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11-letter words containing l, e, p, t, o

  • petrol pump — a device at a filling station that is used to deliver petrol to the tank of a car and which displays the quantity, quality, and usually the cost of the petrol delivered
  • petrol tank — The petrol tank in a motor vehicle is the container for petrol.
  • phantomlike — an apparition or specter.
  • philoctetes — Classical Mythology. a noted archer and squire of Hercules. Bitten by a snake and abandoned on an island because of his festering wound, he was at length brought by the Greeks to Troy, where he recovered and later killed Paris.
  • phlebectomy — the surgical excision of a vein or part of a vein
  • phlebotomic — of or noting phlebotomy.
  • physiolater — somebody who worships nature
  • phytoalexin — any of a class of plant compounds that accumulate at the site of invading microorganisms and confer resistance to disease.
  • phytosterol — Biochemistry. any of various sterols obtained from plants.
  • pierre loti — Pierre [pyer] /pyɛr/ (Show IPA), (Louis Marie Julien Viaud) 1850–1923, French novelist.
  • pigeon loft — a raised shelter or building where pigeons are kept
  • pill bottle — a small bottle that pills are kept in
  • pilot error — (jargon)   (Sun, from aviation) A user's misconfiguration or misuse of a piece of software, producing apparently bug-like results. E.g. "Joe Luser reported a bug in sendmail that causes it to generate bogus headers." "That's not a bug, that's pilot error. His "sendmail.cf" is hosed." Compare UBD.
  • pilot house — an enclosed structure on the deck of a ship from which it can be navigated.
  • pilot raise — a small raise intended to be enlarged later.
  • pilot whale — a small, common whale, Globicephala sieboldii, of tropical and temperate seas, having a bulbous head.
  • pinchbottle — a bottle with concave sides, as for containing liquor.
  • pixellation — in computer graphics and digital photography, to cause (an image) to break up into pixels, as by overenlarging the image: When enlarging a photograph, first increase the resolution to avoid pixelating it.
  • plagiostome — (of fish) belonging to the genus Plagiostomi, which includes sharks and rays, characterized by a transverse mouth with the jaw suspended from the skull
  • plainstones — the pavement or a paved area in a town or city
  • planetology — the branch of astronomy that deals with the physical features of the planets.
  • planogamete — a motile gamete.
  • plant louse — aphid.
  • planthopper — any member of a large and varied group of homopterous insects that are related to the leafhoppers and the spittlebugs but rarely damage cultivated plants.
  • plasterwork — finish or ornamental work done in plaster.
  • plastometer — an instrument for measuring the plasticity of a substance.
  • plate armor — armor made of thin, flat, shaped pieces of wrought iron or steel.
  • plate block — a block of four or more stamps containing the number or numbers of the printing plate or plates in the margin of the sheet.
  • plate proof — proof taken from a plate ready for printing.
  • plateholder — a lightproof container for a photographic plate, loaded into the camera with the plate and having a slide that is removed before exposing.
  • platinotype — a process of printing positives in which a platinum salt is used, rather than the usual silver salts, in order to make a more permanent print.
  • plecopteran — Also, plecopterous. belonging or pertaining to the insect order Plecoptera, comprising the stoneflies.
  • plectognath — belonging to the Plectognathi, a group or order of fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick, often spiny, scaleless skin, and including the filefish, globefish, puffer, and triggerfish.
  • pleiotropic — the phenomenon of one gene being responsible for or affecting more than one phenotypic characteristic.
  • pleistocene — noting or pertaining to the epoch forming the earlier half of the Quaternary Period, beginning about two million years ago and ending 10,000 years ago, characterized by widespread glacial ice and the advent of modern humans.
  • plenipotent — invested with or possessing full power.
  • pluripotent — (of a cell) capable of developing into any type of cell or tissue except those that form a placenta or embryo: pluripotent stem cells.
  • pluviometer — rain gauge.
  • plyometrics — a system of exercise in which the muscles are repeatedly stretched and suddenly contracted
  • poetry slam — a violent and noisy closing, dashing, or impact.
  • poikilocyte — an abnormally shaped red blood cell
  • polarimeter — an instrument for measuring the amount of light received from a given source as a function of its state of polarization.
  • poles apart — each of the extremities of the axis of the earth or of any spherical body.
  • police motu — a pidginized version of the Motu language, used as a lingua franca in Papua, originally chiefly by the police
  • policy term — The policy term is the lifetime of an insurance policy.
  • poliorcetic — relating to the besieging of cities
  • politbureau — (often lowercase) the executive committee and chief policymaking body of a Communist Party.
  • politicized — to bring a political character or flavor to; make political: to politicize a private dispute.
  • polkadotted — a dot or round spot (printed, woven, or embroidered) repeated to form a pattern on a textile fabric.
  • pollen tube — the protoplasmic tube that is extruded from a germinating pollen grain and grows toward the ovule.
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