11-letter words containing c, o, p, r, e, s
- perceptions — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
- perichylous — (of a plant) having water-storing tissue outside the green tissue
- persecution — the act of persecuting.
- persecutors — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
- persecutory — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
- perspicuous — clearly expressed or presented; lucid.
- piperaceous — belonging to the Piperacae, the pepper family of plants.
- pitchperson — a pitchman or pitchwoman
- pleochroism — the property of certain crystals of exhibiting different colors when viewed from different directions under transmitted light. Compare dichroism (def 1), trichroism.
- plyometrics — a system of exercise in which the muscles are repeatedly stretched and suddenly contracted
- 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.
- port neches — a town in SE Texas.
- postconcert — occurring after a concert
- postdivorce — of, or relating to the period after a person is divorced
- posticteric — pertaining to or affected with icterus; jaundiced.
- pot scourer — a small ball of wire or stiff plastic, or a flat piece of a rough fabric used for cleaning kitchen pots and pans
- pot sticker — a pan-fried and steamed Chinese dumpling with a ground meat or vegetable filling.
- pre-closure — the act of closing; the state of being closed.
- pre-scoring — to record the sound of (a motion picture) before filming.
- precautious — using or displaying precaution: a precautious reply; a precautious person.
- precipitous — of the nature of or characterized by precipices: a precipitous wall of rock.
- precisional — the state or quality of being precise.
- precognosce — to conduct a preliminary examination of (a witness, a claim) prior to a trial
- precomposed — to compose beforehand: to precompose a reply to a possible question.
- preconquest — of or relating to the time before the conquest of one people, region, or country by another.
- predecessor — parent
- prehistoric — of or relating to the time or a period prior to recorded history: The dinosaur is a prehistoric beast.
- prep school — preparatory school.
- preschooler — a child below the official school starting age, usually a child up to age five.
- prescission — the action of prescinding
- preselector — a preamplifier between the antenna and receiving circuit, used to improve reception.
- press corps — a group of journalists representing various publications who regularly cover the same beat: the White House press corps.
- prime focus — the focal point of the objective lens or primary mirror of a telescope
- pro-chinese — the standard language of China, based on the speech of Beijing; Mandarin.
- proceedings — a particular action or course or manner of action.
- processable — capable of being processed.
- processible — capable of being processed.
- procrustean — pertaining to or suggestive of Procrustes.
- proctoscope — an instrument for visual examination of the interior of the rectum.
- prosaicness — commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
- prosecuting — carrying out a prosecution
- prosecution — Law. the institution and carrying on of legal proceedings against a person. the body of officials by whom such proceedings are instituted and carried on.
- prosecutory — of, relating to, or concerned with prosecution.
- prosecutrix — a female prosecutor or plaintiff
- prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
- prosiliency — prominence
- prospecting — Usually, prospects. an apparent probability of advancement, success, profit, etc. the outlook for the future: good business prospects.
- prospection — anticipation
- prospective — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- prosthetics — an artificial body part; a prosthesis: Hundreds of amputees volunteered to test the new prosthetics.