11-letter words containing o, n, p, a
- open dating — the practice of putting a freshness date on food packages.
- open market — an unrestricted competitive market in which any buyer and seller is free to participate.
- open season — a specific season or time of year when it is legal to catch or hunt for fish or game protected at all other times by the law.
- open sesame — any marvelously effective means for bringing about a desired result: Wealth is the open sesame to happiness.
- open stance — a batting stance in which the front foot is farther from the inside of the batter's box than the back foot.
- open-handed — generous; liberal: openhanded hospitality.
- open-hearth — noting, pertaining to, or produced by the open-hearth process.
- openability — The quality of being openable.
- openhearted — Frank and candid.
- opening act — the first act at a concert, etc, esp before a main act
- operational — able to function or be used; functional: How soon will the new factory be operational?
- opinionated — obstinate or conceited with regard to the merit of one's own opinions; conceitedly dogmatic.
- opinionates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of opinionate.
- opinionator — (obsolete) An opinionated person; one given to conjecture.
- oppignorate — to promise or give as security
- oppugnation — Opposition.
- optionality — left to one's choice; not required or mandatory: Formal dress is optional.
- orange peel — outer skin of an orange
- organ point — a tone sustained by one part, usually the bass, while other parts progress without reference to it.
- orland park — a town in NE Illinois.
- orphan drug — Pharmacology. a drug that remains undeveloped or untested or is otherwise neglected because of limited potential for commercial gain.
- 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.
- outline map — a map which only provides very basic information so that more details can be added
- outpatients — Plural form of outpatient.
- outspanning — Present participle of outspan.
- 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
- packing box — a box in which goods are packed for transport or storage.
- paddy wagon — Informal. patrol wagon.
- paedodontic — of or relating to paedodontics
- paint horse — paint (def 6).
- palaeontol. — palaeontology
- paleobotany — the branch of paleontology dealing with fossil plants.
- 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.
- palpitation — the act of palpitating.
- 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.
- pandemonian — a noisy and disorderly person
- pandemonium — wild uproar or unrestrained disorder; tumult or chaos.
- panegyricon — a collection of sermons
- panel house — a brothel having rooms with secret entrances, as sliding panels, for admitting panel thieves.
- panel point — a joint between two or more members of a truss.
- panglossian — characterized by or given to extreme optimism, especially in the face of unrelieved hardship or adversity.
- pango pango — Pago Pago.
- panicmonger — a person who spreads panic
- panomphaean — understood universally
- panromantic — noting or relating to a person who is romantically attracted to people of all sexual orientations and gender identities: The singer came out as queer and panromantic at age 17.