11-letter words containing s, o, a, r, e
- overclasses — Plural form of overclass.
- overdosages — Plural form of overdosage.
- overearnest — Excessively earnest.
- overharvest — the harvesting of plants or animals in an unsustainable manner
- overhastily — in such a way as to be excessively hasty or done without enough consideration
- overmeasure — an excessive or surplus measure or amount: an overmeasure of exuberance.
- overstaffed — If you say that a place is overstaffed, you think there are more people working there than is necessary.
- overzealous — too zealous: overzealous for reform.
- oxenstierna — Count Axel [ahk-suh l] /ˈɑk səl/ (Show IPA), 1583–1654, Swedish statesman.
- oyster crab — a pea crab, Pinnotheres ostreum, the female of which lives as a commensal within the mantle cavity of oysters.
- oyster farm — a place where oyster beds are kept.
- oyster rake — a rake with a long handle and curved teeth for gathering in oysters from shallow waters
- oysterwoman — a woman who gathers, cultivates, or sells oysters.
- page proofs — the final version of a book before it goes to the printer, containing all elements including page numbers and layout
- paint horse — paint (def 6).
- panchreston — a proposed explanation intended to address a complex problem by trying to account for all possible contingencies but typically proving to be too broadly conceived and therefore oversimplified to be of any practical use.
- paperperson — a person who delivers newspapers to customers door to door.
- papyraceous — papery.
- paranephros — the adrenal gland
- parasensory — extrasensory.
- parcel post — (in the U.S. Postal Service) nonpreferential mail consisting of packages and parcels, weighing one pound or more sent at fourth-class rates. Compare fourth class.
- parishioner — one of the community or inhabitants of a parish.
- park forest — a city in NE Illinois.
- passagework — writing that is often extraneous to the thematic material of a work and is typically of a virtuosic or decorative character: passagework consisting of scales, arpeggios, trills, and double octaves.
- passeriform — of or relating to the order Passeriformes; passerine.
- pastoralize — to make pastoral or rural.
- paternoster — a molding having the form of a row of pearls.
- patter song — a comic song depending for its humorous effect on rapid enunciation of the words, occurring most commonly in comic opera and operetta.
- pea-shooter — a tube through which dried peas, beans, or small pellets are blown, used as a toy.
- peace corps — a civilian organization, sponsored by the U.S. government, that sends volunteers to instruct citizens of underdeveloped countries in the execution of industrial, agricultural, educational, and health programs.
- pease-brose — brose made from a meal of dried peas
- pechora sea — the SE part of the Barents Sea, northwest of Russia
- pentamerous — consisting of or divided into five parts.
- pentandrous — of or pertaining to the order of plants Pentandria, characterized by having five stamens
- perestroika — Russian. the program of economic and political reform in the Soviet Union initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986.
- peroxisomal — of or relating to a peroxisome; of the nature of a peroxisome
- person-year — a unit of measurement, especially in accountancy, based on an ideal amount of work done by one person in a year consisting of a standard number of person-days.
- personal ad — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- personalise — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
- personalism — Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
- personalist — Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
- personality — the visible aspect of one's character as it impresses others: He has a pleasing personality.
- personalize — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
- personation — to act or portray (a character in a play, a part, etc.).
- pervouralsk — a city in the central RSFSR, in the Ural Mountains in Asia.
- phanerogams — any of the Phanerogamia, a former primary division of plants comprising those having reproductive organs; a flowering plant or seed plant (opposed to cryptogam).
- phosphorate — Also, phosphorize. Chemistry. to combine or impregnate with phosphorus.
- phrase book — a small book containing everyday phrases and sentences and their equivalents in a foreign language, written especially for travelers.
- phraseogram — a written symbol or combination of symbols, as in shorthand, used to represent a phrase.
- phraseology — manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language: legal phraseology.