11-letter words containing l, o, n, r
- orientalist — A person (especially a scholar) interested in the orient.
- orientality — the state of being oriental
- orientalize — Alternative capitalization of Orientalize.
- originalism — The principle or belief that the original intent of an author should be adhered to in later interpretations of a work.
- originalist — One who has, or tends to have, original ideas.
- originality — the quality or state of being original.
- orland park — a town in NE Illinois.
- ornamentals — Plural form of ornamental.
- ornithology — the branch of zoology that deals with birds.
- orthodontal — the branch of dentistry dealing with the prevention and correction of irregular teeth, as by means of braces.
- orthonormal — (of a system of functions) normal; normalized.
- outerplanar — (mathematics) Describing a graph having a planar embedding such that the vertices lie on a circle and the edges lie inside that circle.
- outgenerals — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outgeneral.
- over-handle — a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
- overanalyse — Alternative spelling of overanalyze.
- overanalyze — to separate (a material or abstract entity) into constituent parts or elements; determine the elements or essential features of (opposed to synthesize): to analyze an argument.
- overbalance — to outweigh: The opportunity overbalances the disadvantages of leaving town.
- overblanket — a blanket that is placed on a bed on top of the other bedding
- overblowing — A technique for playing a wind instrument so as to produce overtones.
- overcontrol — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
- overexplain — to explain in too much detail
- overflowing — to flow or run over, as rivers or water: After the thaw, the river overflows and causes great damage.
- overfulness — the state of being too full
- overindulge — eat, do to excess
- overinflate — to inflate to an excessive degree
- overlapping — to lap over (something else or each other); extend over and cover a part of; imbricate.
- overloading — (language) (Or "Operator overloading"). Use of a single symbol to represent operators with different argument types, e.g. "-", used either, as a monadic operator to negate an expression, or as a dyadic operator to return the difference between two expressions. Another example is "+" used to add either integers or floating-point numbers. Overloading is also known as ad-hoc polymorphism. User-defined operator overloading is provided by several modern programming languages, e.g. C++'s class system and the functional programming language Haskell's type classes. Ad-hoc polymorphism (better described as overloading) is the ability to use the same syntax for objects of different types, e.g. "+" for addition of reals and integers or "-" for unary negation or diadic subtraction. Parametric polymorphism allows the same object code for a function to handle arguments of many types but overloading only reuses syntax and requires different code to handle different types.
- overlocking — the act of oversewing a hem or fabric edge to prevent fraying
- overlooking — to fail to notice, perceive, or consider: to overlook a misspelled word.
- overplanned — resulting from overplanning
- overswollen — too swollen
- overviolent — excessively violent
- ozone layer — Meteorology. the layer of the upper atmosphere where most atmospheric ozone is concentrated, from about 8 to 30 miles (12 to 48 km) above the earth, with the maximum ozone concentration occurring at an altitude of about 12 miles (19 km).
- palindromic — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
- pantropical — living or growing throughout the tropics.
- parabolanus — a member of an early Christian brotherhood in Alexandria and Constantinople who helped the sick in the times of plague
- paralimnion — the region of a lake floor between the shoreline or water's edge and the zone of rooted vegetation
- paramountly — chief in importance or impact; supreme; preeminent: a point of paramount significance.
- parasol ant — leaf-cutting ant.
- parking lot — an area, usually divided into individual spaces, intended for parking motor vehicles.
- paronychial — of or relating to paronychia
- patrimonial — an estate inherited from one's father or ancestors.
- patroclinic — inherited from the father; more like the father than the mother
- patrolwoman — a policewoman who is assigned to patrol a specific district, route, etc.
- pearl danio — a slender iridescent tropical cyprinid, Brachydanio albolineatus, from parts of southeast Asia: a popular freshwater aquarium fish.
- pearl onion — a small white onion, often pickled and used as an appetizer or garnish.
- pelargonium — any plant of the genus Pelargonium, the cultivated species of which are usually called geranium. Compare geranium (def 2).
- penciliform — having a pencillike shape.
- percolation — the act or state of percolating or of being percolated.
- perduellion — high treason