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

  • orthopedist — (used with a singular verb) the medical specialty concerned with correction of deformities or functional impairments of the skeletal system, especially the extremities and the spine, and associated structures, as muscles and ligaments.
  • orthopnoeic — difficult or painful breathing except in an erect sitting or standing position.
  • orthopteran — orthopterous.
  • orthopteron — an orthopterous insect.
  • osteography — The scientific description of bones; osteology.
  • ostpreussen — a former province in NE Germany: an enclave separated from Germany by the Polish Corridor; now divided between Poland and the Russian Federation. 14,283 sq. mi. (36,993 sq. km). Capital: Königsberg.
  • ostreophage — someone who loves or eats oysters
  • ostreophagy — the consumption of oysters
  • out-process — to end a military tour of duty, accompanied by necessary paperwork: All enlisted soldiers out-process as a class.
  • outer space — space beyond the atmosphere of the earth.
  • outerplanar — (mathematics) Describing a graph having a planar embedding such that the vertices lie on a circle and the edges lie inside that circle.
  • outperforms — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outperform.
  • outstripped — Simple past tense and past participle of outstrip.
  • over-expect — to look forward to; regard as likely to happen; anticipate the occurrence or the coming of: I expect to read it. I expect him later. She expects that they will come.
  • overexploit — to use (natural resources etc) excessively, causing a reduction
  • overoperate — to operate on (a patient) unnecessarily
  • overpayment — to pay more than (an amount due): I received a credit after overpaying the bill.
  • overpicture — to describe or portray with exaggeration
  • overplotted — relating to an excessively elaborate plot
  • overpromote — to promote to a level that cannot be fulfilled
  • overprotect — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
  • overtopping — to rise over or above the top of: a skyscraper that overtops all the other buildings.
  • oyster pink — a delicate pinkish-white colour, sometimes with a greyish tinge
  • paedotrophy — the art of raising children
  • pagoda tree — a Chinese leguminous tree, Sophora japonica, with ornamental white flowers and dark green foliage
  • paint horse — paint (def 6).
  • paleoarctic — palearctic.
  • paleocortex — the olfactory region of the brain.
  • panchreston — a proposed explanation intended to address a complex problem by trying to account for all possible contingencies but typically proving to be too broadly conceived and therefore oversimplified to be of any practical use.
  • paper route — A paper route is the same as a paper round.
  • paper towel — absorbent kitchen tissue
  • paracetamol — painkilling drug
  • paratrooper — a member of a military infantry unit trained to attack or land in combat areas by parachuting from airplanes.
  • parcel post — (in the U.S. Postal Service) nonpreferential mail consisting of packages and parcels, weighing one pound or more sent at fourth-class rates. Compare fourth class.
  • parent body — an organization's parent body is the organization that created it and usually still controls it
  • park forest — a city in NE Illinois.
  • partitioner — a division into or distribution in portions or shares.
  • pastoralize — to make pastoral or rural.
  • patelliform — having the form of a patella; shaped like a saucer, kneecap, or limpet shell.
  • paternoster — a molding having the form of a row of pearls.
  • patter song — a comic song depending for its humorous effect on rapid enunciation of the words, occurring most commonly in comic opera and operetta.
  • pct theorem — the proposition that all the laws of physics are unchanged by the combined operations of charge conjugation (C), space inversion (P), and time reversal (T).
  • pea-shooter — a tube through which dried peas, beans, or small pellets are blown, used as a toy.
  • peanut worm — any small, unsegmented, marine worm of the phylum Sipuncula, that when disturbed retracts its anterior portion into the body, giving the appearance of a peanut seed.
  • pedantocrat — a pedantic ruler
  • pelotherapy — the application of mud to the body for therapeutic purposes
  • penetration — the act or power of penetrating.
  • pentahedron — a solid figure having five faces.
  • pentamerous — consisting of or divided into five parts.
  • pentandrous — of or pertaining to the order of plants Pentandria, characterized by having five stamens
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