11-letter words containing p, t, e, r, o
- four-poster — a bed with four corner posts, as for supporting a canopy, curtains, etc.
- frost grape — riverbank grape.
- gametophore — a part or structure bearing gametangia.
- gastroscope — a lighted flexible tubular instrument passed through the mouth for examining the esophagus, stomach, and duodenum.
- geostrophic — of or relating to the balance between the Coriolis force and the horizontal pressure force in the atmosphere.
- gerontophil — experiencing sexual attraction to old people
- go to press — When a newspaper or magazine goes to press, it starts being printed.
- gob-stopper — a large piece of hard candy.
- gobstoppers — Plural form of gobstopper.
- gomphothere — Any of the extinct proboscideans of the family Gomphotheriidae, that lived in North America and Eurasia during the Miocene and Pliocene (12\u20141.6 million years ago), and latterly also in South America (around 3 million to 9100 years ago).
- gonadotrope — a gonadotropic substance.
- grade point — Education. a numerical equivalent to a received letter grade, usually 0 for F, 1 for D, 2 for C, 3 for B, and 4 for A, that is multiplied by the number of credits for the course: used to compute a grade point average.
- graded post — a position in a school having special responsibility for which additional payment is given
- graptolites — Plural form of graptolite.
- great power — a nation that has exceptional military and economic strength, and consequently plays a major, often decisive, role in international affairs.
- grey import — an imported vehicle that does not have an exact model equivalent in the receiving country
- hall porter — concierge
- helicopters — Plural form of helicopter.
- heliotropes — Plural form of heliotrope.
- heliotropic — turning or growing toward the light.
- heliotropin — piperonal.
- hemeprotein — (protein) Any conjugated protein containing heme as the prosthetic group.
- hemipterous — belonging or pertaining to the Hemiptera, an order of insects having forewings that are thickened and leathery at the base and membranous at the apex, comprising the true bugs.
- hemoprotein — Alternative spelling of hemeprotein.
- hemotherapy — therapy by means of blood, serum, or plasma transfusion.
- hemotrophic — the material from the maternal bloodstream and placenta that nourishes a mammalian embryo.
- heptahedron — a solid figure having seven faces.
- heptamerous — consisting of or divided into seven parts.
- heptandrous — (of a flower) having seven stamens
- herpetology — the branch of zoology dealing with reptiles and amphibians.
- heterocarpy — the production of more than one kind of fruit in one plant.
- heteromorph — (zoology) An ammonite whose shell is unusual in not being a regular spiral.
- heterophemy — The use of one word or phrase when another is meant.
- heterophile — Able to react immunologically with material from another species.
- heterophobe — Someone who suffers from heterophobia.
- heterophone — A word whose spelling and sound both differ from another\u2019s.
- heterophony — the simultaneous performance of the same melodic line, with slight individual variations, by two or more performers.
- heterophyte — a plant that secures its nutrition directly or indirectly from other organisms; a parasite or saprophyte.
- heteroplasm — (pathology) Tissue growing in a part of the body where it does not normally occur.
- heteroploid — (biology) Having a chromosome number that is neither the haploid nor the diploid number normal in the species.
- heteropolar — polar (def 4).
- heteroptics — incorrect or perverted perception of what is seen; hallucinatory vision.
- heterospory — the production of both microspores and megaspores.
- heterotopia — misplacement or displacement, as of an organ.
- heterotroph — Biology. an organism requiring organic compounds for its principal source of food.
- heterotypic — of or relating to the first or reductional division in meiosis.
- hierophants — Plural form of hierophant.
- hip pointer — a painful bruise or torn muscle at the upper ridge of the pelvis
- hip-shooter — a person who acts or talks in a rash, impetuous way
- hippocrates — ("Father of Medicine") c460–c377 b.c, Greek physician.