11-letter words containing c, a, n, o, p
- porto rican — former official name (until 1932) of Puerto Rico.
- postcranial — located posterior to the head.
- potvaliancy — brave only as a result of being drunk.
- power chain — an endless chain for transmitting motion and power between sprockets on shafts with parallel axes.
- preannounce — to make known publicly or officially; proclaim; give notice of: to announce a special sale.
- precisional — the state or quality of being precise.
- precolonial — of or relating to the time before a region or country became a colony.
- precontract — a preexisting contract that legally prevents a person from making another contract of the same nature.
- predication — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
- preoccupant — a previous occupant
- preromantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
- prevacation — a period of suspension of work, study, or other activity, usually used for rest, recreation, or travel; recess or holiday: Schoolchildren are on vacation now.
- prison camp — a camp for the confinement of prisoners of war or political prisoners.
- pro-african — Also, Africa. of or from Africa; belonging to the black peoples of Africa.
- pro-vaccine — any preparation used as a preventive inoculation to confer immunity against a specific disease, usually employing an innocuous form of the disease agent, as killed or weakened bacteria or viruses, to stimulate antibody production.
- proclaimant — someone who proclaims
- proconsular — Roman History. an official, usually a former consul, who acted as governor or military commander of a province, and who had powers similar to those of a consul.
- procreation — to beget or generate (offspring).
- procrustean — pertaining to or suggestive of Procrustes.
- procuration — the act of obtaining or getting; procurement.
- 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.
- prosobranch — a gastropod mollusc of the subclass Prosobranchia, which includes conches, limpets, abalones, and numerous aquatic and terrestrial snails
- protodeacon — a chief deacon in the Greek Church.
- protraction — the act of protracting; prolongation; extension.
- provocation — the act of provoking.
- psychoanal. — psychoanalysis
- psychomancy — occult communication between souls or with spirits.
- publication — the act of publishing a book, periodical, map, piece of music, engraving, or the like.
- pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
- pump-action — (of a shotgun or rifle) having an action that extracts the empty case, loads, and cocks the piece by means of a hand-operated lever that slides backward and forward; slide-action.
- punctuation — the practice or system of using certain conventional marks or characters in writing or printing in order to separate elements and make the meaning clear, as in ending a sentence or separating clauses.
- punicaceous — of or relating to the family Punicaceae, containing the pomegranates
- pyrovanadic — of or relating to an acid of vanadium
- radiophonic — a radiotelephone.
- rapscallion — a rascal; rogue; scamp.
- reciprocant — a differential invariant
- renographic — of or pertaining to renography, using or produced by a renogram
- replication — a reply; answer.
- rockhampton — a city in E Queensland, in E Australia.
- roman peace — the establishment and maintenance of peace by armed force.
- roman punch — a lemon-water ice flavored with rum or other alcoholic beverage.
- rope dancer — a person who walks across or performs acrobatics upon a rope stretched at some height above the floor or ground.
- ropedancing — the act of dancing on a rope
- saponaceous — resembling soap; soapy.
- scenography — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
- scolopendra — a member of a genus of centipedes belonging to the Scolopendridae family
- scopolamine — a colorless, syrupy, water-soluble alkaloid, C 1 7 H 2 1 NO 4 , obtained from certain plants of the nightshade family, used chiefly as a sedative and mydriatic and to alleviate the symptoms of motion sickness.
- scorpaenoid — resembling or related to the family Scorpaenidae.
- scotch snap — a rhythmic pattern consisting of a short note followed by a long one