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11-letter words containing l, p, s, o, e, r

  • nonpersonal — Not personal.
  • nonspecular — that reflects light diffusely and evenly over the hemisphere surrounding the reflective surface; diffuse
  • north slope — the northern coastal area of Alaska, rich in oil and natural gas: so called because it is N of the Brooks Range sloping down to the Arctic Ocean.
  • old persian — an ancient West Iranian language attested by cuneiform inscriptions. Abbreviation: OPers.
  • oral herpes — a disease caused by herpes simplex virus type 1, characterized primarily by a cluster of small, transient blisters chiefly at the edge of the lip or nostril; herpes labialis.
  • parcel post — (in the U.S. Postal Service) nonpreferential mail consisting of packages and parcels, weighing one pound or more sent at fourth-class rates. Compare fourth class.
  • pastoralize — to make pastoral or rural.
  • perichylous — (of a plant) having water-storing tissue outside the green tissue
  • perissology — the use of a superfluity of words; an expression of something using more words than necessary
  • peroxisomal — of or relating to a peroxisome; of the nature of a peroxisome
  • personal ad — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
  • personalise — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
  • personalism — Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
  • personalist — Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
  • personality — the visible aspect of one's character as it impresses others: He has a pleasing personality.
  • personalize — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
  • pervouralsk — a city in the central RSFSR, in the Ural Mountains in Asia.
  • philosopher — a person who offers views or theories on profound questions in ethics, metaphysics, logic, and other related fields.
  • phraseology — manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language: legal phraseology.
  • physiolater — somebody who worships nature
  • phytosterol — Biochemistry. any of various sterols obtained from plants.
  • pilot raise — a small raise intended to be enlarged later.
  • plasterwork — finish or ornamental work done in plaster.
  • plastometer — an instrument for measuring the plasticity of a substance.
  • pleiomerous — (of a flower) having a greater than normal number of parts
  • pleochroism — the property of certain crystals of exhibiting different colors when viewed from different directions under transmitted light. Compare dichroism (def 1), trichroism.
  • ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough
  • plumigerous — wearing or possessing feathers
  • 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.
  • polariscope — an instrument for measuring or exhibiting the polarization of light or for examining substances in polarized light, often to determine stress and strain in glass and other substances.
  • poles apart — each of the extremities of the axis of the earth or of any spherical body.
  • poltergeist — a ghost or spirit supposed to manifest its presence by noises, knockings, etc.
  • polyestrous — having several estrus cycles annually or during a breeding season.
  • polymerizes — to subject to polymerization.
  • polysorbate — any of a class of emulsifying and dispersing agents used in various foods and pharmaceutical preparations.
  • polyspermia — the secretion of an excessive amount of semen.
  • polystyrene — a clear plastic or stiff foam, a polymer of styrene, used chiefly as an insulator in refrigerators and air conditioners.
  • ponderously — of great weight; heavy; massive.
  • post-holder — a person who has a particular job or position
  • posteriorly — situated behind or at the rear of; hinder (opposed to anterior).
  • pre-closure — the act of closing; the state of being closed.
  • precisional — the state or quality of being precise.
  • predisposal — to give an inclination or tendency to beforehand; make susceptible: Genetic factors may predispose human beings to certain metabolic diseases.
  • prep school — preparatory school.
  • preschooler — a child below the official school starting age, usually a child up to age five.
  • preselector — a preamplifier between the antenna and receiving circuit, used to improve reception.
  • presolution — the act of solving a problem, question, etc.: The situation is approaching solution.
  • previsional — characteristic of prevision
  • priest-hole — a secret chamber in certain houses in England, built as a hiding place for Roman Catholic priests when they were proscribed in the 16th and 17th centuries
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