, with a hollow inside like a pocket, which can be filled with food
- placeholder — Mathematics, Logic. a symbol in an expression that may be replaced by the name of any element of the set.
- plagiarised — to take and use by plagiarism.
- plantigrade — walking on the whole sole of the foot, as humans, and bears.