11-letter words containing d, e, p, r, a
- premedieval — prior to the Middle Ages.
- premeditate — to meditate, consider, or plan beforehand: to premeditate a murder.
- prendergast — Maurice Brazil [braz-uh l] /ˈbræz əl/ (Show IPA), 1859–1924, U.S. painter.
- preordained — to ordain beforehand; foreordain.
- prepackaged — to package (foodstuffs or manufactured goods) before retail distribution or sale.
- preprandial — before a meal, especially before dinner; anteprandial: a preprandial apéritif.
- preprepared — prepared in advance
- present-day — current; modern: present-day techniques; present-day English.
- prestandard — something considered by an authority or by general consent as a basis of comparison; an approved model.
- prick-eared — British. Informal. (of a man) having the hair cut short. Archaic. following or sympathetic to the Puritans or Roundheads. Archaic. priggish.
- prime ideal — an ideal in a ring with a multiplicative identity, having the property that when the product of two elements of the ring results in an element of the ideal, at least one of the elements is an element of the ideal.
- print media — the industry that is engaged in the printing and dissemination of news through newspapers and magazines
- proctodaeum — proctodeum.
- prodigalize — to spend lavishly
- produceable — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- prolongated — to prolong.
- promenading — a stroll or walk, especially in a public place, as for pleasure or display.
- promulgated — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- proofreader — to read (printers' proofs, copy, etc.) in order to detect and mark errors to be corrected.
- protodeacon — a chief deacon in the Greek Church.
- prudhoe bay — an inlet of the Beaufort Sea, N of Alaska: large oil and gas fields.
- pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
- pterodactyl — any of a number of genera of flying reptiles of the extinct order Pterosauria, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a highly reduced tail and teeth and a birdlike beak.
- pulse radar — a radar system using pulse modulation
- purehearted — (of a person) without malice, treachery, or evil intent; honest; sincere; guileless.
- pyramid bet — a set of bets on two or more horse races or other sporting events in which the stake and winnings from the first bet automatically become the stake in the next bet, and so on as long as each bet wins.
- quadripedal — Four-footed.
- quadrupedal — four-footed.
- quadruplets — Plural form of quadruplet.
- radarscopes — Plural form of radarscope.
- ralph nader — Ralph, born 1934, U.S. lawyer, author, political reformer, and consumer advocate.
- rapid chess — a game of chess played within a fixed amount of time, usually 30 minutes per player for all moves.
- reappointed — to name or assign to a position, an office, or the like; designate: to appoint a new treasurer; to appoint a judge to the bench.
- red snapper — any of several snappers of the genus Lutjanus, especially L. campechanus, a large food fish of the Gulf of Mexico.
- reduplicate — to double; repeat.
- reexplained — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
- relandscape — to landscape again after a previous landscaping
- repaglinide — an oral drug used in the treatment of type 2 diabetes, often in combination with metformin.
- report card — a written report containing an evaluation of a pupil's scholarship and behavior, sent periodically to the pupil's parents or guardian, usually on a card containing marks and comments together with a record of attendance.
- repudiation — the act of repudiating.
- repudiative — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
- repudiatory — the act of repudiating.
- retired pay — retirement pay; pension
- rhododaphne — a shrub with narrow, poisonous evergreen leaves and attractive pink flowers, also known as oleander or rosebay
- rope dancer — a person who walks across or performs acrobatics upon a rope stretched at some height above the floor or ground.
- rope ladder — ladder made primarily of rope
- rope-a-dope — a method of tiring out a boxing opponent by pretending to be trapped on the ropes while the opponent expends energy on punches that are blocked
- ropedancing — the act of dancing on a rope
- safe period — an interval of the menstrual cycle when fertilization is considered to be least likely, usually a number of days prior and subsequent to the onset of menstruation.
- saline drip — the usually intravenous drop-by-drop administration of an isotonic solution of sodium chloride in distilled water