11-letter words containing e, r, o, s, i
- overservice — to give more service than required to (something)
- overtedious — extremely tedious
- overtension — the act of stretching or straining.
- ovuliferous — holding ovules
- oxenstierna — Count Axel [ahk-suh l] /ˈɑk səl/ (Show IPA), 1583–1654, Swedish statesman.
- oxfordshire — a county in S England. 1008 sq. mi. (2610 sq. km).
- oyster pink — a delicate pinkish-white colour, sometimes with a greyish tinge
- ozoniferous — containing ozone.
- paint horse — paint (def 6).
- parishioner — one of the community or inhabitants of a parish.
- passeriform — of or relating to the order Passeriformes; passerine.
- pastoralize — to make pastoral or rural.
- perceptions — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
- perestroika — Russian. the program of economic and political reform in the Soviet Union initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986.
- perichylous — (of a plant) having water-storing tissue outside the green tissue
- periostitis — inflammation of the periosteum.
- perissology — the use of a superfluity of words; an expression of something using more words than necessary
- peritonitis — inflammation of the peritoneum, often accompanied by pain and tenderness in the abdomen, vomiting, constipation, and moderate fever.
- peroxisomal — of or relating to a peroxisome; of the nature of a peroxisome
- perquisitor — the first person to own property that has subsequently been handed down to his heirs
- persecution — the act of persecuting.
- personalise — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
- personalism — Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
- personalist — Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
- personality — the visible aspect of one's character as it impresses others: He has a pleasing personality.
- personalize — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
- personation — to act or portray (a character in a play, a part, etc.).
- personified — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- personifies — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- persorption — the deep penetration of a liquid into a highly porous solid, resulting in an intimate mixture.
- perspicuous — clearly expressed or presented; lucid.
- pestiferous — bringing or bearing disease.
- petit fours — a small teacake, variously frosted and decorated.
- philosopher — a person who offers views or theories on profound questions in ethics, metaphysics, logic, and other related fields.
- phosphorite — a sedimentary rock sufficiently rich in phosphate minerals to be used as a source of phosphorus for fertilizers.
- phosphorize — phosphorate (def 1).
- photoresist — Electronics. a photosensitive liquid polymer, used in photolithography to produce integrated circuits.
- physiolater — somebody who worships nature
- physiometry — measurement of the physiological functions of the body.
- pierrefonds — a former city in S Quebec, Canada, now part of Montreal.
- pilot raise — a small raise intended to be enlarged later.
- pipe smoker — a person who smokes a tobacco pipe
- piperaceous — belonging to the Piperacae, the pepper family of plants.
- pitchperson — a pitchman or pitchwoman
- pleiomerous — (of a flower) having a greater than normal number of parts
- pleochroism — the property of certain crystals of exhibiting different colors when viewed from different directions under transmitted light. Compare dichroism (def 1), trichroism.
- plumigerous — wearing or possessing feathers
- plyometrics — a system of exercise in which the muscles are repeatedly stretched and suddenly contracted
- polariscope — an instrument for measuring or exhibiting the polarization of light or for examining substances in polarized light, often to determine stress and strain in glass and other substances.
- poltergeist — a ghost or spirit supposed to manifest its presence by noises, knockings, etc.