11-letter words containing p, a, r, i, t
- private law — a branch of law dealing with the legal relationships of private individuals. Compare public law (def 2).
- privateness — the quality of being private
- privet hawk — a hawk moth, Sphinx ligustri, with a mauve-and-brown striped body: frequents privets
- pro-fascist — a person who believes in or sympathizes with fascism.
- proabortion — pro-choice.
- 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.
- proactivity — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- probability — the quality or fact of being probable.
- probational — the act of testing.
- probationer — a person undergoing probation or trial.
- problematic — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
- proclaimant — someone who proclaims
- procreation — to beget or generate (offspring).
- procreative — to beget or generate (offspring).
- procuration — the act of obtaining or getting; procurement.
- prodigality — the quality or fact of being prodigal; wasteful extravagance in spending.
- profanation — the act of profaning; desecration; defilement; debasement.
- profits tax — tax charged on the profits made by a company, individual, etc
- prognathism — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- prokaryotic — 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.
- proletarian — pertaining or belonging to the proletariat.
- proletariat — common people, working class
- proletarize — to proletarianize.
- proliferate — spread
- promilitary — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
- promotional — advancement in rank or position.
- 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.
- propagation — the act of propagating.
- propagative — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
- prophetical — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
- propitiator — to make favorably inclined; appease; conciliate.
- proprietary — belonging to a proprietor.
- prorogation — to discontinue a session of (the British Parliament or a similar body).
- 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.
- proteinuria — the presence of abnormally large amounts of protein in the urine, usually resulting from kidney disease but sometimes from fever, excessive exercise, or other abnormal condition.
- prothalamia — a song or poem written to celebrate a marriage.
- prothallium — Botany. the gametophyte of ferns and related plants.
- prothalloid — resembling a prothallus
- prothoracic — relating to an insect's prothorax
- protonation — the act of providing an atom, molecule, or ion with a proton
- protopathic — noting or pertaining to a general, nondiscriminating responsiveness to pain or temperature stimuli (opposed to epicritic).
- protractile — capable of being protracted, lengthened, or protruded.
- protraction — the act of protracting; prolongation; extension.
- protractive — to draw out or lengthen, especially in time; extend the duration of; prolong.