11-letter words containing p, r, o, n
- prospection — anticipation
- prostrating — to cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.
- prostration — the act of prostrating.
- protagonism — the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.
- protagonist — the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.
- protandrous — (of hermaphrodite or monoecious plants) maturing the anthers before the stigma
- protanomaly — a defect of vision characterized by a diminished response of the retina to red.
- proteinuria — the presence of abnormally large amounts of protein in the urine, usually resulting from kidney disease but sometimes from fever, excessive exercise, or other abnormal condition.
- prothrombin — a plasma protein involved in blood coagulation that on activation by factors in the plasma is converted to thrombin.
- proto-ionic — of or relating to architecture supposedly anticipating the Grecian Ionic order.
- proto-norse — the North Germanic language of Scandinavia up to about 700 ad
- protodeacon — a chief deacon in the Greek Church.
- protogynous — of or relating to a flower in which the shedding of pollen occurs after the stigma has stopped being receptive; having female sex organs maturing before the male.
- protonation — the act of providing an atom, molecule, or ion with a proton
- protonemata — a primary, usually filamentous structure produced by the germination of the spore in mosses and certain related plants, and from which the leafy plant which bears the sexual organs arises as a lateral or terminal shoot.
- protonotary — prothonotary.
- protopectin — any of the class of water-insoluble pectic substances that are found in the rind of citrus fruits or in apple peels and that are hydrolyzed to pectin or pectic acid.
- protoplanet — the collection of matter, in the process of condensation, from which a planet is formed.
- prototyping — The creation of a model and the simulation of all aspects of a product. CASE tools support different degrees of prototyping. Some offer the end-user the ability to review all aspects of the user interface and the structure of documentation and reports before code is generated.
- protraction — the act of protracting; prolongation; extension.
- protuberant — bulging out beyond the surrounding surface; protruding; projecting: protuberant eyes.
- provenience — provenance; origin; source.
- providences — a seaport in and the capital of Rhode Island, in the NE part, at the head of Narragansett Bay.
- providently — having or showing foresight; providing carefully for the future.
- provisional — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
- provisioned — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- provisioner — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- provocation — the act of provoking.
- provokement — the act or instance of provoking
- proximation — next; nearest; immediately before or after in order, place, occurrence, etc.
- pruriginous — of, relating to, or causing prurigo.
- pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
- pulveration — the reduction of something to powder
- punk rocker — a type of rock-'n'-roll, reaching its peak in the late 1970s and characterized by loud, insistent music and abusive or violent protest lyrics, and whose performers and followers are distinguished by extremes of dress and socially defiant behavior.
- pure merino — a free settler rather than a convict
- pure reason — reason based on a priori principles and providing a unifying ground for the perception of the phenomenal world.
- purgatorian — a person who believes in purgatory
- pursuant to — legal: in accordance with
- push around — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- put on airs — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- pycniospore — the spore produced in a pycnium.
- pyrobitumen — any of the dark, solid hydrocarbons including peat, coal, and bituminous shale.
- pyrogenetic — heat-producing
- pyrognostic — relating to heated minerals
- pyrokinesis — the ability to set objects or people on fire through the concentration of psychic power.
- pyrokinetic — the ability to set objects or people on fire through the concentration of psychic power.
- pyrotechnic — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
- pyrovanadic — of or relating to an acid of vanadium
- pyroxenitic — relating to pyroxenite
- pyrrolidine — a colorless, water-soluble, unpleasant smelling, poisonous liquid, C 4 H 9 N, from which proline and certain alkaloids are derived, prepared by reducing pyrrole: used chiefly in organic synthesis.