11-letter words containing o, r, e, c, t
- outercourse — sexual activity between two or more people that does not involve penetration.
- outreaching — Present participle of outreach.
- outsourcers — Plural form of outsourcer.
- ovariectomy — the operation of removing one or both ovaries; oophorectomy.
- over-excite — to excite too much.
- over-expect — to look forward to; regard as likely to happen; anticipate the occurrence or the coming of: I expect to read it. I expect him later. She expects that they will come.
- overcasting — Meteorology. the condition of the sky when more than 95 percent covered by clouds.
- overcaution — excessive caution
- overcertify — to certify (a bank check) for an amount greater than the balance in the drawer's account.
- overclothes — clothing worn outside other garments.
- overcoating — a coat worn over the ordinary indoor clothing, as in cold weather.
- overcontrol — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
- overcorrect — To correct too sharply or too much.
- overcurrent — a current of a magnitude that is greater than a limiting value, as the value at which a fuse melts.
- overcutting — excessive cutting
- overeducate — to educate too much
- overexcited — to excite too much.
- overexcites — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overexcite.
- overpicture — to describe or portray with exaggeration
- overprotect — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
- overreacted — to react or respond more strongly than is necessary or appropriate.
- overstocked — containing too many fish
- overstretch — to stretch excessively.
- oyster crab — a pea crab, Pinnotheres ostreum, the female of which lives as a commensal within the mantle cavity of oysters.
- paleoarctic — palearctic.
- paleocortex — the olfactory region of the brain.
- 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.
- paracetamol — painkilling drug
- parcel post — (in the U.S. Postal Service) nonpreferential mail consisting of packages and parcels, weighing one pound or more sent at fourth-class rates. Compare fourth class.
- pct theorem — the proposition that all the laws of physics are unchanged by the combined operations of charge conjugation (C), space inversion (P), and time reversal (T).
- pedantocrat — a pedantic ruler
- penteconter — (in ancient Greece) a commander of fifty men
- perceptions — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
- perchlorate — a salt or ester of perchloric acid, as potassium perchlorate, KClO 4 .
- percolation — the act or state of percolating or of being percolated.
- perfunctory — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
- periodicity — the character of being periodic; the tendency to recur at regular intervals.
- peritonitic — inflammation of the peritoneum, often accompanied by pain and tenderness in the abdomen, vomiting, constipation, and moderate fever.
- perlocution — (of a speech act) producing an effect upon the listener, as in persuading, frightening, amusing, or causing the listener to act.
- persecution — the act of persecuting.
- persecutors — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
- persecutory — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
- photocopier — any electrically operated machine using a photographic method, as the electrostatic process, for making instant copies of written, drawn, or printed material.
- photometric — the measurement of the intensity of light or of relative illuminating power.
- photoreduce — to undergo or to cause to undergo photoreduction
- phytochrome — a plant pigment that is associated with the absorption of light in the photoperiodic response and that may regulate various types of growth and development.
- picturegoer — a person who goes to the cinema, esp frequently
- piezometric — any of several instruments for measuring the pressure of a fluid or the compressibility of a substance when subjected to such a pressure.
- pirate copy — an illicitly reproduced copy of a DVD, video, book, game, etc
- pitchometer — an instrument embodying a clinometer, for measuring the pitch of a ship's propeller