11-letter words containing a, r, e, t, s
- polysorbate — any of a class of emulsifying and dispersing agents used in various foods and pharmaceutical preparations.
- 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
- postharvest — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- potter wasp — any of several mason wasps, especially of the genus Eumenes, that construct a juglike nest of mud.
- 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.
- precautious — using or displaying precaution: a precautious reply; a precautious person.
- prediabetes — a condition in which carbohydrate metabolism is mildly abnormal but other criteria indicating diabetes mellitus are absent.
- predispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- predynastic — of, relating to, or belonging to a time or period before the first dynasty of a nation, especially the period in Egypt before c3200 b.c.
- prelateship — the rank of a prelate
- prendergast — Maurice Brazil [braz-uh l] /ˈbræz əl/ (Show IPA), 1859–1924, U.S. painter.
- presagement — an omen
- presanctify — to sanctify ahead of an event
- presbyteral — of or relating to a presbyter or presbytery
- present-day — current; modern: present-day techniques; present-day English.
- presentable — that may be presented.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- primateship — primacy (def 2).
- privateness — the quality of being private
- 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
- 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.
- pyrosulfate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid.
- quadratures — Plural form of quadrature.
- quadruplets — Plural form of quadruplet.
- quantifiers — Logic. an expression, as “all” or “some,” that indicates the quantity of a proposition. Compare existential quantifier, universal quantifier.
- quarantines — Plural form of quarantine.
- quarterlies — Plural form of quarterly.
- quaternions — Plural form of quaternion.
- quatre bras — a village in central Belgium, near Brussels: battle preliminary to the battle of Waterloo fought here 1815.
- quatrefoils — Plural form of quatrefoil.
- quaver rest — a musical rest or silence that lasts for the equivalent of a quaver or eighth note
- questionary — a questionnaire.
- quizmasters — Plural form of quizmaster.
- rabbit ears — an indoor television antenna consisting of two telescoping, swivel-based aerials.
- rail strike — a strike by railway workers
- rain forest — a tropical forest, usually of tall, densely growing, broad-leaved evergreen trees in an area of high annual rainfall.
- rallymaster — an organizer and director of an automobile rally.
- rangemaster — a person in charge of a firing range.
- rankshifted — that has been shifted from one linguistic rank to another