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11-letter words containing p, e, a, r, t

  • pirate copy — an illicitly reproduced copy of a DVD, video, book, game, etc
  • pirate ship — vessel sailed by sea robbers
  • pitta bread — a flat rounded slightly leavened bread, originally from the Middle East, with a hollow inside like a pocket, which can be filled with food
  • plain tripe — the fatty, inner lining of the first stomach (the rumen) of a steer, calf, hog, or sheep, having a bland taste and used as a food, especially in the preparation of such dishes as haggis, head cheese, etc.
  • plane chart — a chart used in plane sailing, in which the lines of latitude and longitude are straight and parallel
  • planer tree — a small tree, Planera aquatica, of the elm family, growing in moist ground in the southern U.S., bearing a small, ovoid, nutlike fruit and yielding a compact light-brown wood.
  • planet gear — any of the gears in an epicyclic train surrounding and engaging with the sun gear.
  • planetarian — a staff member at a planetarium.
  • planetarium — an apparatus or model representing the planetary system.
  • planimetric — the measurement of plane areas.
  • planthopper — any member of a large and varied group of homopterous insects that are related to the leafhoppers and the spittlebugs but rarely damage cultivated plants.
  • plantigrade — walking on the whole sole of the foot, as humans, and bears.
  • plasterwork — finish or ornamental work done in plaster.
  • plasticizer — any of a group of substances that are used in plastics or other materials to impart viscosity, flexibility, softness, or other properties to the finished product.
  • plasticware — knives, forks, spoons, cups, etc., made of plastic: a picnic hamper with plasticware for six.
  • plastiqueur — a person, especially a terrorist, who makes, places, or detonates plastic bombs.
  • plastometer — an instrument for measuring the plasticity of a substance.
  • plate armor — armor made of thin, flat, shaped pieces of wrought iron or steel.
  • plate proof — proof taken from a plate ready for printing.
  • plateholder — a lightproof container for a photographic plate, loaded into the camera with the plate and having a slide that is removed before exposing.
  • plateresque — noting or pertaining to a 16th-century style of Spanish architecture characterized by profuse applications of delicate low-relief Renaissance ornament to isolated parts of building exteriors.
  • platyrrhine — Anthropology. having a broad, flat-bridged nose.
  • play-centre — a regular meeting of small children arranged by their parents or a welfare agency to give them an opportunity of supervised creative play
  • plecopteran — Also, plecopterous. belonging or pertaining to the insect order Plecoptera, comprising the stoneflies.
  • pocket park — a very small park or outdoor area for public leisure, especially an urban plaza or courtyard with benches and fountains.
  • pococurante — a careless or indifferent person.
  • poetry slam — a violent and noisy closing, dashing, or impact.
  • point after — a score given for a successful kick between the goalposts and above the crossbar, following a touchdown
  • polarimeter — an instrument for measuring the amount of light received from a given source as a function of its state of polarization.
  • poles apart — each of the extremities of the axis of the earth or of any spherical body.
  • politbureau — (often lowercase) the executive committee and chief policymaking body of a Communist Party.
  • polysorbate — any of a class of emulsifying and dispersing agents used in various foods and pharmaceutical preparations.
  • pomegranate — a chambered, many-seeded, globose fruit, having a tough, usually red rind and surmounted by a crown of calyx lobes, the edible portion consisting of pleasantly acid flesh developed from the outer seed coat.
  • 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
  • ponderation — a weight
  • porkpie hat — a hat with a round flat crown and a brim that can be turned up or down
  • port orange — a city in E Florida.
  • portal vein — the large vein conveying blood to the liver from the veins of the stomach, intestine, spleen, and pancreas.
  • portmanteau — a case or bag to carry clothing in while traveling, especially a leather trunk or suitcase that opens into two halves.
  • portraiture — the art or an instance of making portraits.
  • postharvest — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
  • potato race — a novelty race in which each contestant must move a number of potatoes from one place to another, usually in a spoon, carrying one potato at a time.
  • potentiator — to cause to be potent; make powerful.
  • potter wasp — any of several mason wasps, especially of the genus Eumenes, that construct a juglike nest of mud.
  • potwalloper — (in some boroughs before the Reform Bill of 1832) a man who qualified as a householder, and therefore a voter, by virtue of ownership of his own fireplace at which to boil pots.
  • pouched rat — pocket gopher.
  • power plant — a plant, including engines, dynamos, etc., and the building or buildings necessary for the generation of power, as electric or nuclear power.
  • power train — a train of gears and shafting transmitting power from an engine, motor, etc., to a mechanism being driven.
  • powerboater — a powerboat owner or operator.
  • practicable — capable of being done, effected, or put into practice, with the available means; feasible: a practicable solution.
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