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11-letter words containing p, i, e, c, r, a

  • presbycusia — impaired hearing due to old age.
  • presynaptic — being or occurring on the transmitting end of a discharge across a synapse.
  • prevacation — a period of suspension of work, study, or other activity, usually used for rest, recreation, or travel; recess or holiday: Schoolchildren are on vacation now.
  • prevaricate — to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie.
  • price break — a reduction in price, esp for bulk purchase
  • price range — the highest and lowest price of a commodity, security, etc., over a given period of time.
  • prick-eared — British. Informal. (of a man) having the hair cut short. Archaic. following or sympathetic to the Puritans or Roundheads. Archaic. priggish.
  • prick-tease — a woman who is sexually provocative but refuses to engage in sexual activity
  • prickleback — any of several blennioid fishes of the family Stichaeidae, usually inhabiting cold waters, having spiny rays in the dorsal fin.
  • priestcraft — the training, knowledge, and abilities necessary to a priest.
  • prima facie — at first appearance; at first view, before investigation.
  • pro-vaccine — any preparation used as a preventive inoculation to confer immunity against a specific disease, usually employing an innocuous form of the disease agent, as killed or weakened bacteria or viruses, to stimulate antibody production.
  • 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.
  • problematic — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
  • procephalic — of or relating to the head.
  • procreation — to beget or generate (offspring).
  • procreative — to beget or generate (offspring).
  • prophetical — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
  • prosaicness — commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
  • protractile — capable of being protracted, lengthened, or protruded.
  • protractive — to draw out or lengthen, especially in time; extend the duration of; prolong.
  • provocative — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
  • rapid chess — a game of chess played within a fixed amount of time, usually 30 minutes per player for all moves.
  • recall slip — a printed piece of paper sent by library staff to a borrower's home address to remind them that a book is overdue
  • recarpeting — a heavy fabric, commonly of wool or nylon, for covering floors.
  • reciprocant — a differential invariant
  • reciprocate — to give, feel, etc., in return.
  • reduplicate — to double; repeat.
  • renographic — of or pertaining to renography, using or produced by a renogram
  • replication — a reply; answer.
  • replicative — characterized by or capable of replication, especially of an experiment.
  • res publica — the state, republic, or commonwealth
  • riesz space — a topological space in which sets containing one point are closed.
  • ropedancing — the act of dancing on a rope
  • scapigerous — having a scape or leafless stalk
  • scatter pin — a woman's small ornamental pin, usually worn with other similar pins on a dress, suit jacket, etc.
  • scorpaenoid — resembling or related to the family Scorpaenidae.
  • scrappiness — made up of scraps or of odds and ends; fragmentary; disconnected.
  • serigraphic — of or pertaining to serigraphy
  • service cap — a saucer-shaped uniform cap with a visor, standard in the U.S. Army and Air Force.
  • share price — cost of financial stocks
  • skip tracer — an investigator whose job is to locate missing persons, especially debtors.
  • spacefaring — space travel
  • specializer — a person who specializes in something
  • spectrality — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
  • specularity — the state of resembling a mirror
  • spermatoxic — (of a substance) toxic to spermatozoa.
  • spermicidal — that kills sperm
  • spider crab — any of various crabs of the family Majidae, having long, slender legs and a comparatively small, triangular body.
  • spirit cave — an archaeological site in Thailand that has produced evidence of very early plant domestication in Southeast Asia, dated c7000 b.c.
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