11-letter words containing p, r, o, y, l, e
- pre-holiday — a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person.
- premorbidly — pertaining to diseased parts: morbid anatomy.
- prepollency — the quality of being prepollent
- pro-slavery — favoring slavery.
- proactively — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- professedly — allegedly; pretendedly: He is only professedly poor.
- profusively — profuse; lavish; prodigal: profusive generosity.
- prominently — standing out so as to be seen easily; conspicuous; particularly noticeable: Her eyes are her most prominent feature.
- promycelium — a short filament produced in the germination of a spore that bears small spores and then dies.
- propylamine — an isomeric amine of propyl
- propylitize — to become propylite
- 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
- prosiliency — prominence
- proteolysis — the breaking down of proteins into simpler compounds, as in digestion.
- proteolytic — the breaking down of proteins into simpler compounds, as in digestion.
- providently — having or showing foresight; providing carefully for the future.
- proximately — next; nearest; immediately before or after in order, place, occurrence, etc.
- pteridology — the branch of botany dealing with ferns and related plants, as the horsetails and club mosses.
- pterodactyl — any of a number of genera of flying reptiles of the extinct order Pterosauria, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a highly reduced tail and teeth and a birdlike beak.
- purportedly — reputed or claimed; alleged: We saw no evidence of his purported wealth.
- pyelography — the science or technique of making photographs of the kidneys, renal pelves, and ureters by means of x-rays, after the injection of an opaque solution or of a radiopaque dye.
- pylorectomy — the surgical removal of all or part of the pylorus, often including the adjacent portion of the stomach (partial gastrectomy)
- pyrogallate — a salt or ether of pyrogallol.
- pyrolysable — able to be pyrolysed
- pyrosulfate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid.
- 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.
- reprovingly — to criticize or correct, especially gently: to reprove a pupil for making a mistake.
- responsibly — answerable or accountable, as for something within one's power, control, or management (often followed by to or for): He is responsible to the president for his decisions.
- sclerophyll — Also, sclerophyllous [skleer-uh-fil-uh s] /ˌsklɪər əˈfɪl əs/ (Show IPA). of, relating to, or exhibiting sclerophylly.
- self-parody — a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing: his hilarious parody of Hamlet's soliloquy.
- spectrology — the study of ghosts, phantoms, or apparitions.
- speculatory — a place suitable for observation
- stroke play — medal play.
- 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.
- thermopylae — a pass in E Greece, between the cliffs of Mt. Oeta and the Gulf of Lamia: Persian defeat of the Spartans 480 b.c.
- typedprolog — (language) A strongly typed logic programming language.
- unpurposely — intentionally; deliberately: He tripped me purposely.
- varley loop — a device containing a Wheatstone bridge, for comparing resistances and for locating faults in circuits.
- very pistol — a special pistol which fires coloured flares for signalling at night, esp at sea
- xylographed — Simple past tense and past participle of xylograph.
- xylographer — A person who makes xylographs.
- y2k problem — the predicted malfunction of some computer systems prior to or at the beginning of the year 2000 because of their inability to distinguish between dates in the 1900s and dates in the 2000s: this inability results from the coding of year dates in some software and chips with only the final two, rather than all four, digits
- zygopleural — possessing symmetry on both sides