11-letter words containing d, e, p, o, s
- personal ad — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- personified — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- petropounds — the multiples of the British pound as regarded in terms of income derived from petroleum
- phosphatide — phospholipid.
- photostated — a camera for making facsimile copies of documents, drawings, etc., in the form of paper negatives on which the positions of lines, objects, etc., in the originals are maintained.
- piece goods — goods, esp fabrics, made in standard widths and lengths
- piedmontese — a native or inhabitant of Piedmont, Italy.
- pierrefonds — a former city in S Quebec, Canada, now part of Montreal.
- plasmodesma — any of many minute strands of cytoplasm that extend through plant cell walls and connect adjoining cells.
- polysulfide — a sulfide whose molecules contain two or more atoms of sulfur.
- pond-skater — any of various heteropterous insects of the family Gerrididae, esp Gerris lacustris (common pond-skater), having a slender hairy body and long hairy legs with which they skim about on the surface of ponds
- ponderosity — of great weight; heavy; massive.
- ponderously — of great weight; heavy; massive.
- possessedly — in a possessed manner
- post-holder — a person who has a particular job or position
- post-modern — noting or pertaining to architecture of the late 20th century, appearing in the 1960s, that consciously uses complex forms, fantasy, and allusions to historic styles, in contrast to the austere forms and emphasis on utility of standard modern architecture.
- postal code — British. postcode.
- postdivorce — of, or relating to the period after a person is divorced
- postediting — the act of editing after a piece of writing has been produced or printed by a machine
- powder snow — powder1 (def 3).
- pre-imposed — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
- preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
- precomposed — to compose beforehand: to precompose a reply to a possible question.
- predecessor — parent
- predisposal — to give an inclination or tendency to beforehand; make susceptible: Genetic factors may predispose human beings to certain metabolic diseases.
- predisposed — to give an inclination or tendency to beforehand; make susceptible: Genetic factors may predispose human beings to certain metabolic diseases.
- prioritised — to arrange or do in order of priority: learning to prioritize our assignments.
- proceedings — a particular action or course or manner of action.
- professedly — allegedly; pretendedly: He is only professedly poor.
- prompt side — the part of the stage that in the U.S. is to the right and in Britain to the left as one faces the audience. Abbreviation: P.S.
- prostituted — a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money; whore; harlot.
- proud flesh — granulation tissue.
- providences — a seaport in and the capital of Rhode Island, in the NE part, at the head of Narragansett Bay.
- provisioned — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- pseudo-code — a program code unrelated to the hardware of a particular computer and requiring conversion to the code used by the computer before the program can be used.
- pseudoedema — effusion of serous fluid into the interstices of cells in tissue spaces or into body cavities.
- pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
- pseudologia — a psychological condition in which a patient tells elaborate, false stories believing them to be true
- pseudologue — a person who suffers from pseudologia
- pseudomonad — any of various bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas
- pseudomonas — any of several rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas, certain species of which are pathogenic for plants and animals.
- pseudomorph — an irregular or unclassifiable form.
- pseudophone — an instrument for producing illusory auditory localization by changing the relationship between the receptor and the actual direction of the sound.
- pseudopodal — (of protozoans) belonging to the former division Pseudopoda
- pseudopodia — pseudopod.
- pseudoprime — A backgammon prime (six consecutive occupied points) with one point missing. This term is an esoteric pun derived from a mathematical method that, rather than determining precisely whether a number is prime (has no divisors), uses a statistical technique to decide whether the number is "probably" prime. A number that passes this test is called a pseudoprime. The hacker backgammon usage stems from the idea that a pseudoprime is almost as good as a prime: it does the job of a prime until proven otherwise, and that probably won't happen.
- pseudoscope — an optical instrument for producing an image in which the depth or relief of an object is reversed.
- pseudoscopy — the use of a pseudoscope.
- psychodelia — the production of, or the culture associated with, psychedelic experiences
- puget sound — an arm of the Pacific, in NW Washington.