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11-letter words containing l, a, s, e, r

  • plasticware — knives, forks, spoons, cups, etc., made of plastic: a picnic hamper with plasticware for six.
  • plastiqueur — a person, especially a terrorist, who makes, places, or detonates plastic bombs.
  • plastometer — an instrument for measuring the plasticity of a substance.
  • plateresque — noting or pertaining to a 16th-century style of Spanish architecture characterized by profuse applications of delicate low-relief Renaissance ornament to isolated parts of building exteriors.
  • pleasurable — such as to give pleasure; enjoyable; agreeable; pleasant: a pleasurable experience.
  • pleasureful — the state or feeling of being pleased.
  • pleinairism — pertaining to a manner or style of painting developed chiefly in France in the mid-19th century, characterized by the representation of the luminous effects of natural light and atmosphere as contrasted with the artificial light and absence of the sense of air or atmosphere associated with paintings produced in the studio.
  • ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough
  • pluriserial — having many series or rows
  • poetry slam — a violent and noisy closing, dashing, or impact.
  • 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.
  • poles apart — each of the extremities of the axis of the earth or of any spherical body.
  • polysorbate — any of a class of emulsifying and dispersing agents used in various foods and pharmaceutical preparations.
  • polyspermia — the secretion of an excessive amount of semen.
  • pre-islamic — existing prior to the ascendancy of Islam; pre-Muslim.
  • pre-release — something released beforehand, as a movie shown before its scheduled premiere.
  • pre-seminal — released before semen is ejaculated
  • preassembly — an assembling or coming together of a number of persons, usually for a particular purpose: The principal will speak to all the students at Friday's assembly.
  • precalculus — pertaining to the mathematical prerequisites for the study of calculus, as algebra, analytical geometry, and trigonometry.
  • precisional — the state or quality of being precise.
  • predisposal — to give an inclination or tendency to beforehand; make susceptible: Genetic factors may predispose human beings to certain metabolic diseases.
  • prelateship — the rank of a prelate
  • presbyteral — of or relating to a presbyter or presbytery
  • presentable — that may be presented.
  • preservable — to keep alive or in existence; make lasting: to preserve our liberties as free citizens.
  • previsional — characteristic of prevision
  • pro-slavery — favoring slavery.
  • processable — capable of being processed.
  • protestable — an expression or declaration of objection, disapproval, or dissent, often in opposition to something a person is powerless to prevent or avoid: a protest against increased taxation.
  • pulse radar — a radar system using pulse modulation
  • purchasable — capable of being bought.
  • purple sage — a plant, Salvia leucophylla, of the mint family, native to California, having silvery leaves and purple spikes of flowers.
  • pyrolysable — able to be pyrolysed
  • pyrosulfate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid.
  • quacksalver — a quack doctor.
  • quadrangles — Plural form of quadrangle.
  • quadruplets — Plural form of quadruplet.
  • quarrellous — argumentative or given to complaint
  • quarrelsome — inclined to quarrel; argumentative; contentious.
  • quarterlies — Plural form of quarterly.
  • quatrefoils — Plural form of quatrefoil.
  • rabelaisian — of, relating to, or suggesting François Rabelais, whose work is characterized by broad, coarse humor and keen satire.
  • radicalised — to make radical or more radical, as in politics: young people who are being radicalized by extremist philosophies.
  • radicalness — of or going to the root or origin; fundamental: a radical difference.
  • radicellose — having small roots or rhizoids
  • rail strike — a strike by railway workers
  • rallymaster — an organizer and director of an automobile rally.
  • raptureless — without rapture
  • rathskeller — (in Germany) the cellar of a town hall, often used as a beer hall or restaurant.
  • ratio scale — a scale of measurement of data which permits the comparison of differences of values; a scale having a fixed zero value. The distances travelled by a projectile, for instance, are measured on a ratio scale since it makes sense to talk of one projectile travelling twice as far as another
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