11-letter words containing o, s, t, p, r, e
- 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.
- port neches — a town in SE Texas.
- porterhouse — Also called porterhouse steak. a choice cut of beef from between the prime ribs and the sirloin.
- post-holder — a person who has a particular job or position
- 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.
- post-mortem — discussion of recent event
- postconcert — occurring after a concert
- postdivorce — of, or relating to the period after a person is divorced
- posteriorly — situated behind or at the rear of; hinder (opposed to anterior).
- posterities — succeeding or future generations collectively: Judgment of this age must be left to posterity.
- postharvest — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- posticteric — pertaining to or affected with icterus; jaundiced.
- postpuberty — the period after puberty
- pot scourer — a small ball of wire or stiff plastic, or a flat piece of a rough fabric used for cleaning kitchen pots and pans
- pot sticker — a pan-fried and steamed Chinese dumpling with a ground meat or vegetable filling.
- potter wasp — any of several mason wasps, especially of the genus Eumenes, that construct a juglike nest of mud.
- potteresque — resembling or suggestive of scenes and situations described in the Harry Potter novels of J. K. Rowling
- praetorship — the office of a praetor.
- pre-notions — a preconception.
- precautious — using or displaying precaution: a precautious reply; a precautious person.
- precipitous — of the nature of or characterized by precipices: a precipitous wall of rock.
- preconquest — of or relating to the time before the conquest of one people, region, or country by another.
- prehistoric — of or relating to the time or a period prior to recorded history: The dinosaur is a prehistoric beast.
- 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.
- prepositive — (of a word) placed before another word to modify it or to show its relation to other parts of the sentence. In red book, red is a prepositive adjective. John's in John's book is a prepositive genitive.
- preselector — a preamplifier between the antenna and receiving circuit, used to improve reception.
- presolution — the act of solving a problem, question, etc.: The situation is approaching solution.
- 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.
- prestigious — indicative of or conferring prestige: the most prestigious address in town.
- prestissimo — (a musical direction) in the most rapid tempo.
- 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.
- previous to — before, prior to
- priest-hole — a secret chamber in certain houses in England, built as a hiding place for Roman Catholic priests when they were proscribed in the 16th and 17th centuries
- prioritised — to arrange or do in order of priority: learning to prioritize our assignments.
- pro-oestrus — proestrus.
- pro-western — lying toward or situated in the west: our company's western office.
- procrustean — pertaining to or suggestive of Procrustes.
- proctoscope — an instrument for visual examination of the interior of the rectum.
- profeminist — advocating social, political, legal, and economic rights for women equal to those of men.
- progestogen — progestin.
- progressist — a person favoring progress, as in politics; progressive.
- 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.
- prompt side — the part of the stage that in the U.S. is to the right and in Britain to the left as one faces the audience. Abbreviation: P.S.
- proof sheet — a printer's proof.