11-letter words containing r, d, o, p
- promenading — a stroll or walk, especially in a public place, as for pleasure or display.
- promo video — a video or short film that promotes or advertises something
- prompt side — the part of the stage that in the U.S. is to the right and in Britain to the left as one faces the audience. Abbreviation: P.S.
- promptitude — promptness.
- promulgated — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- proofreader — to read (printers' proofs, copy, etc.) in order to detect and mark errors to be corrected.
- propagandas — information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
- prophethood — a person who speaks for God or a deity, or by divine inspiration.
- prosauropod — a herbivorous dinosaur of the Triassic and early Jurassic periods
- prostituted — a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money; whore; harlot.
- protandrous — (of hermaphrodite or monoecious plants) maturing the anthers before the stigma
- prothalloid — resembling a prothallus
- proto-doric — of or relating to architecture, as in certain Egyptian tombs, supposedly anticipating the Grecian Doric order.
- protodeacon — a chief deacon in the Greek Church.
- protopodite — the basal portion of a two-branched crustacean leg or other appendage.
- proud flesh — granulation tissue.
- provide for — support financially
- providences — a seaport in and the capital of Rhode Island, in the NE part, at the head of Narragansett Bay.
- providently — having or showing foresight; providing carefully for the future.
- provisioned — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- prudhoe bay — an inlet of the Beaufort Sea, N of Alaska: large oil and gas fields.
- pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
- pseudomorph — an irregular or unclassifiable form.
- pseudoprime — A backgammon prime (six consecutive occupied points) with one point missing. This term is an esoteric pun derived from a mathematical method that, rather than determining precisely whether a number is prime (has no divisors), uses a statistical technique to decide whether the number is "probably" prime. A number that passes this test is called a pseudoprime. The hacker backgammon usage stems from the idea that a pseudoprime is almost as good as a prime: it does the job of a prime until proven otherwise, and that probably won't happen.
- psychodrama — a method of group psychotherapy in which participants take roles in improvisational dramatizations of emotionally charged situations.
- 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.
- pteropodium — the foot of a pteropod.
- pulled pork — of or denoting meat that is cooked until the meat can easily be pulled off the bone, as in pulled pork.
- purportedly — reputed or claimed; alleged: We saw no evidence of his purported wealth.
- purse-proud — proud of one's wealth, especially in an arrogant or showy manner.
- push around — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- put forward — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- pyrovanadic — of or relating to an acid of vanadium
- 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.
- quadraphony — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
- quadripoint — A point at which four borders meet.
- radarscopes — Plural form of radarscope.
- radiography — the production of radiographs.
- radiopacity — opaque to radiation; visible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy (opposed to radiotransparent).
- radiophonic — a radiotelephone.
- radix point — a point, such as the decimal point in the decimal system, separating the integral part of a number from the fractional part
- reappointed — to name or assign to a position, an office, or the like; designate: to appoint a new treasurer; to appoint a judge to the bench.
- record shop — store selling recorded music
- red emperor — a brightly-coloured marine food fish, Lutjanus sebae, of the Great Barrier Reef
- red puccoon — bloodroot; a plant yielding a red dye
- reperformed — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
- report card — a written report containing an evaluation of a pupil's scholarship and behavior, sent periodically to the pupil's parents or guardian, usually on a card containing marks and comments together with a record of attendance.
- reposedness — the quality or state of being in repose or settled
- reprocessed — (of wool) previously spun and woven but not used, as tailors' clippings.