11-letter words containing r, e, o, p, s
- prehistoric — of or relating to the time or a period prior to recorded history: The dinosaur is a prehistoric beast.
- preinvasion — occurring before an invasion
- prep school — preparatory school.
- preposition — any member of a class of words found in many languages that are used before nouns, pronouns, or other substantives to form phrases functioning as modifiers of verbs, nouns, or adjectives, and that typically express a spatial, temporal, or other relationship, as in, on, by, to, since.
- prepositive — (of a word) placed before another word to modify it or to show its relation to other parts of the sentence. In red book, red is a prepositive adjective. John's in John's book is a prepositive genitive.
- preschooler — a child below the official school starting age, usually a child up to age five.
- prescission — the action of prescinding
- preselector — a preamplifier between the antenna and receiving circuit, used to improve reception.
- presolution — the act of solving a problem, question, etc.: The situation is approaching solution.
- press baron — an influential newspaper publisher or owner who usually controls more than one widely circulated newspaper.
- press corps — a group of journalists representing various publications who regularly cover the same beat: the White House press corps.
- press money — prest money.
- press proof — the last proof examined before matter goes to press.
- prest money — a sum of money advanced to men enlisting in the navy or the army, given to bind the bargain and as an inducement.
- prestations — a payment in money or in services.
- prestigious — indicative of or conferring prestige: the most prestigious address in town.
- prestissimo — (a musical direction) in the most rapid tempo.
- prestonpans — a seaside resort in the Lothian region, in SE Scotland, E of Edinburgh: battle 1745.
- presumption — the act of presuming.
- pretensions — the laying of a claim to something.
- pretentious — characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-important waiter.
- previous to — before, prior to
- previsional — characteristic of prevision
- priest-hole — a secret chamber in certain houses in England, built as a hiding place for Roman Catholic priests when they were proscribed in the 16th and 17th centuries
- prime focus — the focal point of the objective lens or primary mirror of a telescope
- prioritised — to arrange or do in order of priority: learning to prioritize our assignments.
- pro-chinese — the standard language of China, based on the speech of Beijing; Mandarin.
- pro-oestrus — proestrus.
- pro-slavery — favoring slavery.
- pro-western — lying toward or situated in the west: our company's western office.
- probusiness — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
- proceedings — a particular action or course or manner of action.
- processable — capable of being processed.
- processible — capable of being processed.
- procrustean — pertaining to or suggestive of Procrustes.
- proctoscope — an instrument for visual examination of the interior of the rectum.
- profeminist — advocating social, political, legal, and economic rights for women equal to those of men.
- professedly — allegedly; pretendedly: He is only professedly poor.
- profusively — profuse; lavish; prodigal: profusive generosity.
- progestogen — progestin.
- progressing — a movement toward a goal or to a further or higher stage: the progress of a student toward a degree.
- progression — the act of progressing; forward or onward movement.
- progressism — the philosophy of a progressist
- progressist — a person favoring progress, as in politics; progressive.
- progressive — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
- 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.
- prokopyevsk — a city in the S central Russian Federation in Asia, NW of Novokuznetsk.
- proliferous — proliferating.
- promiseless — without promise
- 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.