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11-letter words containing r, e, p, i, o

  • petit fours — a small teacake, variously frosted and decorated.
  • petitionary — of the nature of or expressing a petition.
  • pettifogger — a lawyer of inferior status who conducts unimportant cases, esp one who is unscrupulous or resorts to trickery
  • phanerozoic — the eon comprising the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic eras.
  • philosopher — a person who offers views or theories on profound questions in ethics, metaphysics, logic, and other related fields.
  • phosphorite — a sedimentary rock sufficiently rich in phosphate minerals to be used as a source of phosphorus for fertilizers.
  • phosphorize — phosphorate (def 1).
  • photocopier — any electrically operated machine using a photographic method, as the electrostatic process, for making instant copies of written, drawn, or printed material.
  • photometric — the measurement of the intensity of light or of relative illuminating power.
  • photoperiod — the interval in a 24-hour period during which a plant or animal is exposed to light.
  • photoresist — Electronics. a photosensitive liquid polymer, used in photolithography to produce integrated circuits.
  • physiolater — somebody who worships nature
  • physiometry — measurement of the physiological functions of the body.
  • piano tuner — a person who tunes pianos and sometimes other keyboard instruments.
  • picked over — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
  • pico rivera — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • picturegoer — a person who goes to the cinema, esp frequently
  • pieceworker — someone who does work paid for according to the quantity produced
  • pierre loti — Pierre [pyer] /pyɛr/ (Show IPA), (Louis Marie Julien Viaud) 1850–1923, French novelist.
  • pierrefonds — a former city in S Quebec, Canada, now part of Montreal.
  • piezometric — any of several instruments for measuring the pressure of a fluid or the compressibility of a substance when subjected to such a pressure.
  • pigeon drop — a confidence game or sleight-of-hand swindle whereby cash is extracted from the victim as collateral for a supposed share in a large sum of discovered money, dishonest profits, or gambling winnings, which in fact are nonexistent.
  • pigeonholer — someone who likes to pigeonhole people or things
  • pill popper — a person who takes pills regularly and in quantity.
  • pilocarpine — an oil or crystalline alkaloid, C 1 1 H 1 6 N 2 O 2 , obtained from jaborandi, and used chiefly to produce sweating, promote the flow of saliva, contract the pupil of the eye, and for glaucoma.
  • pilot error — (jargon)   (Sun, from aviation) A user's misconfiguration or misuse of a piece of software, producing apparently bug-like results. E.g. "Joe Luser reported a bug in sendmail that causes it to generate bogus headers." "That's not a bug, that's pilot error. His "sendmail.cf" is hosed." Compare UBD.
  • pilot raise — a small raise intended to be enlarged later.
  • pioneer day — a legal holiday in Utah on July 24 to commemorate Brigham Young's founding of Salt Lake City in 1847.
  • pipe smoker — a person who smokes a tobacco pipe
  • piperaceous — belonging to the Piperacae, the pepper family of plants.
  • pirate copy — an illicitly reproduced copy of a DVD, video, book, game, etc
  • pirouetting — a whirling about on one foot or on the points of the toes, as in ballet dancing.
  • pitchometer — an instrument embodying a clinometer, for measuring the pitch of a ship's propeller
  • pitchperson — a pitchman or pitchwoman
  • pleiomerous — (of a flower) having a greater than normal number of parts
  • pleiotropic — the phenomenon of one gene being responsible for or affecting more than one phenotypic characteristic.
  • pleochroism — the property of certain crystals of exhibiting different colors when viewed from different directions under transmitted light. Compare dichroism (def 1), trichroism.
  • pleomorphic — of, relating to, or characterized by pleomorphism; polymorphous.
  • plerophoria — full conviction
  • pleurodynia — pain in the chest or side.
  • plumigerous — wearing or possessing feathers
  • pluripotent — (of a cell) capable of developing into any type of cell or tissue except those that form a placenta or embryo: pluripotent stem cells.
  • pluviometer — rain gauge.
  • plyometrics — a system of exercise in which the muscles are repeatedly stretched and suddenly contracted
  • podetiiform — shaped like a podetium.
  • point after — a score given for a successful kick between the goalposts and above the crossbar, following a touchdown
  • polarimeter — an instrument for measuring the amount of light received from a given source as a function of its state of polarization.
  • polariscope — an instrument for measuring or exhibiting the polarization of light or for examining substances in polarized light, often to determine stress and strain in glass and other substances.
  • polarizable — to cause polarization in.
  • police work — the everyday duties of police officers, esp the investigation of criminal activities
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