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11-letter words containing l, a, t, r, o

  • postmarital — occurring, effective, or provided after marriage
  • postorbital — located behind the orbit or socket of the eye.
  • postulatory — of or relating to a postulate or assumption
  • potwalloper — (in some boroughs before the Reform Bill of 1832) a man who qualified as a householder, and therefore a voter, by virtue of ownership of his own fireplace at which to boil pots.
  • poultry-man — a person who raises domestic fowls, especially chickens, to sell as meat; a chicken farmer.
  • pourability — to send (a liquid, fluid, or anything in loose particles) flowing or falling, as from one container to another, or into, over, or on something: to pour a glass of milk; to pour water on a plant.
  • power plant — a plant, including engines, dynamos, etc., and the building or buildings necessary for the generation of power, as electric or nuclear power.
  • predoctoral — of or relating to study undertaken in preparation for a doctoral degree.
  • prelibation — a foretaste.
  • primatology — the branch of zoology dealing with the primates.
  • 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.
  • probability — the quality or fact of being probable.
  • probational — the act of testing.
  • problematic — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
  • proclaimant — someone who proclaims
  • prodigality — the quality or fact of being prodigal; wasteful extravagance in spending.
  • projectable — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
  • proletarian — pertaining or belonging to the proletariat.
  • proletariat — common people, working class
  • proletarize — to proletarianize.
  • proliferate — spread
  • prolongated — to prolong.
  • promilitary — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
  • promotional — advancement in rank or position.
  • promulgated — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
  • promulgator — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
  • pronatalism — the policy or practice of encouraging the bearing of children, especially government support of a higher birthrate.
  • pronatalist — the policy or practice of encouraging the bearing of children, especially government support of a higher birthrate.
  • prone float — a prone floating position, used especially by beginning swimmers, with face downward, legs extended backward, and arms stretched forward.
  • prophetical — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
  • protanomaly — a defect of vision characterized by a diminished response of the retina to red.
  • protectable — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
  • 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.
  • prothalamia — a song or poem written to celebrate a marriage.
  • prothallium — Botany. the gametophyte of ferns and related plants.
  • prothalloid — resembling a prothallus
  • protococcal — of or relating to unicellular algae of the former genus Protococcus, one of which (renamed Pleurococcus vulgaris) is a green alga commonly found on trees, walls, etc
  • protocolary — the customs and regulations dealing with diplomatic formality, precedence, and etiquette.
  • protogalaxy — the large concentration of gas and dust from which a galaxy is formed.
  • protoplanet — the collection of matter, in the process of condensation, from which a planet is formed.
  • protractile — capable of being protracted, lengthened, or protruded.
  • proximately — next; nearest; immediately before or after in order, place, occurrence, etc.
  • 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.
  • pulveration — the reduction of something to powder
  • purgatorial — removing or purging sin; expiatory: purgatorial rites.
  • pyroclastic — composed chiefly of fragments of volcanic origin, as agglomerate, tuff, and certain other rocks; volcaniclastic.
  • pyrogallate — a salt or ether of pyrogallol.
  • pyrosulfate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid.
  • quatrefoils — Plural form of quatrefoil.
  • rabbit hole — opening of a rabbit's burrow
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