11-letter words containing p, t, y, a
- postholiday — occurring after a holiday
- postnatally — after birth, following a birth
- postprimary — of or relating to education after primary school
- postulatory — of or relating to a postulate or assumption
- potentially — possibly but not yet actually: potentially useful information.
- potty-chair — a small chair with an open seat over a removable pot, for use by a child during toilet training.
- potty-train — to teach a small child to use a potty or toilet
- potvaliancy — brave only as a result of being drunk.
- poultry-man — a person who raises domestic fowls, especially chickens, to sell as meat; a chicken farmer.
- pourability — to send (a liquid, fluid, or anything in loose particles) flowing or falling, as from one container to another, or into, over, or on something: to pour a glass of milk; to pour water on a plant.
- practically — in effect; virtually: It is practically useless to protest.
- predicatory — of or relating to preaching.
- predictably — able to be foretold or declared in advance: New technology allows predictable weather forecasting.
- predynastic — of, relating to, or belonging to a time or period before the first dynasty of a nation, especially the period in Egypt before c3200 b.c.
- preliterary — occurring before the existence of literature
- prematurely — occurring, coming, or done too soon: a premature announcement.
- prematurity — occurring, coming, or done too soon: a premature announcement.
- premonetary — of or relating to the coinage or currency of a country.
- preparatory — serving or designed to prepare: preparatory arrangements.
- presanctify — to sanctify ahead of an event
- presbyteral — of or relating to a presbyter or presbytery
- present-day — current; modern: present-day techniques; present-day English.
- press party — a party given for reporters and photographers exclusively or particularly to get publicity, as for the introduction of a new product, the maiden voyage of a liner, or the like.
- presynaptic — being or occurring on the transmitting end of a discharge across a synapse.
- prevalently — widespread; of wide extent or occurrence; in general use or acceptance.
- primatology — the branch of zoology dealing with the primates.
- primiparity — a woman who has borne but one child or who is parturient for the first time.
- privacy act — an act that protects a person against the unauthorized use of personal data by any government agency
- private eye — a private detective.
- private key — (cryptography) A piece of data used in private-key cryptography and public-key cryptography. In the former the private key is known by both sender and recipient whereas in the latter it is known only to the sender.
- 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.
- proactivity — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- probability — the quality or fact of being probable.
- procuratory — Roman History. any of various imperial officials with fiscal or administrative powers.
- prodigality — the quality or fact of being prodigal; wasteful extravagance in spending.
- profanatory — tending to desecrate; profaning.
- prokaryotes — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
- prokaryotic — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
- promilitary — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
- propagatory — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
- proprietary — belonging to a proprietor.
- pros. atty. — prosecuting attorney
- protanomaly — a defect of vision characterized by a diminished response of the retina to red.
- protocolary — the customs and regulations dealing with diplomatic formality, precedence, and etiquette.
- protogalaxy — the large concentration of gas and dust from which a galaxy is formed.
- protomartyr — the first Christian martyr, Saint Stephen.
- protonotary — prothonotary.
- provocatory — tending to provoke
- proximately — next; nearest; immediately before or after in order, place, occurrence, etc.
- psammophyte — a plant that grows in sand or sandy soil.