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11-letter words containing p, i, l, o, e, r

  • francophile — friendly to or having a strong liking for France or the French.
  • gerontophil — experiencing sexual attraction to old people
  • graptolites — Plural form of graptolite.
  • haloperidol — a major antipsychotic agent, C 21 H 23 ClFNO 2 , used in the management of schizophrenia, severe anxiety, and other behavioral disorders.
  • helicograph — an instrument for drawing helices.
  • helicopters — Plural form of helicopter.
  • helicospore — a coiled cylindrical fungal spore.
  • heliographs — Plural form of heliograph.
  • heliography — The scientific study of the sun.
  • heliosphere — the region around the sun over which the effect of the solar wind extends.
  • heliotropes — Plural form of heliotrope.
  • heliotropic — turning or growing toward the light.
  • heliotropin — piperonal.
  • hemeralopia — a condition of the eyes in which sight is normal in the night or in a dim light but is abnormally poor or wholly absent in the day or in a bright light.
  • hemeralopic — (medicine) Unable to see clearly in bright light; day-blind; suffering from hemeralopia.
  • hermoupolis — a port in Greece, capital of Cyclades department, on the E coast of Syros Island. Pop: (municipality): 13 496 (2001)
  • heterophile — Able to react immunologically with material from another species.
  • heteroploid — (biology) Having a chromosome number that is neither the haploid nor the diploid number normal in the species.
  • hieroglyphs — Plural form of hieroglyph.
  • highprofile — (rare) alternative spelling of high-profile.
  • holiday rep — A holiday rep is someone employed by a holiday company to help look after people when they are on holiday.
  • hop trefoil — a leguminous plant, Trifolium campestre, of N temperate grasslands, with globular yellow flower heads and trifoliate leaves
  • horripilate — to produce horripilation on.
  • hospitaller — a member of the religious and military order (Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
  • hyperbolise — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
  • hyperbolism — the use of hyperbole.
  • hyperbolist — One who uses hyperbole; an exaggerator.
  • hyperbolize — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
  • hyperboloid — a quadric surface having a finite center and some of its plane sections hyperbolas. Equation: x 2 / a 2 + y 2 / b 2 − z 2 / c 2 = 1.
  • hypercholia — abnormally large secretion of bile.
  • hypermotile — Abnormally or excessively motile.
  • imperiously — domineering in a haughty manner; dictatorial; overbearing: an imperious manner; an imperious person.
  • implementor — any article used in some activity, especially an instrument, tool, or utensil: agricultural implements.
  • import levy — a charge imposed on imported goods to raise the price to as least as high as the price would be in the country the goods are being imported to
  • importunely — (obsolete) In an importune manner.
  • incorporeal — not corporeal or material; insubstantial.
  • intercouple — two of the same sort considered together; pair.
  • intercupola — the space between an inner and an outer dome.
  • interlopers — Plural form of interloper.
  • interloping — to intrude into some region or field of trade without a proper license.
  • interpolate — to introduce (something additional or extraneous) between other things or parts; interject; interpose; intercalate.
  • iproclozide — A hydrazine drug previously used as an antidepressant, known to cause fulminant hepatitis.
  • isospectral — (mathematics) Having the same spectrum.
  • juniper oil — an oil obtained from the berries or wood of the common juniper, Juniperus communis.
  • killer poke — A recipe for inducing hardware damage on a machine via insertion of invalid values (see poke) into a memory-mapped control register; used especially of various fairly well-known tricks on bitty boxes without hardware memory management (such as the IBM PC and Commodore PET) that can overload analog electronics in the monitor. See also HCF.
  • kiloparsecs — Plural form of kiloparsec.
  • leopardskin — the skin of a leopard
  • lepidoptera — the order comprising the lepidopterous insects.
  • lepidoptery — the branch of zoology dealing with butterflies and moths.
  • lepidosiren — a lungfish, Lepidosiren paradoxa, of the Amazon, having an eel-shaped body.
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