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

  • 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
  • pupillarity — the period between birth and puberty, or until attaining majority.
  • purgatorial — removing or purging sin; expiatory: purgatorial rites.
  • puritanical — very strict in moral or religious matters, often excessively so; rigidly austere.
  • purpleheart — the hard, purplish wood of any of several South American trees belonging to the genus Peltogyne, of the legume family, used for making furniture.
  • 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.
  • quadruplets — Plural form of quadruplet.
  • quartz lamp — a lamp consisting of an ultraviolet light source, as mercury vapor, contained in a fused-silica bulb that transmits ultraviolet light with little absorption.
  • raptureless — without rapture
  • rapturously — full of, feeling, or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight.
  • realpolitik — political realism or practical politics, especially policy based on power rather than on ideals.
  • reduplicate — to double; repeat.
  • repatriable — to bring or send back (a person, especially a prisoner of war, a refugee, etc.) to his or her country or land of citizenship.
  • repeat loop — (programming)   (Or "do loop") A loop construct found in many procedural languages which repeatedly executes some instructions while a condition is true. Repeat loops are found in Perl, Pascal, BASIC and C. The initial keyword may be "repeat" or "do" and the condition may be introduced with a "while" or "until" keyword. In constrast to a while loop, the "loop body" is executed once before the condition is tested. This is useful when the condition depends on the action of the loop body. In the following BASIC loop "Hello" is printed once despite the fact that the condition is false; i = 2 repeat print "Hello" i = i+1 until i>0 See also while loop and for loop.
  • repentantly — repenting; penitent; experiencing repentance.
  • repertorial — a type of theatrical presentation in which a company presents several works regularly or in alternate sequence in one season.
  • replacement — the act of replacing.
  • replication — a reply; answer.
  • replicative — characterized by or capable of replication, especially of an experiment.
  • reportorial — of or relating to a reporter.
  • reptilianly — in the manner of a reptilian
  • repugnantly — distasteful, objectionable, or offensive: a repugnant smell.
  • respectable — worthy of respect or esteem; estimable; worthy: a respectable citizen.
  • respectably — worthy of respect or esteem; estimable; worthy: a respectable citizen.
  • retail park — A retail park is a large specially built area, usually at the edge of a town or city, where there are a lot of large shops and sometimes other facilities such as cinemas and restaurants.
  • retail shop — a shop which sells goods to individual customers
  • retrophilia — a strong liking for things from the past
  • rhinoplasty — plastic surgery of the nose.
  • ripple-tank — a shallow container of water in which waves are produced by vibrating an object in the water, used to observe or demonstrate wave phenomena.
  • robot plane — an unmanned plane
  • rotary plow — a tined auger mounted on a horizontal power-driven shaft, for pulverizing unplowed soil preparatory to planting.
  • rupes altai — a mountain range in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 315 miles (507 km) long.
  • sample rate — (digital signal processing)   The number of times an analog signal is measured (sampled) per second. The unit of sample rate is "samples per second". This is often expressed in kiloHertz (kHz). For example, "CD quality" sound has a sample rate of 44 kHz. Compare data rate. See Nyquist frequency.
  • sapropelite — a foul-smelling mud
  • scarlet cup — a small, fleshy, saucer-shaped fungus, Sarcoscypha coccinea, of the family Sarcoscyphaceae, marked by a scarlet inner surface and white exterior, seen on fallen branches in the spring.
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