11-letter words containing p, a, r, t, i, l
- predictably — able to be foretold or declared in advance: New technology allows predictable weather forecasting.
- prelateship — the rank of a prelate
- prelibation — a foretaste.
- preliterary — occurring before the existence of literature
- preliterate — lacking a written language; nonliterate: a preliterate culture.
- prematerial — the substance or substances of which a thing is made or composed: Stone is a durable material.
- preterminal — situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
- prevailment — the action of prevailing
- primatology — the branch of zoology dealing with the primates.
- private law — a branch of law dealing with the legal relationships of private individuals. Compare public law (def 2).
- 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.
- probability — the quality or fact of being probable.
- probational — the act of testing.
- problematic — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
- proclaimant — someone who proclaims
- prodigality — the quality or fact of being prodigal; wasteful extravagance in spending.
- 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.
- prophetical — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
- prothalamia — a song or poem written to celebrate a marriage.
- prothallium — Botany. the gametophyte of ferns and related plants.
- prothalloid — resembling a prothallus
- protractile — capable of being protracted, lengthened, or protruded.
- proximately — next; nearest; immediately before or after in order, place, occurrence, etc.
- pulveration — the reduction of something to powder
- pupillarity — the period between birth and puberty, or until attaining majority.
- purgatorial — removing or purging sin; expiatory: purgatorial rites.
- puritanical — very strict in moral or religious matters, often excessively so; rigidly austere.
- pyroclastic — composed chiefly of fragments of volcanic origin, as agglomerate, tuff, and certain other rocks; volcaniclastic.
- realpolitik — political realism or practical politics, especially policy based on power rather than on ideals.
- reduplicate — to double; repeat.
- repatriable — to bring or send back (a person, especially a prisoner of war, a refugee, etc.) to his or her country or land of citizenship.
- repertorial — a type of theatrical presentation in which a company presents several works regularly or in alternate sequence in one season.
- replication — a reply; answer.
- replicative — characterized by or capable of replication, especially of an experiment.
- reportorial — of or relating to a reporter.
- reptilianly — in the manner of a reptilian
- retail park — A retail park is a large specially built area, usually at the edge of a town or city, where there are a lot of large shops and sometimes other facilities such as cinemas and restaurants.
- retail shop — a shop which sells goods to individual customers
- retrophilia — a strong liking for things from the past
- rhinoplasty — plastic surgery of the nose.
- ripple-tank — a shallow container of water in which waves are produced by vibrating an object in the water, used to observe or demonstrate wave phenomena.
- rupes altai — a mountain range in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 315 miles (507 km) long.
- sapropelite — a foul-smelling mud