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

  • 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
  • parfocality — the quality of being parfocal
  • park forest — a city in NE Illinois.
  • parking lot — an area, usually divided into individual spaces, intended for parking motor vehicles.
  • parodontium — periodontium.
  • parotiditis — inflammation of a parotid.
  • parrot-fish — any of various chiefly tropical marine fishes, especially of the family Scaridae: so called because of their brilliant coloring and the shape of their jaws.
  • partitioner — a division into or distribution in portions or shares.
  • parturition — the process of bringing forth young.
  • passthrough — a windowlike opening, as one for passing food or dishes between a kitchen and a dining area.
  • pastoralism — the practice of herding as the primary economic activity of a society.
  • pastoralist — a grazier or land-holder raising sheep, cattle, etc, on a large scale
  • 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.
  • pathoformic — Pathology. pertaining to the beginning of a disease, especially to symptoms that occur in the preliminary stages of mental disease.
  • pathography — a biography that focuses on the negative elements of its subject.
  • patio doors — doors to an area adjoining a house, esp one that is paved and used for outdoor activities
  • patrimonial — an estate inherited from one's father or ancestors.
  • patroclinic — inherited from the father; more like the father than the mother
  • patrol boat — a boat designed to patrol a coastal area, etc for security, observation and defence
  • patrologist — a student of patrology.
  • patrolwoman — a policewoman who is assigned to patrol a specific district, route, etc.
  • patron-ship — a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
  • patronising — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
  • patronizing — displaying or indicative of an offensively condescending manner: a patronizing greeting, accompanied by a gentle pat on the pack.
  • patroonship — a person who held an estate in land with certain manorial privileges granted under the old Dutch governments of New York and New Jersey.
  • patter song — a comic song depending for its humorous effect on rapid enunciation of the words, occurring most commonly in comic opera and operetta.
  • payroll tax — a tax levied against the amount of wages and salaries paid workers.
  • 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
  • penteconter — (in ancient Greece) a commander of fifty men
  • pentium pro — (processor)   (Known as "P6" during development) Intel's successor to the Pentium processor, in development Jan 1995, generally available 1995-11-01. The P6 has an internal RISC architecture with a CISC-RISC translator, 3-way superscalar execution, and out-of order execution (or "speculative execution", which Intel calls "Dynamic Execution"). It also features branch prediction and register renaming, and is superpipelined (14 stages). The P6 is made as a two-chip assembly: the first chip is the CPU and 16 kilobyte first-level cache (5.5 million transistors) and the other is a 256 (or 512) kilobyte second-level cache (15 million transistors). The first version has a clock rate of 133 Mhz and consumes about 20W of power. It is about twice as fast as the 100 MHz Pentium. The original 0.35 micron versions of the Pentium Pro released on 1995-11-01 run at 150 and 166 Mhz for desktop machines and up to 200 Mhz for servers. Heat disspation is about 20 Watts. The Pentium Pro is optimised for 32-bit software and runs 16-bit software slower than the original Pentium. The successor was the Pentium II.
  • pepper spot — a disease of clover, characterized by numerous black specks on the leaves, caused by a fungus, Pseudoplea trifolii.
  • perceptions — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
  • perchlorate — a salt or ester of perchloric acid, as potassium perchlorate, KClO 4 .
  • percolation — the act or state of percolating or of being percolated.
  • perduration — the act of lasting forever or enduring continually; the capacity to endure indefinitely
  • perennation — the survival of a plant through the winter or dry season
  • perestroika — Russian. the program of economic and political reform in the Soviet Union initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986.
  • perforation — a hole, or one of a series of holes, bored or punched through something, as those between individual postage stamps of a sheet to facilitate separation.
  • perforative — that perforates readily
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