11-letter words containing p, r, e, d, o, c
- description — You can say that something is beyond description, or that it defies description, to emphasize that it is very unusual, impressive, terrible, or extreme.
- descriptors — Plural form of descriptor.
- desk copier — a photocopier compact enough to fit on a desk, table, or similar surface.
- dexiotropic — (of cleavage) spiral; twisting in a spiral fashion from left to right
- diaphoretic — relating to or causing sweat
- dichroscope — an instrument for investigating the dichroism of solutions or crystals
- dimercaprol — a colorless, oily, viscous liquid, C 3 H 8 OS 2 , originally developed as an antidote to lewisite and now used in treating bismuth, gold, mercury, and arsenic poisoning.
- dipterocarp — A tall forest tree from which are obtained resins and timber for the export trade, occurring mainly in Southeast Asia.
- disceptator — a person who disputes or disagrees
- discerption — The action of pulling something apart.
- doctorspeak — the language of physicians and other health professionals; specialized or technical jargon used by healthcare workers.
- double-crop — to raise two consecutive crops on the same land within a single growing season.
- drip coffee — a beverage prepared in a vessel in which boiling water filters from a top compartment through the coffee into a pot below.
- drop cookie — a cookie made by dropping batter from a spoon onto a cookie sheet for baking.
- due process — established course of legal proceedings
- end product — result of a process
- endomorphic — Of or pertaining to an endomorph.
- endospermic — Of, or relating to the endosperm.
- endotrophic — obtaining nourishment from within another plant
- epitrochoid — A geometric curve traced by a fixed point on one circle which rotates around the perimeter of another circle. Examples include the shape of the Wankel engine.
- escape road — a road, usually ending in a pile of sand, provided on a hill for a driver to drive into if his brakes fail or on a bend if he loses control of the turn
- face powder — a cosmetic powder used to give a mat finish to the face.
- food parcel — parcels of food prepared and sent, esp by charitable organizations, to people in need
- food prices — the prices that consumers are charged for food
- hydroscopes — Plural form of hydroscope.
- hypodermics — Plural form of hypodermic.
- ideographic — an ideogram.
- incorrupted — not corrupted
- iproclozide — A hydrazine drug previously used as an antidepressant, known to cause fulminant hepatitis.
- nondescript — of no recognized, definite, or particular type or kind: a nondescript novel; a nondescript color.
- operculated — relating to the operculum
- orthopaedic — of or relating to orthopedics.
- orthopedics — (used with a singular verb) the medical specialty concerned with correction of deformities or functional impairments of the skeletal system, especially the extremities and the spine, and associated structures, as muscles and ligaments.
- overcropped — Simple past tense and past participle of overcrop.
- overproduce — to produce more of (a product or commodity) than is required
- pedantocrat — a pedantic ruler
- pedomorphic — a speeding up of the rate of development, resulting in an adult form that has the appearance of its larval or juvenile ancestor.
- perchloride — the chloride of any particular element or group with the maximum proportion of chlorine.
- periodicity — the character of being periodic; the tendency to recur at regular intervals.
- photoreduce — to undergo or to cause to undergo photoreduction
- picked over — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- placeholder — Mathematics, Logic. a symbol in an expression that may be replaced by the name of any element of the set.
- pocket door — a door, usually one of a communicating pair, that slides into and out of a recess in a doorway wall.
- poker-faced — an expressionless face: He can tell a funny story with a poker face.
- pondicherry — a union territory of India, on the Coromandel Coast: formerly the chief settlement of French India; territory includes Mahé (on the Malabar Coast), Karikal, and Yanaon. 181 sq. mi. (469 sq. km).
- postdivorce — of, or relating to the period after a person is divorced
- pouched rat — pocket gopher.
- pound-force — a foot-pound-second unit of force, equal to the force that produces an acceleration equal to the acceleration of gravity when acting on a mass of one pound. Abbreviation: lbf.
- praecordial — of or pertaining to a part of the body near or in front of the heart; located near to or in front of the heart
- precomposed — to compose beforehand: to precompose a reply to a possible question.