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

  • prendergast — Maurice Brazil [braz-uh l] /ˈbræz əl/ (Show IPA), 1859–1924, U.S. painter.
  • prepurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
  • presagement — an omen
  • presanctify — to sanctify ahead of an event
  • presbycusia — impaired hearing due to old age.
  • presbyteral — of or relating to a presbyter or presbytery
  • present-day — current; modern: present-day techniques; present-day English.
  • presentable — that may be presented.
  • preservable — to keep alive or in existence; make lasting: to preserve our liberties as free citizens.
  • press agent — a person employed to promote the interests of an individual, organization, etc., by obtaining favorable publicity through advertisements, mentions in columns, and the like.
  • press baron — an influential newspaper publisher or owner who usually controls more than one widely circulated newspaper.
  • press brake — brake1 (def 6).
  • press party — a party given for reporters and photographers exclusively or particularly to get publicity, as for the introduction of a new product, the maiden voyage of a liner, or the like.
  • prestandard — something considered by an authority or by general consent as a basis of comparison; an approved model.
  • prestations — a payment in money or in services.
  • prestonpans — a seaside resort in the Lothian region, in SE Scotland, E of Edinburgh: battle 1745.
  • presynaptic — being or occurring on the transmitting end of a discharge across a synapse.
  • previsional — characteristic of prevision
  • prick-tease — a woman who is sexually provocative but refuses to engage in sexual activity
  • priestcraft — the training, knowledge, and abilities necessary to a priest.
  • primariness — the state of being primary
  • primateship — primacy (def 2).
  • privateness — the quality of being private
  • pro-slavery — favoring slavery.
  • processable — capable of being processed.
  • procrustean — pertaining to or suggestive of Procrustes.
  • prokaryotes — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
  • proof stage — the stage of publishing where trial impressions made from composed type, or print-outs (from a laser printer, etc) are read for the correction of errors
  • prosaicness — commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
  • prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
  • prosopopeia — personification, as of inanimate things.
  • prostomiate — having a prostomium.
  • protestable — an expression or declaration of objection, disapproval, or dissent, often in opposition to something a person is powerless to prevent or avoid: a protest against increased taxation.
  • prussianize — to make Prussian, as in character, method, organization, etc.
  • pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
  • pulse radar — a radar system using pulse modulation
  • purchasable — capable of being bought.
  • pure reason — reason based on a priori principles and providing a unifying ground for the perception of the phenomenal world.
  • purple sage — a plant, Salvia leucophylla, of the mint family, native to California, having silvery leaves and purple spikes of flowers.
  • pyrolysable — able to be pyrolysed
  • pyrosulfate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid.
  • quadruplets — Plural form of quadruplet.
  • radarscopes — Plural form of radarscope.
  • rap session — a usually informal or unstructured group discussion, attended especially by people with shared interests, concerns, or problems.
  • rapid chess — a game of chess played within a fixed amount of time, usually 30 minutes per player for all moves.
  • raptureless — without rapture
  • raspberries — the fruit of any of several shrubs belonging to the genus Rubus, of the rose family, consisting of small and juicy red, black, or pale yellow drupelets forming a detachable cap about a convex receptacle.
  • re-emphasis — special stress laid upon, or importance attached to, anything: The president's statement gave emphasis to the budgetary crisis.
  • reappraisal — the act of estimating or judging the nature or value of something or someone.
  • reappraiser — a person who appraises someone or something again
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