11-letter words containing p, r, o, n
- planography — the art or technique of printing from a flat surface directly or by offset.
- 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.
- plantocracy — government by plantation owners.
- planuliform — resembling a planula
- platforming — a process for reforming petroleum using a platinum catalyst
- play around — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- plecopteran — Also, plecopterous. belonging or pertaining to the insect order Plecoptera, comprising the stoneflies.
- pleurodynia — pain in the chest or side.
- 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.
- pneumograph — a device for recording graphically the respiratory movements of the thorax.
- pococurante — a careless or indifferent person.
- point after — a score given for a successful kick between the goalposts and above the crossbar, following a touchdown
- point group — a class of crystals determined by a combination of their symmetry elements, all crystals left unchanged by a given set of symmetry elements being placed in the same class.
- point guard — Basketball. the guard who directs the team's offense from the point.
- poke around — to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.
- polar angle — Usually, polar coordinates. one of two coordinates used to locate a point in a plane by the length of its radius vector and the angle this vector makes with the polar axis (polar angle)
- polar front — Meteorology. the variable frontal zone of middle latitudes separating air masses of polar and tropical origin.
- policyowner — policyholder.
- poll rating — a measurement of a politician's popularity among the electorate, obtained by canvassing a representative sample of people
- polonnaruwa — a town in E central Sri Lanka: Buddhist ruins.
- poltroonery — a wretched coward; craven.
- polyandrist — a woman who practices or favors polyandry.
- polyandrous — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or practicing polyandry; polyandric.
- polyangular — multangular; multiangular.
- polycentric — having many centers, especially of power or importance: the polycentric world of banking.
- polynuclear — having many nuclei.
- polystyrene — a clear plastic or stiff foam, a polymer of styrene, used chiefly as an insulator in refrigerators and air conditioners.
- pomegranate — a chambered, many-seeded, globose fruit, having a tough, usually red rind and surmounted by a crown of calyx lobes, the edible portion consisting of pleasantly acid flesh developed from the outer seed coat.
- pond-skater — any of various heteropterous insects of the family Gerrididae, esp Gerris lacustris (common pond-skater), having a slender hairy body and long hairy legs with which they skim about on the surface of ponds
- ponderation — a weight
- ponderingly — in a pondering manner
- ponderosity — of great weight; heavy; massive.
- ponderously — of great weight; heavy; massive.
- 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).
- pop concert — a concert of popular and light classical music played by a symphony orchestra.
- pore fungus — any fungus of the families Boletacea and Polyporaceae, bearing spores in tubes or pores.
- pornography — sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, whose purpose is to elicit sexual arousal.
- pornotopian — of or relating to a pornotopia
- porphyratin — any of various complex compounds formed of metals and porphyrins
- porriginous — pertaining to or designating porrigo
- port gentil — a seaport in W Gabon.
- port hudson — a village in SE Louisiana, on the Mississippi, N of Baton Rouge: siege during the U.S. Civil War 1863.
- port neches — a town in SE Texas.
- port number — port
- port orange — a city in E Florida.
- port-gentil — a seaport in W Gabon.
- portal vein — the large vein conveying blood to the liver from the veins of the stomach, intestine, spleen, and pancreas.
- portmanteau — a case or bag to carry clothing in while traveling, especially a leather trunk or suitcase that opens into two halves.
- porto rican — former official name (until 1932) of Puerto Rico.
- positronium — a short-lived atomic system consisting of a positron and an electron bound together.