11-letter words containing t, a, e, m, o
- overpayment — to pay more than (an amount due): I received a credit after overpaying the bill.
- oyster farm — a place where oyster beds are kept.
- oysterwoman — a woman who gathers, cultivates, or sells oysters.
- paracetamol — painkilling drug
- patelliform — having the form of a patella; shaped like a saucer, kneecap, or limpet shell.
- peanut worm — any small, unsegmented, marine worm of the phylum Sipuncula, that when disturbed retracts its anterior portion into the body, giving the appearance of a peanut seed.
- pedobaptism — the baptism of infants.
- pentamerous — consisting of or divided into five parts.
- pentastomid — tongue worm.
- pentatonism — the use of a five-tone scale.
- permutation — the act of permuting or permutating; alteration; transformation.
- perth amboy — a seaport in E New Jersey.
- petalomania — the condition in which a flower has proportionately more petals than is normal
- phantomlike — an apparition or specter.
- phonematics — phonemics.
- plagiostome — (of fish) belonging to the genus Plagiostomi, which includes sharks and rays, characterized by a transverse mouth with the jaw suspended from the skull
- planogamete — a motile gamete.
- plastometer — an instrument for measuring the plasticity of a substance.
- plate armor — armor made of thin, flat, shaped pieces of wrought iron or steel.
- pneumathode — a band or pore of aerating tissue, esp along the stipes of ferns
- poetry slam — a violent and noisy closing, dashing, or impact.
- polarimeter — an instrument for measuring the amount of light received from a given source as a function of its state of polarization.
- pomegranate — a chambered, many-seeded, globose fruit, having a tough, usually red rind and surmounted by a crown of calyx lobes, the edible portion consisting of pleasantly acid flesh developed from the outer seed coat.
- portmanteau — a case or bag to carry clothing in while traveling, especially a leather trunk or suitcase that opens into two halves.
- potamogeton — a plant of the Potamogeton genus of perennial aquatic plants, known also as pondweed
- predominant — having ascendancy, power, authority, or influence over others; preeminent.
- predominate — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
- premonetary — of or relating to the coinage or currency of a country.
- prenominate — mentioned beforehand.
- preromantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
- problematic — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
- proctodaeum — proctodeum.
- project mac — (project) A project suggested by J C R Licklider; its founding director was MIT Prof. Robert M Fano. MAC stood for Multiple Access Computers on the 5th floor of Tech Square, and Man and Computer on the 9th floor. The major efforts were Corbato's Multics development and Marvin Minsky's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In 1963 Project MAC hosted a summer study, which brought many well-known computer scientists to Cambridge to use CTSS and to discuss the future of computing. Funding for Project MAC was provided by the Information Processing Techniques Office of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the US Department of Defense. See also Early PL/I, MacLisp, MACSYMA, MDL, Multipop-68, OCAL.
- promulgated — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- prostomiate — having a prostomium.
- protonemata — a primary, usually filamentous structure produced by the germination of the spore in mosses and certain related plants, and from which the leafy plant which bears the sexual organs arises as a lateral or terminal shoot.
- proximately — next; nearest; immediately before or after in order, place, occurrence, etc.
- psammophyte — a plant that grows in sand or sandy soil.
- quantasomes — any of numerous particles in a chloroplast, part of the thylakoid and functioning in photosynthesis.
- quantometer — a spectroscopic instrument for measuring the percentage of different metals present in a sample
- radiometric — Also called Crookes radiometer. an instrument for demonstrating the transformation of radiant energy into mechanical work, consisting of an exhausted glass vessel containing vanes that revolve about an axis when exposed to light.
- radiothermy — therapy that utilizes the heat from a shortwave radio apparatus or diathermy machine.
- rambouillet — one of a breed of hardy sheep, developed from the Merino, yielding good mutton and a fine grade of wool.
- re-accustom — to familiarize by custom or use; habituate: to accustom oneself to cold weather.
- reactionism — of, pertaining to, marked by, or favoring reaction, especially extreme conservatism or rightism in politics; opposing political or social change.
- reallotment — the act or process of reallotting something
- reanimation — to restore to life; resuscitate.
- reclamation — the reclaiming of desert, marshy, or submerged areas or other wasteland for cultivation or other use.
- recombinant — of or resulting from new combinations of genetic material: recombinant cells.
- reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.