11-letter words containing d, r, o, s, p
- overspender — someone who overspends
- paramastoid — of or relating to the part of the skull next to the mastoid process
- parotiditis — inflammation of a parotid.
- parson bird — tui.
- pass around — distribute, circulate
- patio doors — doors to an area adjoining a house, esp one that is paved and used for outdoor activities
- pentandrous — of or pertaining to the order of plants Pentandria, characterized by having five stamens
- 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
- pierrefonds — a former city in S Quebec, Canada, now part of Montreal.
- piss around — If you say that someone pisses around or pisses about, you mean they waste a lot of time doing unimportant things.
- polyandrist — a woman who practices or favors polyandry.
- polyandrous — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or practicing polyandry; polyandric.
- 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.
- port hudson — a village in SE Louisiana, on the Mississippi, N of Baton Rouge: siege during the U.S. Civil War 1863.
- 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 card — a card sold by the post office with a stamp already printed on it.
- postdivorce — of, or relating to the period after a person is divorced
- 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.
- prison yard — a piece of enclosed ground attached to a prison, where prisoners may take exercise at certain times
- proceedings — a particular action or course or manner of action.
- productions — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
- 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.
- propagandas — information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
- prosauropod — a herbivorous dinosaur of the Triassic and early Jurassic periods
- prostituted — a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money; whore; harlot.
- protandrous — (of hermaphrodite or monoecious plants) maturing the anthers before the stigma
- 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.
- pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
- pseudomorph — an irregular or unclassifiable form.
- 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.
- psychodrama — a method of group psychotherapy in which participants take roles in improvisational dramatizations of emotionally charged situations.
- purse-proud — proud of one's wealth, especially in an arrogant or showy manner.
- push around — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- radarscopes — Plural form of radarscope.
- record shop — store selling recorded music