11-letter words containing s, a, d, o
- phosphatide — phospholipid.
- photostated — a camera for making facsimile copies of documents, drawings, etc., in the form of paper negatives on which the positions of lines, objects, etc., in the originals are maintained.
- piss around — If you say that someone pisses around or pisses about, you mean they waste a lot of time doing unimportant things.
- piston land — A piston land is a raised area of a piston between piston rings.
- plasmodesma — any of many minute strands of cytoplasm that extend through plant cell walls and connect adjoining cells.
- polyandrist — a woman who practices or favors polyandry.
- polyandrous — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or practicing polyandry; polyandric.
- pond-skater — any of various heteropterous insects of the family Gerrididae, esp Gerris lacustris (common pond-skater), having a slender hairy body and long hairy legs with which they skim about on the surface of ponds
- postal card — a card sold by the post office with a stamp already printed on it.
- postal code — British. postcode.
- postholiday — occurring after a holiday
- postlanding — occurring after a landing (of an aircraft, shuttle, etc)
- preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
- predisposal — to give an inclination or tendency to beforehand; make susceptible: Genetic factors may predispose human beings to certain metabolic diseases.
- prison yard — a piece of enclosed ground attached to a prison, where prisoners may take exercise at certain times
- propagandas — information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
- prosauropod — a herbivorous dinosaur of the Triassic and early Jurassic periods
- protandrous — (of hermaphrodite or monoecious plants) maturing the anthers before the stigma
- pseudoedema — effusion of serous fluid into the interstices of cells in tissue spaces or into body cavities.
- pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
- pseudologia — a psychological condition in which a patient tells elaborate, false stories believing them to be true
- pseudomonad — any of various bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas
- pseudomonas — any of several rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas, certain species of which are pathogenic for plants and animals.
- pseudopodal — (of protozoans) belonging to the former division Pseudopoda
- pseudopodia — pseudopod.
- psychodelia — the production of, or the culture associated with, psychedelic experiences
- psychodrama — a method of group psychotherapy in which participants take roles in improvisational dramatizations of emotionally charged situations.
- push around — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- put down as — If you put someone or something down as a particular type of person or thing, you consider that they are that thing.
- quadrasonic — of, noting, or pertaining to the recording and reproduction of sound over four separate transmission or direct reproduction channels instead of the customary two of the stereo system: a quadraphonic recording.
- radarscopes — Plural form of radarscope.
- radicellose — having small roots or rhizoids
- radio shack — a room or structure, as on a ship, for housing radio equipment.
- radio waves — an electromagnetic wave having a wavelength between 1 millimeter and 30,000 meters, or a frequency between 10 kilohertz and 300,000 megahertz.
- radiocesium — cesium 137.
- radiologist — the science dealing with x-rays or nuclear radiation, especially for medical uses.
- radiosodium — the radioactive isotope of sodium having an atomic mass of 24 and a half-life of 14.9 hours: used as a tracer in biochemistry.
- radiovision — television.
- radnorshire — a historic county in Powys, in E Wales.
- rain shadow — a region in the lee of mountains that receives less rainfall than the region windward of the mountains.
- read-across — a correlation or relationship between two separate things
- readmission — the act of allowing to enter; entrance granted by permission, by provision or existence of pecuniary means, or by the removal of obstacles: the admission of aliens into a country.
- rebroadcast — to broadcast again from the same station.
- restationed — a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
- rhabdovirus — any of various RNA-containing viruses of the family Rhabdoviridae, including the rabies virus.
- rhapsodical — extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic.
- road safety — prevention of traffic accidents
- road-trials — a road test
- robbinsdale — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
- rock island — a port in NW Illinois, on the Mississippi: government arsenal.