11-letter words containing r, e, p, l
- persulphate — a sulphuric acid salt of a base peroxide
- perturbable — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- perturbedly — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- peru balsam — an aromatic balsam that is obtained from the tropical South American leguminous tree Myroxylon pereirae and is similar to balsam of Tolu
- pervasively — spread throughout: The corruption is so pervasive that it is accepted as the way to do business.
- pervouralsk — a city in the central RSFSR, in the Ural Mountains in Asia.
- peter snell — Peter (George) born 1938, New Zealand distance runner.
- petri plate — a petri dish containing culture medium
- petrodollar — profits made from oil exports
- petroglyphy — the skill or procedure of making rock carvings
- petrol bomb — Molotov cocktail.
- petrol pump — a device at a filling station that is used to deliver petrol to the tank of a car and which displays the quantity, quality, and usually the cost of the petrol delivered
- petrol tank — The petrol tank in a motor vehicle is the container for petrol.
- phalanstery — the buildings occupied by a phalanx. the community itself.
- philanderer — (of a man) to make love with a woman one cannot or will not marry; carry on flirtations.
- philosopher — a person who offers views or theories on profound questions in ethics, metaphysics, logic, and other related fields.
- phlebograph — an instrument for recording the venous pulse.
- phraseology — manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language: legal phraseology.
- phrenetical — of or relating to phrenitis
- phylacteric — of or relating to phylacteries
- phyllophore — the terminal bud of a stem, especially of the stem of a palm.
- physiolater — somebody who worships nature
- phytosterol — Biochemistry. any of various sterols obtained from plants.
- pierre loti — Pierre [pyer] /pyɛr/ (Show IPA), (Louis Marie Julien Viaud) 1850–1923, French novelist.
- pigeonholer — someone who likes to pigeonhole people or things
- pile driver — a machine for driving piles, usually composed of a tall framework in which either a weight is raised and dropped on a pile head or in which a steam hammer drives the pile.
- pile-driver — a machine for driving piles, usually composed of a tall framework in which either a weight is raised and dropped on a pile head or in which a steam hammer drives the pile.
- pilferingly — in the manner of a pilferer
- pilgrimager — a pilgrim
- pill popper — a person who takes pills regularly and in quantity.
- pill pusher — a medical doctor, especially one who too readily prescribes medication.
- pill-pusher — a medical doctor, especially one who too readily prescribes medication.
- 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.
- pincer-like — resembling pincers in shape or action
- pipistrelle — any of numerous insectivorous bats of the genus Pipistrellus, especially P. pipistrellus of Europe and Asia.
- placeholder — Mathematics, Logic. a symbol in an expression that may be replaced by the name of any element of the set.
- placekicker — a player who takes place kicks
- placerville — a town in central California; 19th-century gold-mining center.
- plagiarised — to take and use by plagiarism.
- plagiarizer — to take and use by plagiarism.
- plain tripe — the fatty, inner lining of the first stomach (the rumen) of a steer, calf, hog, or sheep, having a bland taste and used as a food, especially in the preparation of such dishes as haggis, head cheese, etc.
- plane chart — a chart used in plane sailing, in which the lines of latitude and longitude are straight and parallel
- plane crash — an accident in which an aircraft hits land or water and is damaged or destroyed
- planer tree — a small tree, Planera aquatica, of the elm family, growing in moist ground in the southern U.S., bearing a small, ovoid, nutlike fruit and yielding a compact light-brown wood.
- planet gear — any of the gears in an epicyclic train surrounding and engaging with the sun gear.
- planetarian — a staff member at a planetarium.
- planetarium — an apparatus or model representing the planetary system.
- planimetric — the measurement of plane areas.