11-letter words containing o, r, a, l, e
- physiolater — somebody who worships nature
- 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.
- pilot raise — a small raise intended to be enlarged later.
- placeholder — Mathematics, Logic. a symbol in an expression that may be replaced by the name of any element of the set.
- 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.
- plasterwork — finish or ornamental work done in plaster.
- plastometer — an instrument for measuring the plasticity of a substance.
- plate armor — armor made of thin, flat, shaped pieces of wrought iron or steel.
- plate proof — proof taken from a plate ready for printing.
- plateholder — a lightproof container for a photographic plate, loaded into the camera with the plate and having a slide that is removed before exposing.
- plecopteran — Also, plecopterous. belonging or pertaining to the insect order Plecoptera, comprising the stoneflies.
- plerophoria — full conviction
- pleurodynia — pain in the chest or side.
- ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough
- poetry slam — a violent and noisy closing, dashing, or impact.
- 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)
- polarimeter — an instrument for measuring the amount of light received from a given source as a function of its state of polarization.
- polariscope — an instrument for measuring or exhibiting the polarization of light or for examining substances in polarized light, often to determine stress and strain in glass and other substances.
- polarizable — to cause polarization in.
- pole hammer — a shafted weapon having a spiked hammer head.
- poles apart — each of the extremities of the axis of the earth or of any spherical body.
- policymaker — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- politbureau — (often lowercase) the executive committee and chief policymaking body of a Communist Party.
- polygrapher — a person who employs a code cipher
- polynuclear — having many nuclei.
- polysorbate — any of a class of emulsifying and dispersing agents used in various foods and pharmaceutical preparations.
- polyspermia — the secretion of an excessive amount of semen.
- pool player — a person who plays pool
- pork barrel — a government appropriation, bill, or policy that supplies funds for local improvements designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents.
- portal vein — the large vein conveying blood to the liver from the veins of the stomach, intestine, spleen, and pancreas.
- potwalloper — (in some boroughs before the Reform Bill of 1832) a man who qualified as a householder, and therefore a voter, by virtue of ownership of his own fireplace at which to boil pots.
- powder flag — red flag (def 4).
- power alley — either of the two areas in the outfield between the outfielders
- power cable — cable for conducting electric power.
- power plant — a plant, including engines, dynamos, etc., and the building or buildings necessary for the generation of power, as electric or nuclear power.
- praecordial — of or pertaining to a part of the body near or in front of the heart; located near to or in front of the heart
- prairie owl — burrowing owl.
- pramipexole — a dopamine agonist used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease.
- pre-diploma — a document given by an educational institution conferring a degree on a person or certifying that the person has satisfactorily completed a course of study.
- pre-holiday — a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person.
- preapproval — the act of approving; approbation.
- precisional — the state or quality of being precise.
- precolonial — of or relating to the time before a region or country became a colony.
- predisposal — to give an inclination or tendency to beforehand; make susceptible: Genetic factors may predispose human beings to certain metabolic diseases.
- predoctoral — of or relating to study undertaken in preparation for a doctoral degree.
- prelibation — a foretaste.
- previsional — characteristic of prevision
- pro-slavery — favoring slavery.
- proactively — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- problematic — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.