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11-letter words containing p, r, e, t, i, o

  • percolation — the act or state of percolating or of being percolated.
  • perduration — the act of lasting forever or enduring continually; the capacity to endure indefinitely
  • perennation — the survival of a plant through the winter or dry season
  • perestroika — Russian. the program of economic and political reform in the Soviet Union initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986.
  • perforation — a hole, or one of a series of holes, bored or punched through something, as those between individual postage stamps of a sheet to facilitate separation.
  • perforative — that perforates readily
  • peril point — the lower limit of a tariff on a commodity at which import of that commodity would have a seriously adverse effect on the local producers.
  • periodicity — the character of being periodic; the tendency to recur at regular intervals.
  • periodontal — of or relating to the periodontium.
  • periodontia — the bone, connective tissue, and gum surrounding and supporting a tooth.
  • periostitis — inflammation of the periosteum.
  • peritonitic — inflammation of the peritoneum, often accompanied by pain and tenderness in the abdomen, vomiting, constipation, and moderate fever.
  • peritonitis — inflammation of the peritoneum, often accompanied by pain and tenderness in the abdomen, vomiting, constipation, and moderate fever.
  • perlocution — (of a speech act) producing an effect upon the listener, as in persuading, frightening, amusing, or causing the listener to act.
  • permutation — the act of permuting or permutating; alteration; transformation.
  • perquisitor — the first person to own property that has subsequently been handed down to his heirs
  • persecution — the act of persecuting.
  • personalist — Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
  • personality — the visible aspect of one's character as it impresses others: He has a pleasing personality.
  • personation — to act or portray (a character in a play, a part, etc.).
  • persorption — the deep penetration of a liquid into a highly porous solid, resulting in an intimate mixture.
  • pestiferous — bringing or bearing disease.
  • petit fours — a small teacake, variously frosted and decorated.
  • petitionary — of the nature of or expressing a petition.
  • pettifogger — a lawyer of inferior status who conducts unimportant cases, esp one who is unscrupulous or resorts to trickery
  • phosphorite — a sedimentary rock sufficiently rich in phosphate minerals to be used as a source of phosphorus for fertilizers.
  • photocopier — any electrically operated machine using a photographic method, as the electrostatic process, for making instant copies of written, drawn, or printed material.
  • photometric — the measurement of the intensity of light or of relative illuminating power.
  • photoperiod — the interval in a 24-hour period during which a plant or animal is exposed to light.
  • photoresist — Electronics. a photosensitive liquid polymer, used in photolithography to produce integrated circuits.
  • physiolater — somebody who worships nature
  • physiometry — measurement of the physiological functions of the body.
  • piano tuner — a person who tunes pianos and sometimes other keyboard instruments.
  • picturegoer — a person who goes to the cinema, esp frequently
  • pierre loti — Pierre [pyer] /pyɛr/ (Show IPA), (Louis Marie Julien Viaud) 1850–1923, French novelist.
  • piezometric — any of several instruments for measuring the pressure of a fluid or the compressibility of a substance when subjected to such a pressure.
  • pilot error — (jargon)   (Sun, from aviation) A user's misconfiguration or misuse of a piece of software, producing apparently bug-like results. E.g. "Joe Luser reported a bug in sendmail that causes it to generate bogus headers." "That's not a bug, that's pilot error. His "sendmail.cf" is hosed." Compare UBD.
  • pilot raise — a small raise intended to be enlarged later.
  • pirate copy — an illicitly reproduced copy of a DVD, video, book, game, etc
  • pirouetting — a whirling about on one foot or on the points of the toes, as in ballet dancing.
  • pitchometer — an instrument embodying a clinometer, for measuring the pitch of a ship's propeller
  • pitchperson — a pitchman or pitchwoman
  • pleiotropic — the phenomenon of one gene being responsible for or affecting more than one phenotypic characteristic.
  • pluripotent — (of a cell) capable of developing into any type of cell or tissue except those that form a placenta or embryo: pluripotent stem cells.
  • pluviometer — rain gauge.
  • plyometrics — a system of exercise in which the muscles are repeatedly stretched and suddenly contracted
  • podetiiform — shaped like a podetium.
  • point after — a score given for a successful kick between the goalposts and above the crossbar, following a touchdown
  • polarimeter — an instrument for measuring the amount of light received from a given source as a function of its state of polarization.
  • policy term — The policy term is the lifetime of an insurance policy.
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