11-letter words containing p, o, t, e
- 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
- packet boat — a boat that travels a regular route, as along a coast or on a river, carrying passengers, freight, and mail
- packet soup — soup supplied in dried form in a packet
- paddle boat — small boat with pedals
- paedodontic — of or relating to paedodontics
- 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).
- palaeontol. — palaeontology
- palaeotypic — characterized by palaeotype
- paleoarctic — palearctic.
- paleobotany — the branch of paleontology dealing with fossil plants.
- paleocortex — the olfactory region of the brain.
- paleolithic — (sometimes lowercase) Anthropology. of, relating to, or characteristic of the cultures of the late Pliocene and the Pleistocene epochs, or early phase of the Stone Age, which appeared first in Africa and are marked by the steady development of stone tools and later antler and bone artifacts, engravings on bone and stone, sculpted figures, and paintings and engravings on the walls of caves and rock-shelters: usually divided into three periods (Lower Paleolithic, c2,000,000–c200,000 b.c., Middle Paleolithic, c150,000–c40,000 b.c., Upper Paleolithic, c40,000–c10,000 b.c.)
- 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.
- panel point — a joint between two or more members of a truss.
- pantalooned — wearing pantaloons
- pantheology — a branch of theology embracing all gods and all religions
- pantheonize — to place, especially to bury, in a pantheon: The author will be pantheonized following the funeral mass.
- pantothenic — denoting an acid which is a growth-promoting vitamin of vitamin B complex
- 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.
- pas de cote — a two-track.
- passiontide — the two-week period from Passion Sunday to Holy Saturday.
- pastoralize — to make pastoral or rural.
- pate a chou — French Cookery. cream puff paste.
- 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.
- pathologies — the science or the study of the origin, nature, and course of diseases.
- pathologize — to represent (something) as a disease
- 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.
- peach stone — the stone in the centre of the fruit the peach
- 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.
- pedal point — a sustained bass note, over which the other parts move bringing about changing harmonies
- pedantocrat — a pedantic ruler
- pedetentous — progressing gradually; proceeding cautiously
- pedobaptism — the baptism of infants.
- pedobaptist — a person who advocates or practices pedobaptism.
- pedodontics — the branch of dentistry dealing with the care and treatment of children's teeth.