11-letter words containing a, d, r, t
- perduration — the act of lasting forever or enduring continually; the capacity to endure indefinitely
- 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.
- petrodollar — profits made from oil exports
- 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
- plantigrade — walking on the whole sole of the foot, as humans, and bears.
- plateholder — a lightproof container for a photographic plate, loaded into the camera with the plate and having a slide that is removed before exposing.
- play doctor — a person, usually a professional playwright, employed to improve a script, especially shortly before the play's opening.
- point guard — Basketball. the guard who directs the team's offense from the point.
- polyandrist — a woman who practices or favors polyandry.
- pond-skater — any of various heteropterous insects of the family Gerrididae, esp Gerris lacustris (common pond-skater), having a slender hairy body and long hairy legs with which they skim about on the surface of ponds
- ponderation — a weight
- postal card — a card sold by the post office with a stamp already printed on it.
- pouched rat — pocket gopher.
- pre-adamite — a person supposed to have existed before Adam.
- preadaptive — tending to preadapt, causing preadaptation
- prediabetes — a condition in which carbohydrate metabolism is mildly abnormal but other criteria indicating diabetes mellitus are absent.
- prediabetic — a person suffering from prediabetes
- predicament — an unpleasantly difficult, perplexing, or dangerous situation.
- predication — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
- predicative — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
- predicatory — of or relating to preaching.
- predictable — able to be foretold or declared in advance: New technology allows predictable weather forecasting.
- predictably — able to be foretold or declared in advance: New technology allows predictable weather forecasting.
- predictated — to say or read (something) aloud for another person to transcribe or for a machine to record: to dictate some letters to a secretary.
- predispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- predoctoral — of or relating to study undertaken in preparation for a doctoral degree.
- predominant — having ascendancy, power, authority, or influence over others; preeminent.
- predominate — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
- predynastic — of, relating to, or belonging to a time or period before the first dynasty of a nation, especially the period in Egypt before c3200 b.c.
- preindicate — to indicate in advance; presage: The early thaw preindicated an avalanche.
- prejudicant — judging beforehand
- prejudicate — to judge beforehand
- premedicate — to administer preparatory medication to
- premeditate — to meditate, consider, or plan beforehand: to premeditate a murder.
- prendergast — Maurice Brazil [braz-uh l] /ˈbræz əl/ (Show IPA), 1859–1924, U.S. painter.
- present-day — current; modern: present-day techniques; present-day English.
- prestandard — something considered by an authority or by general consent as a basis of comparison; an approved model.
- print media — the industry that is engaged in the printing and dissemination of news through newspapers and magazines
- proctodaeum — proctodeum.
- prodigality — the quality or fact of being prodigal; wasteful extravagance in spending.
- prolongated — to prolong.
- promulgated — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- protandrous — (of hermaphrodite or monoecious plants) maturing the anthers before the stigma
- prothalloid — resembling a prothallus
- protodeacon — a chief deacon in the Greek Church.
- 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.
- purehearted — (of a person) without malice, treachery, or evil intent; honest; sincere; guileless.