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11-letter words containing p, o, l, n

  • pixellation — in computer graphics and digital photography, to cause (an image) to break up into pixels, as by overenlarging the image: When enlarging a photograph, first increase the resolution to avoid pixelating it.
  • plain flour — ground wheat with no raising agent
  • plainstones — the pavement or a paved area in a town or city
  • planetology — the branch of astronomy that deals with the physical features of the planets.
  • plank floor — a floor made from sawed, straight-grained timber.
  • planoconvex — pertaining to or noting a lens that is plane on one side and convex on the other.
  • planogamete — a motile gamete.
  • planography — the art or technique of printing from a flat surface directly or by offset.
  • plant louse — aphid.
  • 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.
  • plantocracy — government by plantation owners.
  • plantswoman — a nurserywoman.
  • planuliform — resembling a planula
  • plasmalogen — any of the class of phosphatides that contain an aldehyde of a fatty acid, found in heart and skeletal muscle, the brain, the liver, and in eggs.
  • plasminogen — the blood substance that when activated forms plasmin.
  • platforming — a process for reforming petroleum using a platinum catalyst
  • platinotype — a process of printing positives in which a platinum salt is used, rather than the usual silver salts, in order to make a more permanent print.
  • play around — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • playstation — (games, hardware)   The leading family of games consoles, from Sony Corporation consisting of the original Playstation (PS1) and the Playstation 2 (PS2). The basic Playstations consist of a small box containing the processor and a DVD reader, with video outputs to connect to a TV, sockets for two game controllers, and a socket for one or two memory cards. The PS2 also has USB sockets. The PS2 can run PS1 software because the PS2's I/O processor is the same as the PS1's CPU.
  • plecopteran — Also, plecopterous. belonging or pertaining to the insect order Plecoptera, comprising the stoneflies.
  • plectognath — belonging to the Plectognathi, a group or order of fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick, often spiny, scaleless skin, and including the filefish, globefish, puffer, and triggerfish.
  • pleistocene — noting or pertaining to the epoch forming the earlier half of the Quaternary Period, beginning about two million years ago and ending 10,000 years ago, characterized by widespread glacial ice and the advent of modern humans.
  • plenipotent — invested with or possessing full power.
  • pleurodynia — pain in the chest or side.
  • plott hound — an American hound having a brindled coat, used especially in hunting bears and wild boars.
  • plough into — If something, for example a car, ploughs into something else, it goes out of control and crashes violently into it.
  • plumb joint — (in sheet metal work) a soldered lap joint.
  • plunge pool — the water in a plunge basin.
  • pluripotent — (of a cell) capable of developing into any type of cell or tissue except those that form a placenta or embryo: pluripotent stem cells.
  • plutonomist — a person who studies or has expertise in plutonomy
  • podophyllin — a resin, occurring as a light brown to greenish amorphous powder, obtained from podophyllum, and used in medicine chiefly as a cathartic and, locally, in the treatment of genital warts.
  • point-blank — aimed or fired straight at the mark especially from close range; direct.
  • pointillism — a theory and technique developed by the neo-impressionists, based on the principle that juxtaposed dots of pure color, as blue and yellow, are optically mixed into the resulting hue, as green, by the viewer.
  • poison pill — a pellet of a quick-acting poison, as cyanide, for a spy to carry in order to commit suicide when faced with capture or torture.
  • polar angle — Usually, polar coordinates. one of two coordinates used to locate a point in a plane by the length of its radius vector and the angle this vector makes with the polar axis (polar angle)
  • polar front — Meteorology. the variable frontal zone of middle latitudes separating air masses of polar and tropical origin.
  • policewoman — a female member of a police force or body.
  • policy loan — a loan made by a life-insurance company to a policyholder with the cash value of the policy serving as security.
  • policy unit — a body of political advisors to the British Prime Minister
  • policy wonk — a person who studies or makes political policies, esp one who has a strong enthusiasm for technical details
  • policyowner — policyholder.
  • politicking — activity undertaken for political reasons or ends, as campaigning for votes before an election, making speeches, etc., or otherwise promoting oneself or one's policies.
  • poll rating — a measurement of a politician's popularity among the electorate, obtained by canvassing a representative sample of people
  • pollen tube — the protoplasmic tube that is extruded from a germinating pollen grain and grows toward the ovule.
  • pollination — the transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma.
  • polling day — date of election voting
  • polonnaruwa — a town in E central Sri Lanka: Buddhist ruins.
  • poltroonery — a wretched coward; craven.
  • polyactinal — possessing many rays
  • polyandrist — a woman who practices or favors polyandry.
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