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11-letter words containing p, r, o, s, i

  • porriginous — pertaining to or designating porrigo
  • porro prism — an isosceles, right-triangular prism in which light entering one half of the hypotenuse face is reflected at the two short sides and is reversed in orientation when it leaves the other half of the hypotenuse: used in 90°-oriented pairs in binoculars to increase the length of the optical path and to erect the final image.
  • portraitist — a person who makes portraits.
  • positronium — a short-lived atomic system consisting of a positron and an electron bound together.
  • post-crisis — a stage in a sequence of events at which the trend of all future events, especially for better or for worse, is determined; turning point.
  • post-racial — characterized by the absence of racial discord, discrimination, or prejudice previously or historically present: post-racial politics; the post-racial era.
  • postcranial — located posterior to the head.
  • postdivorce — of, or relating to the period after a person is divorced
  • posteriorly — situated behind or at the rear of; hinder (opposed to anterior).
  • posterities — succeeding or future generations collectively: Judgment of this age must be left to posterity.
  • posticteric — pertaining to or affected with icterus; jaundiced.
  • postillator — a writer of postils; an annotator, a postiller
  • postmarital — occurring, effective, or provided after marriage
  • postorbital — located behind the orbit or socket of the eye.
  • postprimary — of or relating to education after primary school
  • postpyloric — the opening between the stomach and the duodenum.
  • posturizing — to posture; pose.
  • pot sticker — a pan-fried and steamed Chinese dumpling with a ground meat or vegetable filling.
  • praetorship — the office of a praetor.
  • pre-imposed — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
  • pre-notions — a preconception.
  • pre-scoring — to record the sound of (a motion picture) before filming.
  • preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
  • precautious — using or displaying precaution: a precautious reply; a precautious person.
  • precipitous — of the nature of or characterized by precipices: a precipitous wall of rock.
  • precisional — the state or quality of being precise.
  • predisposal — to give an inclination or tendency to beforehand; make susceptible: Genetic factors may predispose human beings to certain metabolic diseases.
  • predisposed — to give an inclination or tendency to beforehand; make susceptible: Genetic factors may predispose human beings to certain metabolic diseases.
  • prehistoric — of or relating to the time or a period prior to recorded history: The dinosaur is a prehistoric beast.
  • preinvasion — occurring before an invasion
  • preposition — any member of a class of words found in many languages that are used before nouns, pronouns, or other substantives to form phrases functioning as modifiers of verbs, nouns, or adjectives, and that typically express a spatial, temporal, or other relationship, as in, on, by, to, since.
  • prepositive — (of a word) placed before another word to modify it or to show its relation to other parts of the sentence. In red book, red is a prepositive adjective. John's in John's book is a prepositive genitive.
  • prescission — the action of prescinding
  • presolution — the act of solving a problem, question, etc.: The situation is approaching solution.
  • prestations — a payment in money or in services.
  • prestigious — indicative of or conferring prestige: the most prestigious address in town.
  • prestissimo — (a musical direction) in the most rapid tempo.
  • presumption — the act of presuming.
  • pretensions — the laying of a claim to something.
  • pretentious — characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-important waiter.
  • previous to — before, prior to
  • previsional — characteristic of prevision
  • priest-hole — a secret chamber in certain houses in England, built as a hiding place for Roman Catholic priests when they were proscribed in the 16th and 17th centuries
  • prime focus — the focal point of the objective lens or primary mirror of a telescope
  • primiparous — a woman who has borne but one child or who is parturient for the first time.
  • prioritised — to arrange or do in order of priority: learning to prioritize our assignments.
  • prison camp — a camp for the confinement of prisoners of war or political prisoners.
  • prison farm — a farm attached to a prison, where prisoners carry out hard labour
  • prison riot — a disturbance made by an unruly mob in a prison
  • prison yard — a piece of enclosed ground attached to a prison, where prisoners may take exercise at certain times
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