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

  • pomegranate — a chambered, many-seeded, globose fruit, having a tough, usually red rind and surmounted by a crown of calyx lobes, the edible portion consisting of pleasantly acid flesh developed from the outer seed coat.
  • pompadoured — styled in a pompadour
  • 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
  • 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.
  • porkpie hat — a hat with a round flat crown and a brim that can be turned up or down
  • port orange — a city in E Florida.
  • portal vein — the large vein conveying blood to the liver from the veins of the stomach, intestine, spleen, and pancreas.
  • portmanteau — a case or bag to carry clothing in while traveling, especially a leather trunk or suitcase that opens into two halves.
  • portraiture — the art or an instance of making portraits.
  • postharvest — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
  • potato race — a novelty race in which each contestant must move a number of potatoes from one place to another, usually in a spoon, carrying one potato at a time.
  • potentiator — to cause to be potent; make powerful.
  • potter wasp — any of several mason wasps, especially of the genus Eumenes, that construct a juglike nest of mud.
  • 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.
  • pouched rat — pocket gopher.
  • powder flag — red flag (def 4).
  • power ahead — If an economy or company powers ahead, it becomes stronger and more successful.
  • power alley — either of the two areas in the outfield between the outfielders
  • power brake — an automotive brake set by pressure from some power source, as a compressed-air reservoir, in proportion to a smaller amount of pressure on the brake pedal.
  • power brand — a brand of product that is a household name associated with a successful company
  • power cable — cable for conducting electric power.
  • power chain — an endless chain for transmitting motion and power between sprockets on shafts with parallel axes.
  • power plant — a plant, including engines, dynamos, etc., and the building or buildings necessary for the generation of power, as electric or nuclear power.
  • power train — a train of gears and shafting transmitting power from an engine, motor, etc., to a mechanism being driven.
  • powerboater — a powerboat owner or operator.
  • powerdomain — (theory)   The powerdomain of a domain D is a domain containing some of the subsets of D. Due to the asymmetry condition in the definition of a partial order (and therefore of a domain) the powerdomain cannot contain all the subsets of D. This is because there may be different sets X and Y such that X <= Y and Y <= X which, by the asymmetry condition would have to be considered equal. There are at least three possible orderings of the subsets of a powerdomain: Egli-Milner: X <= Y iff for all x in X, exists y in Y: x <= y and for all y in Y, exists x in X: x <= y ("The other domain always contains a related element"). Hoare or Partial Correctness or Safety: X <= Y iff for all x in X, exists y in Y: x <= y ("The bigger domain always contains a bigger element"). Smyth or Total Correctness or Liveness: X <= Y iff for all y in Y, exists x in X: x <= y ("The smaller domain always contains a smaller element"). If a powerdomain represents the result of an abstract interpretation in which a bigger value is a safe approximation to a smaller value then the Hoare powerdomain is appropriate because the safe approximation Y to the powerdomain X contains a safe approximation to each point in X. ("<=" is written in LaTeX as \sqsubseteq).
  • 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
  • praenestine — of or relating to the ancient town of Praeneste in Italy, or to the Latin dialect spoken there.
  • praetorship — the office of a praetor.
  • pragmatizer — someone who pragmatizes
  • prairie dog — any of several burrowing rodents of the genus Cynomys, of North American prairies, having a barklike cry: some are endangered.
  • prairie owl — burrowing owl.
  • pramipexole — a dopamine agonist used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease.
  • prattlement — chatter, prattling
  • prayer book — a book containing formal prayers to be used in public or private religious devotions.
  • 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-adamite — a person supposed to have existed before Adam.
  • pre-address — a speech or written statement, usually formal, directed to a particular group of persons: the president's address on the state of the economy.
  • 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-arrange — to arrange in advance or beforehand.
  • pre-bargain — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
  • pre-cardiac — of or relating to the heart: cardiac disease.
  • 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-embargo — an order of a government prohibiting the movement of merchant ships into or out of its ports.
  • 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.
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