11-letter words containing oi
- noiselessly — accompanied by or making little or no noise; silent; quiet: a noiseless step; a noiseless typewriter.
- noisemakers — Plural form of noisemaker.
- noisemaking — The production of noise.
- noisomeness — The state or quality of being noisome.
- noisy miner — a honey-eater, Manorina melanocephala, of eastern Australia, having a grey-white plumage and brown wings and noted for its raucous cries
- nonhumanoid — Not humanoid.
- nonsteroids — Plural form of nonsteroid.
- ocean-going — (of a ship) designed and equipped to travel on the open sea.
- octanedioic — designating a type of acid found in suberin and castor oil
- oil derrick — derrick (def 2).
- oil embargo — a prohibition of the trade of petroleum from one country to another
- oil gilding — gilding of glass or ceramic ware by using a size of japan or lacquer.
- oil of cade — a juniper, Juniperus oxycedrus, of the Mediterranean area, whose wood on destructive distillation yields an oily liquid (oil of cade) used in treating skin diseases.
- oil varnish — a preparation consisting of resinous matter, as copal or lac, dissolved in an oil (oil varnish) or in alcohol (spirit varnish) or other volatile liquid. When applied to the surface of wood, metal, etc., it dries and leaves a hard, more or less glossy, usually transparent coating.
- oil-burning — that uses paraffin, esp as a domestic fuel
- oillionaire — a millionaire whose wealth is derived from the petroleum industry.
- ongoingness — The condition of being ongoing.
- organ point — a tone sustained by one part, usually the bass, while other parts progress without reference to it.
- overexploit — to use (natural resources etc) excessively, causing a reduction
- panel point — a joint between two or more members of a truss.
- paraffinoid — resembling a paraffin.
- paramastoid — of or relating to the part of the skull next to the mastoid process
- parathyroid — situated near the thyroid gland.
- paratyphoid — Also called paratyphoid fever. an infectious disease, similar in some of its symptoms to typhoid fever but usually milder, caused by any of several bacilli of the genus Salmonella other than S. typhi.
- pedal point — a sustained bass note, over which the other parts move bringing about changing harmonies
- pentagonoid — like a pentagon in shape.
- pentaploidy — the condition of being pentaploid
- perestroika — Russian. the program of economic and political reform in the Soviet Union initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986.
- peril point — the lower limit of a tariff on a commodity at which import of that commodity would have a seriously adverse effect on the local producers.
- perilla oil — a light yellow oil, obtained from the seeds of mints of the genus Perilla, used in Asia as a cooking oil and elsewhere in the manufacture of varnish, printing ink, and artificial leather.
- petit point — a small stitch used in embroidery. Compare gros point (def 1), tent stitch.
- petits pois — small sweet fresh green peas
- phanerozoic — the eon comprising the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic eras.
- photoionize — to cause to undergo or to undergo photoionization
- pig boiling — wet puddling.
- pinpointing — the point of a pin.
- pivot joint — a freely moving joint that moves by rotating
- pleochroism — the property of certain crystals of exhibiting different colors when viewed from different directions under transmitted light. Compare dichroism (def 1), trichroism.
- plumb joint — (in sheet metal work) a soldered lap joint.
- poikilocyte — an abnormally shaped red blood cell
- point after — a score given for a successful kick between the goalposts and above the crossbar, following a touchdown
- point count — a method of evaluating the strength of a hand by assigning a numerical value to high cards and to certain combinations and distributions of cards in the hand.
- point coupe — Also called cutwork. a process for producing lace in which predetermined threads in the ground material are cut and removed in order to provide open areas for the insertion of ornamental patterns.
- point group — a class of crystals determined by a combination of their symmetry elements, all crystals left unchanged by a given set of symmetry elements being placed in the same class.
- point guard — Basketball. the guard who directs the team's offense from the point.
- point-blank — aimed or fired straight at the mark especially from close range; direct.
- pointillism — a theory and technique developed by the neo-impressionists, based on the principle that juxtaposed dots of pure color, as blue and yellow, are optically mixed into the resulting hue, as green, by the viewer.
- pointy-head — stupid; idiotic.
- poison bean — Also called bladderpod. a tall plant, Glottidium vesicaria, of the legume family, native to the southeastern U.S., having clusters of yellow flowers and pods containing highly poisonous seeds.
- poison pill — a pellet of a quick-acting poison, as cyanide, for a spy to carry in order to commit suicide when faced with capture or torture.