11-letter words containing a, p, o, r, t, e
- operational — able to function or be used; functional: How soon will the new factory be operational?
- operatively — a person engaged, employed, or skilled in some branch of work, especially productive or industrial work; worker.
- operativity — a person engaged, employed, or skilled in some branch of work, especially productive or industrial work; worker.
- operatories — a room or other area with special equipment and facilities, as for dental surgery, scientific experiments, or the like.
- operculated — relating to the operculum
- oppignorate — to promise or give as security
- orthopaedic — of or relating to orthopedics.
- orthopteran — orthopterous.
- osteography — The scientific description of bones; osteology.
- ostreophage — someone who loves or eats oysters
- ostreophagy — the consumption of oysters
- outer space — space beyond the atmosphere of the earth.
- outerplanar — (mathematics) Describing a graph having a planar embedding such that the vertices lie on a circle and the edges lie inside that circle.
- overoperate — to operate on (a patient) unnecessarily
- overpayment — to pay more than (an amount due): I received a credit after overpaying the bill.
- paedotrophy — the art of raising children
- pagoda tree — a Chinese leguminous tree, Sophora japonica, with ornamental white flowers and dark green foliage
- paint horse — paint (def 6).
- paleoarctic — palearctic.
- paleocortex — the olfactory region of the brain.
- panchreston — a proposed explanation intended to address a complex problem by trying to account for all possible contingencies but typically proving to be too broadly conceived and therefore oversimplified to be of any practical use.
- paper route — A paper route is the same as a paper round.
- paper towel — absorbent kitchen tissue
- paracetamol — painkilling drug
- paratrooper — a member of a military infantry unit trained to attack or land in combat areas by parachuting from airplanes.
- parcel post — (in the U.S. Postal Service) nonpreferential mail consisting of packages and parcels, weighing one pound or more sent at fourth-class rates. Compare fourth class.
- parent body — an organization's parent body is the organization that created it and usually still controls it
- park forest — a city in NE Illinois.
- partitioner — a division into or distribution in portions or shares.
- pastoralize — to make pastoral or rural.
- patelliform — having the form of a patella; shaped like a saucer, kneecap, or limpet shell.
- paternoster — a molding having the form of a row of pearls.
- patter song — a comic song depending for its humorous effect on rapid enunciation of the words, occurring most commonly in comic opera and operetta.
- pea-shooter — a tube through which dried peas, beans, or small pellets are blown, used as a toy.
- peanut worm — any small, unsegmented, marine worm of the phylum Sipuncula, that when disturbed retracts its anterior portion into the body, giving the appearance of a peanut seed.
- pedantocrat — a pedantic ruler
- pelotherapy — the application of mud to the body for therapeutic purposes
- penetration — the act or power of penetrating.
- pentahedron — a solid figure having five faces.
- pentamerous — consisting of or divided into five parts.
- pentandrous — of or pertaining to the order of plants Pentandria, characterized by having five stamens
- perchlorate — a salt or ester of perchloric acid, as potassium perchlorate, KClO 4 .
- percolation — the act or state of percolating or of being percolated.
- perduration — the act of lasting forever or enduring continually; the capacity to endure indefinitely
- perennation — the survival of a plant through the winter or dry season
- perestroika — Russian. the program of economic and political reform in the Soviet Union initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986.
- perforation — a hole, or one of a series of holes, bored or punched through something, as those between individual postage stamps of a sheet to facilitate separation.
- perforative — that perforates readily
- periodontal — of or relating to the periodontium.
- periodontia — the bone, connective tissue, and gum surrounding and supporting a tooth.