11-letter words containing n, o, a, p, r, e
- neuropteral — (zoology) Of or pertaining to the Neuroptera.
- neuropteran — neuropterous.
- neutropenia — a decrease in the number of neutrophils in the blood: mild, moderate, or severe neutropenia.
- nomographer — the art of or a treatise on drawing up laws.
- nonoperatic — not operatic
- nonparallel — extending in the same direction, equidistant at all points, and never converging or diverging: parallel rows of trees.
- nonparental — of or relating to a parent.
- nonpersonal — Not personal.
- nonpregnant — Not pregnant.
- nonspecular — that reflects light diffusely and evenly over the hemisphere surrounding the reflective surface; diffuse
- nontemporal — not indicating time
- norway pine — red pine.
- nosy parker — a prying person
- noun phrase — a construction that functions syntactically as a noun, consisting of a noun and any modifiers, as all the men in the room who are reading books, or of a noun substitute, as a pronoun.
- ocean perch — redfish (def 1).
- old persian — an ancient West Iranian language attested by cuneiform inscriptions. Abbreviation: OPers.
- open market — an unrestricted competitive market in which any buyer and seller is free to participate.
- open-hearth — noting, pertaining to, or produced by the open-hearth process.
- openhearted — Frank and candid.
- operational — able to function or be used; functional: How soon will the new factory be operational?
- oppignorate — to promise or give as security
- orange peel — outer skin of an orange
- orthopteran — orthopterous.
- outerplanar — (mathematics) Describing a graph having a planar embedding such that the vertices lie on a circle and the edges lie inside that circle.
- over-expand — to increase in extent, size, volume, scope, etc.: Heat expands most metals. He hopes to expand his company.
- overexplain — to explain in too much detail
- overlapping — to lap over (something else or each other); extend over and cover a part of; imbricate.
- overpayment — to pay more than (an amount due): I received a credit after overpaying the bill.
- overplanned — resulting from overplanning
- paint horse — paint (def 6).
- panchreston — a proposed explanation intended to address a complex problem by trying to account for all possible contingencies but typically proving to be too broadly conceived and therefore oversimplified to be of any practical use.
- panegyricon — a collection of sermons
- panicmonger — a person who spreads panic
- paper money — currency in paper form, such as government and bank notes, as distinguished from metal currency.
- paper round — job delivering newspapers
- paper-bound — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
- paperperson — a person who delivers newspapers to customers door to door.
- paranephros — the adrenal gland
- parasensory — extrasensory.
- parent body — an organization's parent body is the organization that created it and usually still controls it
- parishioner — one of the community or inhabitants of a parish.
- partitioner — a division into or distribution in portions or shares.
- paternoster — a molding having the form of a row of pearls.
- patter song — a comic song depending for its humorous effect on rapid enunciation of the words, occurring most commonly in comic opera and operetta.
- peano curve — a curve that passes through every point of a two-dimensional region.
- peanut worm — any small, unsegmented, marine worm of the phylum Sipuncula, that when disturbed retracts its anterior portion into the body, giving the appearance of a peanut seed.
- 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.
- pedantocrat — a pedantic ruler
- pelargonium — any plant of the genus Pelargonium, the cultivated species of which are usually called geranium. Compare geranium (def 2).