11-letter words containing p, o, r, l
- blood group — Someone's blood group is the type of blood that they have in their body. There are four main types: A, B, AB, and O.
- blood purge — the mass execution, especially by a government, of persons considered guilty of treason or sedition.
- blood sport — Blood sports are sports such as hunting in which animals are killed.
- bloodsprent — spattered or stained with blood
- boilerplate — A boilerplate is a basic written contract that can be used to make many different kinds of contracts.
- bridal shop — a shop that specializes in selling bridal wear
- british lop — a breed of large white pig with large drooping ears, originating from Wales, Cumberland, and Ulster
- broiler pan — a pan for broiling food
- broken play — an improvised offensive play that results when the originally planned play has failed to be executed properly.
- bryophyllum — a genus of plants of the family Crassulaceae with the ability to produce plantlets on their leaves or floral stems
- bulletproof — Something that is bulletproof is made of a strong material that bullets cannot pass through.
- bumper pool — a pool game played on a small, often octagonally shaped table with two pockets, having strategically placed cushioned pegs on the playing surface, usually necessitating bank shots to sink balls.
- bush parole — an escape from prison.
- butorphanol — a narcotic analgesic, C 21 H 29 NO 2 , administered by injection to treat moderate to severe pain.
- butyl group — any of four univalent isomeric groups having the formula C 4 H 9 –.
- calf roping — a timed rodeo event in which a mounted rider chases and lassos a calf, dismounts, and throws the calf to the ground, tying three of the animal's legs with a short length of rope.
- calyptrogen — a layer of rapidly dividing cells at the tip of a plant root, from which the root cap is formed. It occurs in grasses and many other plants
- camel corps — a brigade of infantry mounted on camels used by the British army in various campaigns
- camelopards — Plural form of camelopard.
- campesterol — (organic compound) A phytosterol, found in many vegetable oils, related to sitosterol.
- camphor oil — a colorless liquid obtained from the wood of the camphor tree by distillation and separation from the solid camphor, used in varnish, soaps, and shoe polish, and in medicine chiefly as a rubefacient.
- candlepower — the luminous intensity of a source of light in a given direction: now expressed in candelas but formerly in terms of the international candle
- cape collar — a soft, wide, circular collar that covers the shoulders and the upper arms like a cape.
- capilliform — Having the form of a hair.
- caprolactam — a white crystalline cyclic imine used in the manufacture of nylon. Formula: C5H10NHCO
- cardiolipin — a lipid purified from bovine heart and used as an antigen for reacting with reagin, the Wassermann antibody, in the Wassermann diagnostic test for syphilis.
- cargo plane — a plane carrying cargo
- carpet plot — the graphed values of a function of more than one variable, read from an ordinate at points located by the intersection of curves of constant values of each of the variables
- cartophilic — relating to cartophily
- cattle prod — A cattle prod is an object shaped like a long stick. Farmers make cattle move in a particular direction by pushing the cattle prod against the bodies of the animals.
- cephalogram — An X-ray of the craniofacial area.
- ceroplastic — relating to wax modelling
- chairpeople — a person who presides over a meeting, committee, board, etc.
- child-proof — resistant to being opened, tampered with, or operated by a child: a childproof medicine bottle.
- chlorophyll — Chlorophyll is any, or all, of a group of green pigments that are found in plants and other organisms, which enables them to use the energy from sunlight.
- chlorophyte — A lower plant of the division Chlorophyta, which comprises the green algae.
- chloroplast — a plastid containing chlorophyll and other pigments, occurring in plants and algae that carry out photosynthesis
- chloroprene — a colourless liquid derivative of butadiene that is used in making neoprene rubbers; 2-chloro-1,2-butadiene. Formula: CH2:CHCCl:CH2
- chlorphenol — chlorophenol.
- chlorpicrin — chloropicrin
- chromeplate — to plate with chromium.
- chromophile — Also, chromophilic, chromophilous [kroh-mof-uh-luh s] /kroʊˈmɒf ə ləs/ (Show IPA), chromatophilic, chromatophilous. staining readily.
- chromoplasm — chromatin.
- chromoplast — a coloured plastid in a plant cell, esp one containing carotenoids
- ciclosporin — a drug extracted from a fungus and used after organ transplantation to suppress the body's immune mechanisms, and so prevent rejection of an organ
- circumpolar — (of a star or constellation) visible above the horizon at all times at a specified locality on the earth's surface
- clapboarded — Simple past tense and past participle of clapboard.
- cleethorpes — a resort in E England, in North East Lincolnshire unitary authority, Lincolnshire. Pop: 31 853 (2001)
- cleistocarp — cleistothecium.
- cleptocracy — Alternative form of kleptocracy.