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11-letter words containing a, p, e, l

  • poetry slam — a violent and noisy closing, dashing, or impact.
  • polar angle — Usually, polar coordinates. one of two coordinates used to locate a point in a plane by the length of its radius vector and the angle this vector makes with the polar axis (polar angle)
  • polarimeter — an instrument for measuring the amount of light received from a given source as a function of its state of polarization.
  • polariscope — an instrument for measuring or exhibiting the polarization of light or for examining substances in polarized light, often to determine stress and strain in glass and other substances.
  • polarizable — to cause polarization in.
  • pole hammer — a shafted weapon having a spiked hammer head.
  • poles apart — each of the extremities of the axis of the earth or of any spherical body.
  • policewoman — a female member of a police force or body.
  • policymaker — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • politbureau — (often lowercase) the executive committee and chief policymaking body of a Communist Party.
  • polkadotted — a dot or round spot (printed, woven, or embroidered) repeated to form a pattern on a textile fabric.
  • polygrapher — a person who employs a code cipher
  • polynuclear — having many nuclei.
  • polysorbate — any of a class of emulsifying and dispersing agents used in various foods and pharmaceutical preparations.
  • polyspermia — the secretion of an excessive amount of semen.
  • polyvalence — Chemistry. having more than one valence.
  • pony league — a baseball league similar to a Little League and having teams whose players are from 13 to 14 years of age.
  • pool player — a person who plays pool
  • pork barrel — a government appropriation, bill, or policy that supplies funds for local improvements designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents.
  • portal vein — the large vein conveying blood to the liver from the veins of the stomach, intestine, spleen, and pancreas.
  • possessable — capable of being possessed
  • postal code — British. postcode.
  • postal vote — a voting slip that can be filled in at home and sent by post
  • 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.
  • potwalloper — (in some boroughs before the Reform Bill of 1832) a man who qualified as a householder, and therefore a voter, by virtue of ownership of his own fireplace at which to boil pots.
  • powder flag — red flag (def 4).
  • power alley — either of the two areas in the outfield between the outfielders
  • power cable — cable for conducting electric power.
  • power plant — a plant, including engines, dynamos, etc., and the building or buildings necessary for the generation of power, as electric or nuclear power.
  • poyang lake — a lake in E China, in N Jiangxi province, connected by canal with the Yangtze River: the second largest lake in China. Area (at its greatest): 2780 sq km (1073 sq miles)
  • practicable — capable of being done, effected, or put into practice, with the available means; feasible: a practicable solution.
  • 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
  • prairie owl — burrowing owl.
  • pramipexole — a dopamine agonist used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease.
  • prattlement — chatter, prattling
  • prayer flag — a flag stamped with printed prayers, used by Himalayan Buddhists, who believe that its fluttering sends out the prayers inscribed on it.
  • prayerfully — given to, characterized by, or expressive of prayer; devout.
  • pre-algebra — the branch of mathematics that deals with general statements of relations, utilizing letters and other symbols to represent specific sets of numbers, values, vectors, etc., in the description of such relations.
  • pre-diploma — a document given by an educational institution conferring a degree on a person or certifying that the person has satisfactorily completed a course of study.
  • pre-ethical — not governed by ethics, or not having an ethical or moral aspect
  • pre-exilian — being or occurring prior to the exile of the Jews in Babylonia 597–538 b.c.
  • pre-holiday — a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person.
  • pre-islamic — existing prior to the ascendancy of Islam; pre-Muslim.
  • pre-release — something released beforehand, as a movie shown before its scheduled premiere.
  • pre-seminal — released before semen is ejaculated
  • preachingly — in a preaching manner, with preaching
  • preambulary — of, pertaining to or of the nature of a preamble; preliminary, introductory
  • preambulate — to make a preamble, to give an introduction
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