11-letter words containing n, y, o, r
- polyandrist — a woman who practices or favors polyandry.
- polyandrous — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or practicing polyandry; polyandric.
- polyangular — multangular; multiangular.
- polycentric — having many centers, especially of power or importance: the polycentric world of banking.
- polynuclear — having many nuclei.
- polystyrene — a clear plastic or stiff foam, a polymer of styrene, used chiefly as an insulator in refrigerators and air conditioners.
- ponderingly — in a pondering manner
- ponderosity — of great weight; heavy; massive.
- ponderously — of great weight; heavy; massive.
- pondicherry — a union territory of India, on the Coromandel Coast: formerly the chief settlement of French India; territory includes Mahé (on the Malabar Coast), Karikal, and Yanaon. 181 sq. mi. (469 sq. km).
- pornography — sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, whose purpose is to elicit sexual arousal.
- porphyratin — any of various complex compounds formed of metals and porphyrins
- potteringly — in a pottering fashion, slowly
- potty-train — to teach a small child to use a potty or toilet
- poultry-man — a person who raises domestic fowls, especially chickens, to sell as meat; a chicken farmer.
- premonetary — of or relating to the coinage or currency of a country.
- premonitory — giving premonition; serving to warn beforehand.
- prepollency — the quality of being prepollent
- press money — prest money.
- prest money — a sum of money advanced to men enlisting in the navy or the army, given to bind the bargain and as an inducement.
- prison yard — a piece of enclosed ground attached to a prison, where prisoners may take exercise at certain times
- prize money — money offered, won, or received in prizes.
- profanatory — tending to desecrate; profaning.
- proficiency — the state of being proficient; skill; expertness: proficiency in music.
- prominently — standing out so as to be seen easily; conspicuous; particularly noticeable: Her eyes are her most prominent feature.
- promisingly — giving favorable promise; likely to turn out well: a promising young man; a promising situation.
- prony brake — a friction brake serving as a dynamometer for measuring torque.
- prophesying — to foretell or predict.
- propinquity — nearness in place; proximity.
- propylamine — an isomeric amine of propyl
- proselyting — a person who has changed from one opinion, religious belief, sect, or the like, to another; convert.
- prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
- prosiliency — prominence
- protanomaly — a defect of vision characterized by a diminished response of the retina to red.
- protogynous — of or relating to a flower in which the shedding of pollen occurs after the stigma has stopped being receptive; having female sex organs maturing before the male.
- protonotary — prothonotary.
- prototyping — The creation of a model and the simulation of all aspects of a product. CASE tools support different degrees of prototyping. Some offer the end-user the ability to review all aspects of the user interface and the structure of documentation and reports before code is generated.
- providently — having or showing foresight; providing carefully for the future.
- pycniospore — the spore produced in a pycnium.
- pyrobitumen — any of the dark, solid hydrocarbons including peat, coal, and bituminous shale.
- pyrogenetic — heat-producing
- pyrognostic — relating to heated minerals
- pyrokinesis — the ability to set objects or people on fire through the concentration of psychic power.
- pyrokinetic — the ability to set objects or people on fire through the concentration of psychic power.
- pyrotechnic — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
- pyrovanadic — of or relating to an acid of vanadium
- pyroxenitic — relating to pyroxenite
- pyrrolidine — a colorless, water-soluble, unpleasant smelling, poisonous liquid, C 4 H 9 N, from which proline and certain alkaloids are derived, prepared by reducing pyrrole: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- pythagorean — of or relating to Pythagoras, to his school, or to his doctrines.
- quadraphony — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.