11-letter words containing p, o, l, n
- oenophilist — a person who enjoys wines, usually as a connoisseur.
- old persian — an ancient West Iranian language attested by cuneiform inscriptions. Abbreviation: OPers.
- old spanish — the Spanish language of the 12th to the 16th centuries. Abbreviation: OSp.
- on approval — the act of approving; approbation.
- opalescence — exhibiting a play of colors like that of the opal.
- open letter — a letter, often of protest or criticism, addressed to a specific person, but intended to be brought to public attention.
- open policy — a continuous policy covering goods of a class subject to changes in volume, usually requiring periodic reports of values.
- open prolog — (Prolog, language) Prolog for the Macintosh by Michael Brady <[email protected]>.
- openability — The quality of being openable.
- operational — able to function or be used; functional: How soon will the new factory be operational?
- opportunely — appropriate, favorable, or suitable: an opportune phrase for the occasion.
- optionality — left to one's choice; not required or mandatory: Formal dress is optional.
- orange peel — outer skin of an orange
- orland park — a town in NE Illinois.
- outerplanar — (mathematics) Describing a graph having a planar embedding such that the vertices lie on a circle and the edges lie inside that circle.
- outline map — a map which only provides very basic information so that more details can be added
- outsleeping — Present participle of outsleep.
- outspokenly — In an outspoken manner.
- overexplain — to explain in too much detail
- overlapping — to lap over (something else or each other); extend over and cover a part of; imbricate.
- overplanned — resulting from overplanning
- palaeontol. — palaeontology
- paleobotany — the branch of paleontology dealing with fossil plants.
- palindromic — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
- palpitation — the act of palpitating.
- panel house — a brothel having rooms with secret entrances, as sliding panels, for admitting panel thieves.
- panel point — a joint between two or more members of a truss.
- panglossian — characterized by or given to extreme optimism, especially in the face of unrelieved hardship or adversity.
- pantalooned — wearing pantaloons
- pantheology — a branch of theology embracing all gods and all religions
- pantologist — a systematic view of all human knowledge.
- pantonality — twelve-tone technique.
- pantropical — living or growing throughout the tropics.
- paphlagonia — an ancient country and Roman province in N Asia Minor, on the S coast of the Black Sea.
- parabolanus — a member of an early Christian brotherhood in Alexandria and Constantinople who helped the sick in the times of plague
- paralimnion — the region of a lake floor between the shoreline or water's edge and the zone of rooted vegetation
- paramountly — chief in importance or impact; supreme; preeminent: a point of paramount significance.
- parasol ant — leaf-cutting ant.
- parking lot — an area, usually divided into individual spaces, intended for parking motor vehicles.
- paronychial — of or relating to paronychia
- passionless — not feeling or moved by passion; cold or unemotional; calm or detached.
- patrimonial — an estate inherited from one's father or ancestors.
- patroclinic — inherited from the father; more like the father than the mother
- patrolwoman — a policewoman who is assigned to patrol a specific district, route, etc.
- payday loan — A payday loan is a small personal cash loan at a very high interest rate, secured by the borrower's next paycheck.
- pearl danio — a slender iridescent tropical cyprinid, Brachydanio albolineatus, from parts of southeast Asia: a popular freshwater aquarium fish.
- pearl onion — a small white onion, often pickled and used as an appetizer or garnish.
- pedal piano — a piano having a pedal keyboard of 29 notes and connected with an action placed at the back where a special soundboard, covered with 29 strings, is built into the case.
- pedal point — a sustained bass note, over which the other parts move bringing about changing harmonies
- pelargonium — any plant of the genus Pelargonium, the cultivated species of which are usually called geranium. Compare geranium (def 2).