11-letter words containing o, p, s, a
- pousse-cafe — an after-dinner drink of liqueurs of various colors and specific gravities, carefully poured into a glass so as to remain floating in separate layers.
- praetorship — the office of a praetor.
- preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
- precautious — using or displaying precaution: a precautious reply; a precautious person.
- 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.
- preinvasion — occurring before an invasion
- press baron — an influential newspaper publisher or owner who usually controls more than one widely circulated newspaper.
- prestations — a payment in money or in services.
- prestonpans — a seaside resort in the Lothian region, in SE Scotland, E of Edinburgh: battle 1745.
- previsional — characteristic of prevision
- primiparous — a woman who has borne but one child or who is parturient for the first time.
- prison camp — a camp for the confinement of prisoners of war or political prisoners.
- prison farm — a farm attached to a prison, where prisoners carry out hard labour
- prison yard — a piece of enclosed ground attached to a prison, where prisoners may take exercise at certain times
- pro-fascist — a person who believes in or sympathizes with fascism.
- pro-slavery — favoring slavery.
- probabilism — Philosophy. the doctrine, introduced by the Skeptics, that certainty is impossible and that probability suffices to govern faith and practice.
- processable — capable of being processed.
- proconsular — Roman History. an official, usually a former consul, who acted as governor or military commander of a province, and who had powers similar to those of a consul.
- procrustean — pertaining to or suggestive of Procrustes.
- profits tax — tax charged on the profits made by a company, individual, etc
- prognathism — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- prognathous — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- prokaryotes — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
- pronatalism — the policy or practice of encouraging the bearing of children, especially government support of a higher birthrate.
- pronatalist — the policy or practice of encouraging the bearing of children, especially government support of a higher birthrate.
- pronominals — Grammar. pertaining to, resembling, derived from, or containing a pronoun: “My” in “my book” is a pronominal adjective. “There” is a pronominal adverb.
- proof stage — the stage of publishing where trial impressions made from composed type, or print-outs (from a laser printer, etc) are read for the correction of errors
- propagandas — information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
- prophylaxis — Medicine/Medical. the preventing of disease. the prevention of a specific disease, as by studying the biological behavior, transmission, etc., of its causative agent and applying a series of measures against it.
- pros. atty. — prosecuting attorney
- prosaically — commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
- prosaicness — commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
- prosauropod — a herbivorous dinosaur of the Triassic and early Jurassic periods
- prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
- prosobranch — a gastropod mollusc of the subclass Prosobranchia, which includes conches, limpets, abalones, and numerous aquatic and terrestrial snails
- prosopopeia — personification, as of inanimate things.
- prostatitis — inflammation of the prostate gland.
- prostomiate — having a prostomium.
- prostrating — to cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.
- prostration — the act of prostrating.
- protagonism — the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.
- protagonist — the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.
- protandrous — (of hermaphrodite or monoecious plants) maturing the anthers before the stigma
- protestable — an expression or declaration of objection, disapproval, or dissent, often in opposition to something a person is powerless to prevent or avoid: a protest against increased taxation.
- provascular — of or relating to procambium
- provisional — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
- psammophile — a plant or animal that thrives in sand
- psammophyte — a plant that grows in sand or sandy soil.