11-letter words containing r, o, s, y, p
- ponderosity — of great weight; heavy; massive.
- ponderously — of great weight; heavy; massive.
- posteriorly — situated behind or at the rear of; hinder (opposed to anterior).
- postprimary — of or relating to education after primary school
- postpuberty — the period after puberty
- postpyloric — the opening between the stomach and the duodenum.
- postulatory — of or relating to a postulate or assumption
- press money — prest money.
- 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.
- prison yard — a piece of enclosed ground attached to a prison, where prisoners may take exercise at certain times
- pro-slavery — favoring slavery.
- proctoscopy — examination by means of a proctoscope.
- professedly — allegedly; pretendedly: He is only professedly poor.
- profusively — profuse; lavish; prodigal: profusive generosity.
- 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.
- promiscuity — the state of being promiscuous.
- promisingly — giving favorable promise; likely to turn out well: a promising young man; a promising situation.
- prophesying — to foretell or predict.
- prophylaxis — Medicine/Medical. the preventing of disease. the prevention of a specific disease, as by studying the biological behavior, transmission, etc., of its causative agent and applying a series of measures against it.
- propriety's — conformity to established standards of good or proper behavior or manners.
- pros. atty. — prosecuting attorney
- prosaically — commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
- prosecutory — of, relating to, or concerned with prosecution.
- proselyting — a person who has changed from one opinion, religious belief, sect, or the like, to another; convert.
- proselytism — the act or fact of becoming a proselyte; conversion.
- proselytize — try to attract converts
- prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
- prosiliency — prominence
- proteolysis — the breaking down of proteins into simpler compounds, as in digestion.
- protogynous — of or relating to a flower in which the shedding of pollen occurs after the stigma has stopped being receptive; having female sex organs maturing before the male.
- psychodrama — a method of group psychotherapy in which participants take roles in improvisational dramatizations of emotionally charged situations.
- psychograph — Psychology. a graph indicating the relative strength of the personality traits of an individual.
- psychometer — a device for measuring mental or psychological activity
- psychometry — Psychology. psychometrics.
- psychomotor — of or relating to a response involving both motor and psychological components.
- pussyfooter — a person who behaves stealthily or evasively
- pycniospore — the spore produced in a pycnium.
- pyroclastic — composed chiefly of fragments of volcanic origin, as agglomerate, tuff, and certain other rocks; volcaniclastic.
- pyrognostic — relating to heated minerals
- pyrokinesis — the ability to set objects or people on fire through the concentration of psychic power.
- pyrolysable — able to be pyrolysed
- pyrosulfate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid.
- rapturously — full of, feeling, or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight.
- respiratory — pertaining to or serving for respiration: respiratory disease.
- responsibly — answerable or accountable, as for something within one's power, control, or management (often followed by to or for): He is responsible to the president for his decisions.
- retinoscopy — an objective method of determining the refractive error of an eye.
- rhinoplasty — plastic surgery of the nose.
- rosy pastor — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- saprophytic — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.