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11-letter words containing t, a, l, p, o, y

  • plantocracy — government by plantation owners.
  • platinotype — a process of printing positives in which a platinum salt is used, rather than the usual silver salts, in order to make a more permanent print.
  • play doctor — a person, usually a professional playwright, employed to improve a script, especially shortly before the play's opening.
  • playstation — (games, hardware)   The leading family of games consoles, from Sony Corporation consisting of the original Playstation (PS1) and the Playstation 2 (PS2). The basic Playstations consist of a small box containing the processor and a DVD reader, with video outputs to connect to a TV, sockets for two game controllers, and a socket for one or two memory cards. The PS2 also has USB sockets. The PS2 can run PS1 software because the PS2's I/O processor is the same as the PS1's CPU.
  • poetry slam — a violent and noisy closing, dashing, or impact.
  • politically — of, relating to, or concerned with politics: political writers.
  • polyactinal — possessing many rays
  • polyandrist — a woman who practices or favors polyandry.
  • polycrystal — an object composed of randomly oriented crystals, formed by rapid solidification
  • polydactyly — the condition of being polydactyl.
  • polygonatum — a plant of the genus Polygonatum
  • polysorbate — any of a class of emulsifying and dispersing agents used in various foods and pharmaceutical preparations.
  • portability — the state or quality of being portable.
  • postholiday — occurring after a holiday
  • postnatally — after birth, following a birth
  • postulatory — of or relating to a postulate or assumption
  • potentially — possibly but not yet actually: potentially useful information.
  • potvaliancy — brave only as a result of being drunk.
  • poultry-man — a person who raises domestic fowls, especially chickens, to sell as meat; a chicken farmer.
  • pourability — to send (a liquid, fluid, or anything in loose particles) flowing or falling, as from one container to another, or into, over, or on something: to pour a glass of milk; to pour water on a plant.
  • primatology — the branch of zoology dealing with the primates.
  • proactively — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
  • probability — the quality or fact of being probable.
  • prodigality — the quality or fact of being prodigal; wasteful extravagance in spending.
  • promilitary — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
  • protanomaly — a defect of vision characterized by a diminished response of the retina to red.
  • protocolary — the customs and regulations dealing with diplomatic formality, precedence, and etiquette.
  • protogalaxy — the large concentration of gas and dust from which a galaxy is formed.
  • proximately — next; nearest; immediately before or after in order, place, occurrence, etc.
  • pterodactyl — any of a number of genera of flying reptiles of the extinct order Pterosauria, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a highly reduced tail and teeth and a birdlike beak.
  • ptyalagogic — saliva-inducing
  • ptyalagogue — an item that causes the flow of saliva
  • pyroclastic — composed chiefly of fragments of volcanic origin, as agglomerate, tuff, and certain other rocks; volcaniclastic.
  • pyrogallate — a salt or ether of pyrogallol.
  • pyrosulfate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid.
  • rapturously — full of, feeling, or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight.
  • rhinoplasty — plastic surgery of the nose.
  • rotary plow — a tined auger mounted on a horizontal power-driven shaft, for pulverizing unplowed soil preparatory to planting.
  • spasmolytic — of or noting spasmolysis.
  • speculatory — a place suitable for observation
  • stroke play — medal play.
  • stylography — the art of writing, tracing, drawing, etc., with a style.
  • sympetalous — gamopetalous.
  • temporality — temporal character or nature; temporariness.
  • temporarily — lasting, existing, serving, or effective for a time only; not permanent: a temporary need; a temporary job.
  • tetraploidy — having a chromosome number that is four times the basic or haploid number.
  • thallophyte — any of the Thallophyta, a plant division in some older classification schemes, comprising algae, fungi, and lichens.
  • thermopylae — a pass in E Greece, between the cliffs of Mt. Oeta and the Gulf of Lamia: Persian defeat of the Spartans 480 b.c.
  • trophically — of or relating to nutrition; concerned in nutritive processes.
  • tropicality — pertaining to, characteristic of, occurring in, or inhabiting the tropics, especially the humid tropics: tropical flowers.
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