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11-letter words containing p, o, w, e, r

  • police work — the everyday duties of police officers, esp the investigation of criminal activities
  • policyowner — policyholder.
  • potter wasp — any of several mason wasps, especially of the genus Eumenes, that construct a juglike nest of mud.
  • potwalloper — (in some boroughs before the Reform Bill of 1832) a man who qualified as a householder, and therefore a voter, by virtue of ownership of his own fireplace at which to boil pots.
  • powder blue — a pale blue diluted with gray.
  • powder burn — a skin burn caused by exploding gunpowder.
  • powder down — modified down feathers that continually crumble at the tips, producing a fine powder that forms a bloom on the plumage of certain birds, as pigeons and herons.
  • powder flag — red flag (def 4).
  • powder horn — a powder flask made from the horn of a cow or ox.
  • powder mill — a mill in which gunpowder is made.
  • powder puff — fluffy pad for applying powder
  • powder room — a room containing a toilet and washing facilities for women; lavatory.
  • powder snow — powder1 (def 3).
  • powder-puff — limited to participation by women or girls: She plays on the powder-puff touch football team.
  • power ahead — If an economy or company powers ahead, it becomes stronger and more successful.
  • power alley — either of the two areas in the outfield between the outfielders
  • power brake — an automotive brake set by pressure from some power source, as a compressed-air reservoir, in proportion to a smaller amount of pressure on the brake pedal.
  • power brand — a brand of product that is a household name associated with a successful company
  • power cable — cable for conducting electric power.
  • power chain — an endless chain for transmitting motion and power between sprockets on shafts with parallel axes.
  • power cycle — (hardware)   (Or "cycle power", "cycle") To turn a machine's power off and on, with the intention of clearing some kind of hung or gronked state. Synonym 120 reset; see also Big Red Switch. Compare Vulcan nerve pinch, bounce and boot, and see the AI Koan about Tom Knight and the novice.
  • power drill — a drill operated by a motor.
  • power elite — a closely knit alliance of military, government, and corporate officials perceived as the center of wealth and political power in the U.S.
  • power lunch — ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
  • power mower — a lawn mower that is powered and propelled by an electric motor or gasoline engine (distinguished from hand mower).
  • power plant — a plant, including engines, dynamos, etc., and the building or buildings necessary for the generation of power, as electric or nuclear power.
  • power point — electrical socket
  • power press — a press operated by a mechanical, hydraulic, or pneumatic device.
  • power surge — an unexpected, temporary increase in the current or voltage of an electrical circuit
  • power train — a train of gears and shafting transmitting power from an engine, motor, etc., to a mechanism being driven.
  • powerboater — a powerboat owner or operator.
  • powerbroker — a person who wields great political, governmental, or financial power.
  • powerdomain — (theory)   The powerdomain of a domain D is a domain containing some of the subsets of D. Due to the asymmetry condition in the definition of a partial order (and therefore of a domain) the powerdomain cannot contain all the subsets of D. This is because there may be different sets X and Y such that X <= Y and Y <= X which, by the asymmetry condition would have to be considered equal. There are at least three possible orderings of the subsets of a powerdomain: Egli-Milner: X <= Y iff for all x in X, exists y in Y: x <= y and for all y in Y, exists x in X: x <= y ("The other domain always contains a related element"). Hoare or Partial Correctness or Safety: X <= Y iff for all x in X, exists y in Y: x <= y ("The bigger domain always contains a bigger element"). Smyth or Total Correctness or Liveness: X <= Y iff for all y in Y, exists x in X: x <= y ("The smaller domain always contains a smaller element"). If a powerdomain represents the result of an abstract interpretation in which a bigger value is a safe approximation to a smaller value then the Hoare powerdomain is appropriate because the safe approximation Y to the powerdomain X contains a safe approximation to each point in X. ("<=" is written in LaTeX as \sqsubseteq).
  • powerpc 601 — (processor)   A 32-bit RISC processor with 2.8 million transistors (~1.2 million in the core logic) and 32 kilobytes of on-chip cache. Die size: 118.8 mm2. Heat dissipation at 66MHz: 9W. Performance at 66MHz: integer >60 SPECint92, floating-point >80 SPECfp92. Estimated manufacturing cost: $76. Maximum instructions per cycle: 3. 32 32-bit general-purpose registers. 32 64-bit floating-point registers. Successors: PowerPC 603, 604, 620.
  • prairie owl — burrowing owl.
  • prizeworthy — deserving or qualified for a prize: a prizeworthy performance.
  • pro-western — lying toward or situated in the west: our company's western office.
  • pupil power — the influence of or the increased status of the beliefs or actions of pupils
  • repairwoman — a woman whose occupation is the making of repairs, readjustments, etc.
  • review copy — a copy of a book sent by a publisher to a journal, newspaper, etc, to enable it to be reviewed
  • rupturewort — a plant, Herniaria glabra, of the pink family
  • show jumper — A show jumper is a person who takes part in the sport of show jumping.
  • showerproof — (of clothing, fabric, etc.) treated so as to resist rain; rainproof.
  • showstopper — Theater. a performer or performance that wins enthusiastic or prolonged applause.
  • slipperwort — any of several tropical American plants belonging to the genus Calceolaria, of the figwort family, having opposite or whorled leaves and slipper-shaped flowers.
  • snow report — a regular weather report that concentrates on details of amounts of snow and conditions at ski resorts
  • soap powder — soap produced and packaged in powdered form.
  • solar power — energy generated by the sun
  • spatterwork — a method of decorating whereby ink or another fluid is spattered over a medium
  • spin bowler — a bowler who specializes in bowling balls with a spinning motion
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