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11-letter words containing p, y, r

  • beach party — a party held on a beach
  • benzopyrene — an aromatic hydrocarbon, C20H12, found in coal tar, cigarette smoke, etc. and known to be a cause of cancer in animals
  • berkeley fp — (language)   A version of Backus's FP distributed with 4.2BSD Unix.
  • berry spoon — a small spoon, especially of the late 18th century, having a perforated bowl.
  • bipyramidal — relating to a symmetrical structure consisting of two pyramids
  • block party — A block party is an outdoor party for all the residents of a block or neighborhood.
  • body packer — a smuggler of illegal drugs, especially one who swallows bags containing them.
  • body-packer — a person who smuggles illicit drugs in balloons, condoms, or similar plastic bags which have either been swallowed or inserted in the rectum or vagina
  • booby prize — The booby prize is a prize given as a joke to the person who comes last in a competition.
  • boy soprano — a young male singer whose voice is in the soprano range and has not yet broken, esp one who performs solo
  • brachyprism — the four faces parallel to the brachyaxis in a crystal
  • bradypeptic — a person with slow digestion
  • brandy snap — Brandy snaps are very thin crisp biscuits in the shape of hollow cylinders. They are flavoured with ginger and are often filled with cream.
  • broken play — an improvised offensive play that results when the originally planned play has failed to be executed properly.
  • bryophyllum — a genus of plants of the family Crassulaceae with the ability to produce plantlets on their leaves or floral stems
  • butyl group — any of four univalent isomeric groups having the formula C 4 H 9 –.
  • caecotrophy — (biology) In certain mammals, especially rabbits and other lagomorphs, the consumption of food pellets which are naturally produced by means of digestion, retention in the caecum, and expulsion through the anus.
  • calligraphy — Calligraphy is the art of producing beautiful handwriting using a brush or a special pen.
  • calyptrogen — a layer of rapidly dividing cells at the tip of a plant root, from which the root cap is formed. It occurs in grasses and many other plants
  • capillarity — a phenomenon caused by surface tension and resulting in the distortion, elevation, or depression of the surface of a liquid in contact with a solid
  • carbon copy — If you say that one person or thing is a carbon copy of another, you mean that they look or behave exactly like them.
  • carbon-copy — a duplicate of anything written or typed, made by using a photocopier or, formerly, by using carbon paper. Abbreviation: cc. a copy of an email or other electronic document that is sent to one or more people in addition to the primary addressee. Abbreviation: cc.
  • cardiopathy — a heart disease or disorder
  • cartography — Cartography is the art or activity of drawing maps and geographical charts.
  • caryopteris — any of various shrubs with small blue or white flowers of the genus Caryopteris, all found in S and E Asia
  • catastrophy — Alternative form of catastrophe.
  • celery pine — a New Zealand gymnosperm tree, Phyllocladus trichomanoides, with celerylike shoots and useful wood: family Phyllocladaceae
  • chao phraya — a river in N Thailand, rising in the N highlands and flowing south to the Gulf of Thailand. Length: (including the headstreams Nan and Ping) 1200 km (750 miles)
  • chemigraphy — any technique for making engravings or etchings using chemicals and without the aid of photography.
  • cherry plum — a small widely planted Asian rosaceous tree, Prunus cerasifera, with white flowers and red or yellow cherry-like fruit
  • cherry-pick — If someone cherry-picks people or things, they choose the best ones from a group of them, often in a way that other people consider unfair.
  • chessplayer — a player of chess
  • chirography — handwriting; penmanship
  • chlorophyll — Chlorophyll is any, or all, of a group of green pigments that are found in plants and other organisms, which enables them to use the energy from sunlight.
  • chlorophyte — A lower plant of the division Chlorophyta, which comprises the green algae.
  • chorography — the technique of mapping regions
  • chou pastry — cream puff paste.
  • chrysograph — a manuscript, especially of the Middle Ages, written in gold or gold and silver ink.
  • chrysophyte — any of the golden alga species
  • chrysoprase — an apple-green variety of chalcedony: a gemstone
  • cleptocracy — Alternative form of kleptocracy.
  • coach party — a group of people who travel together on a coach trip
  • collagraphy — A printmaking process in which materials are applied to a rigid substrate (such as cardboard or wood).
  • company car — A company car is a car which an employer gives to an employee to use as their own, usually as a benefit of having a particular job, or because their job involves a lot of travelling.
  • competitory — competitive.
  • compilatory — of or relating to a compilation or compiler
  • componentry — the components of a machine, vehicle, stereo system, etc.
  • compotatory — of, relating to, or fond of compotation
  • conspirancy — Misspelling of conspiracy.
  • contraparty — the other person or institution entering into a financial contract or transaction: the default of a counterparty.
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