11-letter words containing c, a, r, o, l
- overclasses — Plural form of overclass.
- pace bowler — a bowler who characteristically delivers the ball rapidly
- paleoarctic — palearctic.
- paleocortex — the olfactory region of the brain.
- palindromic — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
- pantropical — living or growing throughout the tropics.
- papal cross — a cross with three horizontal crosspieces.
- parabolical — of, relating to, or involving a parable.
- paracetamol — painkilling drug
- paradoxical — having the nature of a paradox; self-contradictory.
- parcel bomb — explosive device in a package
- 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.
- parfocality — the quality of being parfocal
- parfocalize — to make parfocal
- parochially — of, relating to, or financially supported by one or more church parishes: parochial churches in Great Britain.
- paronychial — of or relating to paronychia
- patroclinic — inherited from the father; more like the father than the mother
- perchlorate — a salt or ester of perchloric acid, as potassium perchlorate, KClO 4 .
- percolation — the act or state of percolating or of being percolated.
- pictorially — pertaining to, expressed in, or of the nature of a picture.
- pilocarpine — an oil or crystalline alkaloid, C 1 1 H 1 6 N 2 O 2 , obtained from jaborandi, and used chiefly to produce sweating, promote the flow of saliva, contract the pupil of the eye, and for glaucoma.
- pilot chart — any of a number of charts issued to mariners by the U.S. Hydrographic Office and showing meteorological, hydrographic, and navigational conditions prevailing, or likely to prevail, subsequent to the date of issue in some part of the world: issued monthly for most areas.
- pink collar — of or relating to a type of employment traditionally held by women, especially relatively low-paying work: secretaries, phone operators, and other pink-collar workers.
- pink-collar — of or relating to a type of employment traditionally held by women, especially relatively low-paying work: secretaries, phone operators, and other pink-collar workers.
- piscatorial — of or relating to fishermen or fishing: a piscatory treaty.
- placeholder — Mathematics, Logic. a symbol in an expression that may be replaced by the name of any element of the set.
- plantocracy — government by plantation owners.
- play doctor — a person, usually a professional playwright, employed to improve a script, especially shortly before the play's opening.
- plecopteran — Also, plecopterous. belonging or pertaining to the insect order Plecoptera, comprising the stoneflies.
- plutocratic — of, relating to, or characterized by a plutocracy or plutocrats.
- polariscope — an instrument for measuring or exhibiting the polarization of light or for examining substances in polarized light, often to determine stress and strain in glass and other substances.
- policymaker — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- polycarpous — producing fruit many times, as a perennial plant.
- polycrystal — an object composed of randomly oriented crystals, formed by rapid solidification
- polygraphic — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
- polynuclear — having many nuclei.
- port lavaca — a town in S Texas.
- post-racial — characterized by the absence of racial discord, discrimination, or prejudice previously or historically present: post-racial politics; the post-racial era.
- postal card — a card sold by the post office with a stamp already printed on it.
- postcranial — located posterior to the head.
- power cable — cable for conducting electric power.
- 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
- precisional — the state or quality of being precise.
- precolonial — of or relating to the time before a region or country became a colony.
- predoctoral — of or relating to study undertaken in preparation for a doctoral degree.
- proactively — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- problematic — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
- procephalic — of or relating to the head.
- procerebral — relating to the procerebrum
- processable — capable of being processed.