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

  • petrol bomb — Molotov cocktail.
  • 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.
  • phalanstery — the buildings occupied by a phalanx. the community itself.
  • phrenetical — of or relating to phrenitis
  • phylacteric — of or relating to phylacteries
  • physiolater — somebody who worships nature
  • phytosterol — Biochemistry. any of various sterols obtained from plants.
  • pierre loti — Pierre [pyer] /pyɛr/ (Show IPA), (Louis Marie Julien Viaud) 1850–1923, French novelist.
  • 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 raise — a small raise intended to be enlarged later.
  • pipistrelle — any of numerous insectivorous bats of the genus Pipistrellus, especially P. pipistrellus of Europe and Asia.
  • plain tripe — the fatty, inner lining of the first stomach (the rumen) of a steer, calf, hog, or sheep, having a bland taste and used as a food, especially in the preparation of such dishes as haggis, head cheese, etc.
  • plane chart — a chart used in plane sailing, in which the lines of latitude and longitude are straight and parallel
  • planer tree — a small tree, Planera aquatica, of the elm family, growing in moist ground in the southern U.S., bearing a small, ovoid, nutlike fruit and yielding a compact light-brown wood.
  • planet gear — any of the gears in an epicyclic train surrounding and engaging with the sun gear.
  • planetarian — a staff member at a planetarium.
  • planetarium — an apparatus or model representing the planetary system.
  • planimetric — the measurement of plane areas.
  • 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.
  • plantigrade — walking on the whole sole of the foot, as humans, and bears.
  • plasterwork — finish or ornamental work done in plaster.
  • plasticizer — any of a group of substances that are used in plastics or other materials to impart viscosity, flexibility, softness, or other properties to the finished product.
  • 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.
  • plate armor — armor made of thin, flat, shaped pieces of wrought iron or steel.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • platyrrhine — Anthropology. having a broad, flat-bridged nose.
  • play-centre — a regular meeting of small children arranged by their parents or a welfare agency to give them an opportunity of supervised creative play
  • plecopteran — Also, plecopterous. belonging or pertaining to the insect order Plecoptera, comprising the stoneflies.
  • pleiotropic — the phenomenon of one gene being responsible for or affecting more than one phenotypic characteristic.
  • pleximetric — relating to a pleximeter
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • poltergeist — a ghost or spirit supposed to manifest its presence by noises, knockings, etc.
  • poltroonery — a wretched coward; craven.
  • polycentric — having many centers, especially of power or importance: the polycentric world of banking.
  • polyculture — the raising at the same time and place of more than one species of plant or animal.
  • polyestrous — having several estrus cycles annually or during a breeding season.
  • polysorbate — any of a class of emulsifying and dispersing agents used in various foods and pharmaceutical preparations.
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