11-letter words containing c, r, o, s, p
- 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
- prison camp — a camp for the confinement of prisoners of war or political prisoners.
- pro-chinese — the standard language of China, based on the speech of Beijing; Mandarin.
- pro-fascist — a person who believes in or sympathizes with fascism.
- proceedings — a particular action or course or manner of action.
- processable — capable of being processed.
- processible — capable of being processed.
- prochronism — a chronological error in which a person, event, etc., is assigned a date earlier than the actual one; prolepsis.
- 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.
- procrustean — pertaining to or suggestive of Procrustes.
- proctorship — a person appointed to keep watch over students at examinations.
- proctoscope — an instrument for visual examination of the interior of the rectum.
- proctoscopy — examination by means of a proctoscope.
- productions — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
- 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.
- prosaically — commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
- 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
- prosobranch — a gastropod mollusc of the subclass Prosobranchia, which includes conches, limpets, abalones, and numerous aquatic and terrestrial snails
- 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.
- protectress — a woman who guards or defends someone or something; protector.
- protocolist — a person who drafts protocols
- provascular — of or relating to procambium
- providences — a seaport in and the capital of Rhode Island, in the NE part, at the head of Narragansett Bay.
- psychodrama — a method of group psychotherapy in which participants take roles in improvisational dramatizations of emotionally charged situations.
- psychograph — Psychology. a graph indicating the relative strength of the personality traits of an individual.
- psychometer — a device for measuring mental or psychological activity
- psychometry — Psychology. psychometrics.
- psychomotor — of or relating to a response involving both motor and psychological components.
- pycniospore — the spore produced in a pycnium.
- pyroclastic — composed chiefly of fragments of volcanic origin, as agglomerate, tuff, and certain other rocks; volcaniclastic.
- pyrognostic — relating to heated minerals
- radarscopes — Plural form of radarscope.
- rapscallion — a rascal; rogue; scamp.
- record shop — store selling recorded music
- reject shop — a shop that sells damaged or imperfect products that cannot be sold at the full price
- reprocessed — (of wool) previously spun and woven but not used, as tailors' clippings.
- rescription — a reply or answering of a letter
- respondence — the act of responding; response: respondence to a stimulus.
- retinoscope — an apparatus that determines the refractive power of the eye by observing the lights and shadows on the pupil when a mirror illumines the retina; skiascope.