11-letter words containing o, n, p, a, r, l
- 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).
- percolation — the act or state of percolating or of being percolated.
- periodontal — of or relating to the periodontium.
- 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.
- petrol tank — The petrol tank in a motor vehicle is the container for petrol.
- pilocarpine — an oil or crystalline alkaloid, C 1 1 H 1 6 N 2 O 2 , obtained from jaborandi, and used chiefly to produce sweating, promote the flow of saliva, contract the pupil of the eye, and for glaucoma.
- pink collar — of or relating to a type of employment traditionally held by women, especially relatively low-paying work: secretaries, phone operators, and other pink-collar workers.
- pink-collar — of or relating to a type of employment traditionally held by women, especially relatively low-paying work: secretaries, phone operators, and other pink-collar workers.
- plain flour — ground wheat with no raising agent
- plank floor — a floor made from sawed, straight-grained timber.
- planography — the art or technique of printing from a flat surface directly or by offset.
- 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.
- plantocracy — government by plantation owners.
- planuliform — resembling a planula
- platforming — a process for reforming petroleum using a platinum catalyst
- play around — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- plecopteran — Also, plecopterous. belonging or pertaining to the insect order Plecoptera, comprising the stoneflies.
- pleurodynia — pain in the chest or side.
- polar angle — Usually, polar coordinates. one of two coordinates used to locate a point in a plane by the length of its radius vector and the angle this vector makes with the polar axis (polar angle)
- polar front — Meteorology. the variable frontal zone of middle latitudes separating air masses of polar and tropical origin.
- poll rating — a measurement of a politician's popularity among the electorate, obtained by canvassing a representative sample of people
- polonnaruwa — a town in E central Sri Lanka: Buddhist ruins.
- polyandrist — a woman who practices or favors polyandry.
- polyandrous — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or practicing polyandry; polyandric.
- polyangular — multangular; multiangular.
- polynuclear — having many nuclei.
- portal vein — the large vein conveying blood to the liver from the veins of the stomach, intestine, spleen, and pancreas.
- postcranial — located posterior to the head.
- poultry-man — a person who raises domestic fowls, especially chickens, to sell as meat; a chicken farmer.
- power plant — a plant, including engines, dynamos, etc., and the building or buildings necessary for the generation of power, as electric or nuclear power.
- precisional — the state or quality of being precise.
- precolonial — of or relating to the time before a region or country became a colony.
- prelibation — a foretaste.