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11-letter words containing c, r, o, m

  • overconsume — to destroy or expend by use; use up.
  • overcrammed — filled to excess
  • overmuscled — having muscles developed to excess
  • 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.
  • panicmonger — a person who spreads panic
  • panromantic — noting or relating to a person who is romantically attracted to people of all sexual orientations and gender identities: The singer came out as queer and panromantic at age 17.
  • paracetamol — painkilling drug
  • paramountcy — chief in importance or impact; supreme; preeminent: a point of paramount significance.
  • parcel bomb — explosive device in a package
  • pathoformic — Pathology. pertaining to the beginning of a disease, especially to symptoms that occur in the preliminary stages of mental disease.
  • pct theorem — the proposition that all the laws of physics are unchanged by the combined operations of charge conjugation (C), space inversion (P), and time reversal (T).
  • pedomorphic — a speeding up of the rate of development, resulting in an adult form that has the appearance of its larval or juvenile ancestor.
  • penciliform — having a pencillike shape.
  • performance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
  • photochromy — a former technique of color photography.
  • photometric — the measurement of the intensity of light or of relative illuminating power.
  • phytochrome — a plant pigment that is associated with the absorption of light in the photoperiodic response and that may regulate various types of growth and development.
  • piezometric — any of several instruments for measuring the pressure of a fluid or the compressibility of a substance when subjected to such a pressure.
  • pitchometer — an instrument embodying a clinometer, for measuring the pitch of a ship's propeller
  • pleochroism — the property of certain crystals of exhibiting different colors when viewed from different directions under transmitted light. Compare dichroism (def 1), trichroism.
  • pleomorphic — of, relating to, or characterized by pleomorphism; polymorphous.
  • plyometrics — a system of exercise in which the muscles are repeatedly stretched and suddenly contracted
  • policy term — The policy term is the lifetime of an insurance policy.
  • policymaker — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • polychroism — the ability of a crystal to absorb different wavelengths of light and thus to display multiple colours
  • polychromic — having or exhibiting a variety of colors.
  • polycrotism — a polycrotic condition
  • polymorphic — polymorphism
  • pomiculture — the growing or cultivation of fruit.
  • pre-confirm — to make valid or binding by some formal or legal act; sanction; ratify: to confirm a treaty; to confirm her appointment to the Supreme Court.
  • pre-homeric — of, relating to, or suggestive of Homer or his poetry.
  • precomposed — to compose beforehand: to precompose a reply to a possible question.
  • precomputer — designating the period prior to the introduction of computers; occurring or existing in this period
  • preromantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
  • prime focus — the focal point of the objective lens or primary mirror of a telescope
  • prison camp — a camp for the confinement of prisoners of war or political prisoners.
  • problematic — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
  • procerebrum — (in certain invertebrates) the front part of the central nervous system
  • prochronism — a chronological error in which a person, event, etc., is assigned a date earlier than the actual one; prolepsis.
  • proclaimant — someone who proclaims
  • proctodaeum — proctodeum.
  • procurement — the act of procuring, or obtaining or getting by effort, care, or the use of special means: The organ procurement procedure is very complicated.
  • producement — production
  • project mac — (project)   A project suggested by J C R Licklider; its founding director was MIT Prof. Robert M Fano. MAC stood for Multiple Access Computers on the 5th floor of Tech Square, and Man and Computer on the 9th floor. The major efforts were Corbato's Multics development and Marvin Minsky's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In 1963 Project MAC hosted a summer study, which brought many well-known computer scientists to Cambridge to use CTSS and to discuss the future of computing. Funding for Project MAC was provided by the Information Processing Techniques Office of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the US Department of Defense. See also Early PL/I, MacLisp, MACSYMA, MDL, Multipop-68, OCAL.
  • projectment — a design or projection
  • promiscuity — the state of being promiscuous.
  • promiscuous — characterized by or involving indiscriminate mingling or association, especially having sexual relations with a number of partners on a casual basis.
  • promycelium — a short filament produced in the germination of a spore that bears small spores and then dies.
  • prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
  • psychodrama — a method of group psychotherapy in which participants take roles in improvisational dramatizations of emotionally charged situations.
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