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11-letter words containing o, r, e, n, s

  • pentandrous — of or pertaining to the order of plants Pentandria, characterized by having five stamens
  • perceptions — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
  • peritonitis — inflammation of the peritoneum, often accompanied by pain and tenderness in the abdomen, vomiting, constipation, and moderate fever.
  • persecution — the act of persecuting.
  • person-year — a unit of measurement, especially in accountancy, based on an ideal amount of work done by one person in a year consisting of a standard number of person-days.
  • 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.
  • personation — to act or portray (a character in a play, a part, etc.).
  • personified — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
  • personifies — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
  • personpower — the power or influence of a person
  • persorption — the deep penetration of a liquid into a highly porous solid, resulting in an intimate mixture.
  • petropounds — the multiples of the British pound as regarded in terms of income derived from petroleum
  • phanerogams — any of the Phanerogamia, a former primary division of plants comprising those having reproductive organs; a flowering plant or seed plant (opposed to cryptogam).
  • photosensor — a photocell used to detect light.
  • pierrefonds — a former city in S Quebec, Canada, now part of Montreal.
  • pitchperson — a pitchman or pitchwoman
  • polystyrene — a clear plastic or stiff foam, a polymer of styrene, used chiefly as an insulator in refrigerators and air conditioners.
  • pond-skater — any of various heteropterous insects of the family Gerrididae, esp Gerris lacustris (common pond-skater), having a slender hairy body and long hairy legs with which they skim about on the surface of ponds
  • ponderosity — of great weight; heavy; massive.
  • ponderously — of great weight; heavy; massive.
  • pore fungus — any fungus of the families Boletacea and Polyporaceae, bearing spores in tubes or pores.
  • port neches — a town in SE Texas.
  • post-modern — noting or pertaining to architecture of the late 20th century, appearing in the 1960s, that consciously uses complex forms, fantasy, and allusions to historic styles, in contrast to the austere forms and emphasis on utility of standard modern architecture.
  • postconcert — occurring after a concert
  • powder snow — powder1 (def 3).
  • pre-notions — a preconception.
  • pre-scoring — to record the sound of (a motion picture) before filming.
  • preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
  • precisional — the state or quality of being precise.
  • precognosce — to conduct a preliminary examination of (a witness, a claim) prior to a trial
  • preconquest — of or relating to the time before the conquest of one people, region, or country by another.
  • preinvasion — occurring before an invasion
  • preposition — any member of a class of words found in many languages that are used before nouns, pronouns, or other substantives to form phrases functioning as modifiers of verbs, nouns, or adjectives, and that typically express a spatial, temporal, or other relationship, as in, on, by, to, since.
  • prescission — the action of prescinding
  • presolution — the act of solving a problem, question, etc.: The situation is approaching solution.
  • press baron — an influential newspaper publisher or owner who usually controls more than one widely circulated newspaper.
  • press money — prest money.
  • prest money — a sum of money advanced to men enlisting in the navy or the army, given to bind the bargain and as an inducement.
  • prestations — a payment in money or in services.
  • prestonpans — a seaside resort in the Lothian region, in SE Scotland, E of Edinburgh: battle 1745.
  • presumption — the act of presuming.
  • pretensions — the laying of a claim to something.
  • pretentious — characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-important waiter.
  • previsional — characteristic of prevision
  • pro-chinese — the standard language of China, based on the speech of Beijing; Mandarin.
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