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11-letter words containing l, a, p, i, e

  • 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.
  • polarizable — to cause polarization in.
  • policewoman — a female member of a police force or body.
  • policymaker — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • politbureau — (often lowercase) the executive committee and chief policymaking body of a Communist Party.
  • polyspermia — the secretion of an excessive amount of semen.
  • portal vein — the large vein conveying blood to the liver from the veins of the stomach, intestine, spleen, and pancreas.
  • postexilian — being or occurring subsequent to the exile of the Jews in Babylonia 597–538 b.c.
  • potentially — possibly but not yet actually: potentially useful information.
  • practicable — capable of being done, effected, or put into practice, with the available means; feasible: a practicable solution.
  • praecordial — of or pertaining to a part of the body near or in front of the heart; located near to or in front of the heart
  • prairie owl — burrowing owl.
  • pramipexole — a dopamine agonist used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease.
  • pre-diploma — a document given by an educational institution conferring a degree on a person or certifying that the person has satisfactorily completed a course of study.
  • pre-ethical — not governed by ethics, or not having an ethical or moral aspect
  • pre-exilian — being or occurring prior to the exile of the Jews in Babylonia 597–538 b.c.
  • pre-holiday — a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person.
  • pre-islamic — existing prior to the ascendancy of Islam; pre-Muslim.
  • pre-seminal — released before semen is ejaculated
  • preachingly — in a preaching manner, with preaching
  • prebiblical — written, existing or occurring prior to the writing of the Bible; pertaining to this time period
  • precisional — the state or quality of being precise.
  • preclinical — of or relating to the period prior to the appearance of the symptoms.
  • precolonial — of or relating to the time before a region or country became a colony.
  • precritical — anteceding a crisis.
  • predictable — able to be foretold or declared in advance: New technology allows predictable weather forecasting.
  • predictably — able to be foretold or declared in advance: New technology allows predictable weather forecasting.
  • predisposal — to give an inclination or tendency to beforehand; make susceptible: Genetic factors may predispose human beings to certain metabolic diseases.
  • prejudicial — causing prejudice or disadvantage; detrimental.
  • prelateship — the rank of a prelate
  • prelibation — a foretaste.
  • preliminary — preceding and leading up to the main part, matter, or business; introductory; preparatory: preliminary examinations.
  • preliterary — occurring before the existence of literature
  • preliterate — lacking a written language; nonliterate: a preliterate culture.
  • prematerial — the substance or substances of which a thing is made or composed: Stone is a durable material.
  • premedieval — prior to the Middle Ages.
  • preprandial — before a meal, especially before dinner; anteprandial: a preprandial apéritif.
  • preterminal — situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
  • prevailment — the action of prevailing
  • previsional — characteristic of prevision
  • prickleback — any of several blennioid fishes of the family Stichaeidae, usually inhabiting cold waters, having spiny rays in the dorsal fin.
  • 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.
  • primigenial — relating to an early stage of existence; primitive
  • private law — a branch of law dealing with the legal relationships of private individuals. Compare public law (def 2).
  • proactively — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
  • problematic — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
  • procephalic — of or relating to the head.
  • prodigalize — to spend lavishly
  • proletarian — pertaining or belonging to the proletariat.
  • proletariat — common people, working class
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