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

  • prolificacy — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
  • promilitary — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
  • prophylaxis — Medicine/Medical. the preventing of disease. the prevention of a specific disease, as by studying the biological behavior, transmission, etc., of its causative agent and applying a series of measures against it.
  • propylamine — an isomeric amine of propyl
  • prosaically — commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
  • protanomaly — a defect of vision characterized by a diminished response of the retina to red.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • pyelography — the science or technique of making photographs of the kidneys, renal pelves, and ureters by means of x-rays, after the injection of an opaque solution or of a radiopaque dye.
  • pyroballogy — the study of artillery
  • pyroclastic — composed chiefly of fragments of volcanic origin, as agglomerate, tuff, and certain other rocks; volcaniclastic.
  • pyrogallate — a salt or ether of pyrogallol.
  • pyrolysable — able to be pyrolysed
  • pyrosulfate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid.
  • pyrrhuloxia — a cardinallike grosbeak, Cardinalis (Pyrrhuloxia) sinuatus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having a bill superficially resembling that of a parrot.
  • rally round — show solidarity
  • rapturously — full of, feeling, or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight.
  • rationality — the state or quality of being rational.
  • religionary — pertaining to religion
  • retaliatory — to return like for like, especially evil for evil: to retaliate for an injury.
  • rhinoplasty — plastic surgery of the nose.
  • rhyme royal — a form of verse introduced into English by Chaucer, consisting of seven-line stanzas of iambic pentameter in which there are three rhymes, the first line rhyming with the third, the second with the fourth and fifth, and the sixth with the seventh.
  • roadability — the ability of a motor vehicle to maintain a steady, balanced, and comfortable ride, especially under a variety of road conditions.
  • robotically — in a robotic manner
  • rose family — the plant family Rosaceae, characterized by trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants having compound or simple leaves with stipules, flowers typically with five sepals and five petals, and fruit in a variety of forms, many of which are fleshy and edible, and including the almond, apple, apricot, blackberry, cherry, cinquefoil, hawthorn, peach, pear, plum, raspberry, rose, spirea, and strawberry.
  • rotary club — a local club of business and professional men that is a member of a world-wide organization of similar clubs (Rotary International) devoted to serving the community and promoting world peace.
  • rotary dial — dial (def 4).
  • rotary kiln — type of industrial oven
  • rotary plow — a tined auger mounted on a horizontal power-driven shaft, for pulverizing unplowed soil preparatory to planting.
  • royal burgh — (in Scotland) a burgh that was established by a royal charter granted directly by the sovereign
  • royal flush — the five highest cards of a suit.
  • royal gorge — a gorge of the Arkansas River in S central Colorado. 10 miles (16 km) long; up to 1000 feet (305 meters) deep.
  • royal icing — a hard white icing made from egg whites and icing sugar, used for coating and decorating cakes, esp fruit cakes
  • royal jelly — a viscous substance secreted from the pharyngeal glands of worker honeybees, fed to all larvae during their first few days and afterward only to those larvae selected to be queens.
  • salmonberry — the salmon-colored, edible fruit of a raspberry, Rubus spectabilis, of the Pacific coast of North America.
  • sartorially — of or relating to tailors or their trade: sartorial workmanship.
  • school year — the months of the year during which school is open and attendance at school is required.
  • sclerocauly — the feature of having a hard, dry stem
  • secondarily — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
  • self-parody — a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing: his hilarious parody of Hamlet's soliloquy.
  • sensorially — with respect to sensation; in a sensorial way
  • sialography — radiography of salivary glands once they have been injected with a contrast medium
  • solar cycle — the variation of sunspots, prominences, flares, and other solar activity through an 11-year cycle.
  • sorbability — the ability of something to absorb
  • southwardly — toward the south
  • speculatory — a place suitable for observation
  • stary oskol — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, SW of Voronezh.
  • statutorily — of, relating to, or of the nature of a statute.
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