11-letter words containing p, a, r, t, y, o
- poetry slam — a violent and noisy closing, dashing, or impact.
- polyandrist — a woman who practices or favors polyandry.
- polycrystal — an object composed of randomly oriented crystals, formed by rapid solidification
- polysorbate — any of a class of emulsifying and dispersing agents used in various foods and pharmaceutical preparations.
- porphyratin — any of various complex compounds formed of metals and porphyrins
- portability — the state or quality of being portable.
- postprimary — of or relating to education after primary school
- postulatory — of or relating to a postulate or assumption
- potty-chair — a small chair with an open seat over a removable pot, for use by a child during toilet training.
- potty-train — to teach a small child to use a potty or toilet
- poultry-man — a person who raises domestic fowls, especially chickens, to sell as meat; a chicken farmer.
- pourability — to send (a liquid, fluid, or anything in loose particles) flowing or falling, as from one container to another, or into, over, or on something: to pour a glass of milk; to pour water on a plant.
- predicatory — of or relating to preaching.
- premonetary — of or relating to the coinage or currency of a country.
- preparatory — serving or designed to prepare: preparatory arrangements.
- primatology — the branch of zoology dealing with the primates.
- 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.
- procuratory — Roman History. any of various imperial officials with fiscal or administrative powers.
- prodigality — the quality or fact of being prodigal; wasteful extravagance in spending.
- profanatory — tending to desecrate; profaning.
- 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.
- 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.
- promilitary — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
- propagatory — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
- proprietary — belonging to a proprietor.
- pros. atty. — prosecuting attorney
- protanomaly — a defect of vision characterized by a diminished response of the retina to red.
- protocolary — the customs and regulations dealing with diplomatic formality, precedence, and etiquette.
- protogalaxy — the large concentration of gas and dust from which a galaxy is formed.
- protomartyr — the first Christian martyr, Saint Stephen.
- protonotary — prothonotary.
- provocatory — tending to provoke
- proximately — next; nearest; immediately before or after in order, place, occurrence, etc.
- pterodactyl — any of a number of genera of flying reptiles of the extinct order Pterosauria, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a highly reduced tail and teeth and a birdlike beak.
- ptochocracy — government by the poor
- pyroclastic — composed chiefly of fragments of volcanic origin, as agglomerate, tuff, and certain other rocks; volcaniclastic.
- pyrogallate — a salt or ether of pyrogallol.
- pyrosulfate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid.
- pythagorean — of or relating to Pythagoras, to his school, or to his doctrines.
- radiopacity — opaque to radiation; visible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy (opposed to radiotransparent).
- rapturously — full of, feeling, or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight.
- repudiatory — the act of repudiating.
- respiratory — pertaining to or serving for respiration: respiratory disease.
- retinopathy — any diseased condition of the retina, especially one that is noninflammatory.
- rhinoplasty — plastic surgery of the nose.
- rosy pastor — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- rotary plow — a tined auger mounted on a horizontal power-driven shaft, for pulverizing unplowed soil preparatory to planting.
- rotary pump — a pump for transferring water or other fluids by the rotating action of its component parts, as by the meshing of vanes or screws.