11-letter words containing t, o, r, s, i
- poltergeist — a ghost or spirit supposed to manifest its presence by noises, knockings, etc.
- polyandrist — a woman who practices or favors polyandry.
- polycrotism — a polycrotic condition
- polyhistory — the quality of a polyhistor
- ponderosity — of great weight; heavy; massive.
- portraitist — a person who makes portraits.
- positronium — a short-lived atomic system consisting of a positron and an electron bound together.
- post-crisis — a stage in a sequence of events at which the trend of all future events, especially for better or for worse, is determined; turning point.
- post-racial — characterized by the absence of racial discord, discrimination, or prejudice previously or historically present: post-racial politics; the post-racial era.
- postcranial — located posterior to the head.
- postdivorce — of, or relating to the period after a person is divorced
- posteriorly — situated behind or at the rear of; hinder (opposed to anterior).
- posterities — succeeding or future generations collectively: Judgment of this age must be left to posterity.
- posticteric — pertaining to or affected with icterus; jaundiced.
- postillator — a writer of postils; an annotator, a postiller
- postmarital — occurring, effective, or provided after marriage
- postorbital — located behind the orbit or socket of the eye.
- postprimary — of or relating to education after primary school
- postpyloric — the opening between the stomach and the duodenum.
- posturizing — to posture; pose.
- pot sticker — a pan-fried and steamed Chinese dumpling with a ground meat or vegetable filling.
- praetorship — the office of a praetor.
- pre-notions — a preconception.
- precautious — using or displaying precaution: a precautious reply; a precautious person.
- precipitous — of the nature of or characterized by precipices: a precipitous wall of rock.
- prehistoric — of or relating to the time or a period prior to recorded history: The dinosaur is a prehistoric beast.
- preposition — any member of a class of words found in many languages that are used before nouns, pronouns, or other substantives to form phrases functioning as modifiers of verbs, nouns, or adjectives, and that typically express a spatial, temporal, or other relationship, as in, on, by, to, since.
- prepositive — (of a word) placed before another word to modify it or to show its relation to other parts of the sentence. In red book, red is a prepositive adjective. John's in John's book is a prepositive genitive.
- presolution — the act of solving a problem, question, etc.: The situation is approaching solution.
- prestations — a payment in money or in services.
- prestigious — indicative of or conferring prestige: the most prestigious address in town.
- prestissimo — (a musical direction) in the most rapid tempo.
- presumption — the act of presuming.
- pretensions — the laying of a claim to something.
- pretentious — characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-important waiter.
- previous to — before, prior to
- priest-hole — a secret chamber in certain houses in England, built as a hiding place for Roman Catholic priests when they were proscribed in the 16th and 17th centuries
- prioritised — to arrange or do in order of priority: learning to prioritize our assignments.
- prison riot — a disturbance made by an unruly mob in a prison
- pro-british — of or relating to Great Britain or its inhabitants.
- pro-fascist — a person who believes in or sympathizes with fascism.
- pro-zionist — a worldwide Jewish movement that resulted in the establishment and development of the state of Israel.
- proctorship — a person appointed to keep watch over students at examinations.
- productions — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
- profeminist — advocating social, political, legal, and economic rights for women equal to those of men.
- profits tax — tax charged on the profits made by a company, individual, etc
- prognathism — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- progressist — a person favoring progress, as in politics; progressive.
- promiscuity — the state of being promiscuous.
- prompt side — the part of the stage that in the U.S. is to the right and in Britain to the left as one faces the audience. Abbreviation: P.S.