11-letter words containing p, o, t, i
- overexploit — to use (natural resources etc) excessively, causing a reduction
- overpicture — to describe or portray with exaggeration
- overtopping — to rise over or above the top of: a skyscraper that overtops all the other buildings.
- oviposition — to deposit or lay eggs, especially by means of an ovipositor.
- oxtail soup — soup made using the skinned tail of an ox
- oyster pink — a delicate pinkish-white colour, sometimes with a greyish tinge
- pacificator — to pacify.
- paedodontic — of or relating to paedodontics
- paint horse — paint (def 6).
- palaeotypic — characterized by palaeotype
- paleoarctic — palearctic.
- 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.)
- palpitation — the act of palpitating.
- panel point — a joint between two or more members of a truss.
- panromantic — noting or relating to a person who is romantically attracted to people of all sexual orientations and gender identities: The singer came out as queer and panromantic at age 17.
- pantheonize — to place, especially to bury, in a pantheon: The author will be pantheonized following the funeral mass.
- pantisocrat — someone who believes, or takes part, in pantisocracy
- pantologist — a systematic view of all human knowledge.
- pantomiming — the art or technique of conveying emotions, actions, feelings, etc., by gestures without speech.
- pantomimist — a person who acts in pantomime.
- pantonality — twelve-tone technique.
- pantoscopic — showing a wide-angled view
- pantothenic — denoting an acid which is a growth-promoting vitamin of vitamin B complex
- pantropical — living or growing throughout the tropics.
- paracrostic — a poem in which the initial letters of each line replicate the first line
- paramastoid — of or relating to the part of the skull next to the mastoid process
- parasitosis — parasitism (def 3).
- parathyroid — situated near the thyroid gland.
- paratrophic — obtaining nourishment from living organic matter; parasitic.
- paratyphoid — Also called paratyphoid fever. an infectious disease, similar in some of its symptoms to typhoid fever but usually milder, caused by any of several bacilli of the genus Salmonella other than S. typhi.
- parfocality — the quality of being parfocal
- 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.
- passion pit — a drive-in movie theater.
- passiontide — the two-week period from Passion Sunday to Holy Saturday.
- passivation — the process of passivating a material
- 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.
- pathoformic — Pathology. pertaining to the beginning of a disease, especially to symptoms that occur in the preliminary stages of mental disease.
- pathologies — the science or the study of the origin, nature, and course of diseases.
- pathologist — the science or the study of the origin, nature, and course of diseases.
- pathologize — to represent (something) as a disease
- pathophobia — an irrational fear of disease
- patio doors — doors to an area adjoining a house, esp one that is paved and used for outdoor activities