11-letter words containing p, r, o, t, y, i
- proselyting — a person who has changed from one opinion, religious belief, sect, or the like, to another; convert.
- proselytism — the act or fact of becoming a proselyte; conversion.
- proselytize — try to attract converts
- proteolysis — the breaking down of proteins into simpler compounds, as in digestion.
- proteolytic — the breaking down of proteins into simpler compounds, as in digestion.
- protophytic — pertaining to the class Protophyta
- 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.
- providently — having or showing foresight; providing carefully for the future.
- proximately — next; nearest; immediately before or after in order, place, occurrence, etc.
- proxy fight — a contest between factions of stockholders in a company, in which each group attempts to gain control by soliciting signed proxy statements for sufficient votes.
- pteridology — the branch of botany dealing with ferns and related plants, as the horsetails and club mosses.
- pyrobitumen — any of the dark, solid hydrocarbons including peat, coal, and bituminous shale.
- pyroclastic — composed chiefly of fragments of volcanic origin, as agglomerate, tuff, and certain other rocks; volcaniclastic.
- pyrogenetic — heat-producing
- pyrognostic — relating to heated minerals
- pyrokinetic — the ability to set objects or people on fire through the concentration of psychic power.
- pyrotechnic — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
- pyroxenitic — relating to pyroxenite
- radiopacity — opaque to radiation; visible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy (opposed to radiotransparent).
- reciprocity — a reciprocal state or relation.
- rehypnotize — to hypnotize again
- repudiatory — the act of repudiating.
- respiratory — pertaining to or serving for respiration: respiratory disease.
- retinopathy — any diseased condition of the retina, especially one that is noninflammatory.
- retinoscopy — an objective method of determining the refractive error of an eye.
- rhinoplasty — plastic surgery of the nose.
- saprophytic — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- sporadicity — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- sporocystic — of or like a sporocyst
- stasimorphy — structural modification by arrested development
- stereotypic — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
- superiority — the quality or condition of being superior.
- suppository — a solid, conical mass of medicinal substance that melts upon insertion into the rectum or vagina.
- temporality — temporal character or nature; temporariness.
- temporarily — lasting, existing, serving, or effective for a time only; not permanent: a temporary need; a temporary job.
- term policy — a policy whose period of coverage is in excess of one year, usually paying a reduced premium rate, as in fire insurance.
- tetraploidy — having a chromosome number that is four times the basic or haploid number.
- thyrotropic — capable of stimulating the thyroid gland.
- thyrotropin — an anterior pituitary hormone that regulates the activity of the thyroid gland.
- timbrophily — the love of stamps; stamp collecting
- torrey pine — a rare pine tree, Pinus torreyana, having a rounded crown of branches, growing in a limited area on the southern coast of California.
- trepidatory — characterized by trepidation
- trichonymph — a flagellated protozoan of the genus Trichonympha that lives in the intestine of wood-eating termites, transforming the cellulose in the wood into soluble carbohydrates that can be utilized by the insect.
- triphyllous — having three leaves.
- trophically — of or relating to nutrition; concerned in nutritive processes.
- trophy wife — the young, often second, wife of a rich middle-aged man.
- tropicality — pertaining to, characteristic of, occurring in, or inhabiting the tropics, especially the humid tropics: tropical flowers.
- tropomyosin — a protein in muscle tissue that works with troponin to control the process by which actin and myosin interact to produce muscle contraction
- trypanocide — a drug or substance that kills trypanosomes
- trypsinogen — a precursor of trypsin that is secreted by the pancreas and is activated to trypsin in the small intestine.