11-letter words containing p, r, e, l, a, t
- petrol tank — The petrol tank in a motor vehicle is the container for petrol.
- phalanstery — the buildings occupied by a phalanx. the community itself.
- phrenetical — of or relating to phrenitis
- phylacteric — of or relating to phylacteries
- physiolater — somebody who worships nature
- pilot raise — a small raise intended to be enlarged later.
- plain tripe — the fatty, inner lining of the first stomach (the rumen) of a steer, calf, hog, or sheep, having a bland taste and used as a food, especially in the preparation of such dishes as haggis, head cheese, etc.
- plane chart — a chart used in plane sailing, in which the lines of latitude and longitude are straight and parallel
- planer tree — a small tree, Planera aquatica, of the elm family, growing in moist ground in the southern U.S., bearing a small, ovoid, nutlike fruit and yielding a compact light-brown wood.
- planet gear — any of the gears in an epicyclic train surrounding and engaging with the sun gear.
- planetarian — a staff member at a planetarium.
- planetarium — an apparatus or model representing the planetary system.
- planimetric — the measurement of plane areas.
- planthopper — any member of a large and varied group of homopterous insects that are related to the leafhoppers and the spittlebugs but rarely damage cultivated plants.
- plantigrade — walking on the whole sole of the foot, as humans, and bears.
- plasterwork — finish or ornamental work done in plaster.
- plasticizer — any of a group of substances that are used in plastics or other materials to impart viscosity, flexibility, softness, or other properties to the finished product.
- plasticware — knives, forks, spoons, cups, etc., made of plastic: a picnic hamper with plasticware for six.
- plastiqueur — a person, especially a terrorist, who makes, places, or detonates plastic bombs.
- plastometer — an instrument for measuring the plasticity of a substance.
- plate armor — armor made of thin, flat, shaped pieces of wrought iron or steel.
- plate proof — proof taken from a plate ready for printing.
- plateholder — a lightproof container for a photographic plate, loaded into the camera with the plate and having a slide that is removed before exposing.
- plateresque — noting or pertaining to a 16th-century style of Spanish architecture characterized by profuse applications of delicate low-relief Renaissance ornament to isolated parts of building exteriors.
- platyrrhine — Anthropology. having a broad, flat-bridged nose.
- play-centre — a regular meeting of small children arranged by their parents or a welfare agency to give them an opportunity of supervised creative play
- plecopteran — Also, plecopterous. belonging or pertaining to the insect order Plecoptera, comprising the stoneflies.
- poetry slam — a violent and noisy closing, dashing, or impact.
- polarimeter — an instrument for measuring the amount of light received from a given source as a function of its state of polarization.
- poles apart — each of the extremities of the axis of the earth or of any spherical body.
- politbureau — (often lowercase) the executive committee and chief policymaking body of a Communist Party.
- polysorbate — any of a class of emulsifying and dispersing agents used in various foods and pharmaceutical preparations.
- portal vein — the large vein conveying blood to the liver from the veins of the stomach, intestine, spleen, and pancreas.
- 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.
- power plant — a plant, including engines, dynamos, etc., and the building or buildings necessary for the generation of power, as electric or nuclear power.
- practicable — capable of being done, effected, or put into practice, with the available means; feasible: a practicable solution.
- prattlement — chatter, prattling
- pre-ethical — not governed by ethics, or not having an ethical or moral aspect
- preambulate — to make a preamble, to give an introduction
- precritical — anteceding a crisis.
- precultural — of or relating to culture or cultivation.
- predictable — able to be foretold or declared in advance: New technology allows predictable weather forecasting.
- predictably — able to be foretold or declared in advance: New technology allows predictable weather forecasting.
- predoctoral — of or relating to study undertaken in preparation for a doctoral degree.
- prefectural — the office, jurisdiction, territory, or official residence of a prefect.
- prelateship — the rank of a prelate
- prelibation — a foretaste.
- preliterary — occurring before the existence of literature
- preliterate — lacking a written language; nonliterate: a preliterate culture.
- prematerial — the substance or substances of which a thing is made or composed: Stone is a durable material.