11-letter words containing a, n, t, e, l
- platyrrhine — Anthropology. having a broad, flat-bridged nose.
- play-centre — a regular meeting of small children arranged by their parents or a welfare agency to give them an opportunity of supervised creative play
- plecopteran — Also, plecopterous. belonging or pertaining to the insect order Plecoptera, comprising the stoneflies.
- plectognath — belonging to the Plectognathi, a group or order of fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick, often spiny, scaleless skin, and including the filefish, globefish, puffer, and triggerfish.
- plunge bath — a bath large enough to immerse the whole body or to dive into
- portal vein — the large vein conveying blood to the liver from the veins of the stomach, intestine, spleen, and pancreas.
- postexilian — being or occurring subsequent to the exile of the Jews in Babylonia 597–538 b.c.
- potableness — the quality of being potable or drinkable
- potentially — possibly but not yet actually: potentially useful information.
- power plant — a plant, including engines, dynamos, etc., and the building or buildings necessary for the generation of power, as electric or nuclear power.
- prattlement — chatter, prattling
- prelibation — a foretaste.
- preparental — prior to becoming a parent: preparental instruction.
- prepunctual — arriving before the appointed time
- presentable — that may be presented.
- preterminal — situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
- prevailment — the action of prevailing
- prevalently — widespread; of wide extent or occurrence; in general use or acceptance.
- preventable — to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
- proletarian — pertaining or belonging to the proletariat.
- prolongated — to prolong.
- prone float — a prone floating position, used especially by beginning swimmers, with face downward, legs extended backward, and arms stretched forward.
- protoplanet — the collection of matter, in the process of condensation, from which a planet is formed.
- pulveration — the reduction of something to powder
- punctulated — bearing small spots or dots
- quaintrelle — (obscure) A woman who emphasizes a life of passion expressed through personal style, leisurely pastimes, charm, and cultivation of life’s pleasures.
- radiolucent — almost entirely transparent to radiation; almost entirely invisible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy.
- rallentando — slackening; becoming slower (used as a musical direction).
- range light — one of a pattern of navigation lights, usually fixed ashore, used by vessels for manoeuvring in narrow channels at night
- range table — one of a number of identical small tables that can be used together to form a single table.
- rationalise — to ascribe (one's acts, opinions, etc.) to causes that superficially seem reasonable and valid but that actually are unrelated to the true, possibly unconscious and often less creditable or agreeable causes.
- rationalize — to ascribe (one's acts, opinions, etc.) to causes that superficially seem reasonable and valid but that actually are unrelated to the true, possibly unconscious and often less creditable or agreeable causes.
- rattlebrain — a giddy, empty-headed, talkative person.
- rattlesnake — any of several New World pit vipers of the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus, having a rattle composed of a series of horny, interlocking elements at the end of the tail.
- real tennis — an ancient form of tennis played in a four-walled indoor court with various openings, a sloping-roofed corridor along three sides, and a buttress on the fourth side
- realignment — an adjustment to a line; arrangement in a straight line.
- realization — the making or being made real of something imagined, planned, etc.
- reallotment — the act or process of reallotting something
- recalescent — a brightening exhibited by cooling iron as latent heat of transformation is liberated.
- reclamation — the reclaiming of desert, marshy, or submerged areas or other wasteland for cultivation or other use.
- reclination — to lean or lie back; rest in a recumbent position.
- rectangular — shaped like a rectangle.
- rectilinear — forming a straight line.
- redactional — to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
- reductional — of, characterized by, or relating to reduction
- redundantly — characterized by verbosity or unnecessary repetition in expressing ideas; prolix: a redundant style.
- referential — having reference: referential to something.
- reflectance — the ratio of the intensity of reflected radiation to that of the radiation incident on a surface.
- regimentals — of or relating to a regiment.
- reinflation — Economics. a persistent, substantial rise in the general level of prices related to an increase in the volume of money and resulting in the loss of value of currency (opposed to deflation).