11-letter words containing l, a, p, o, r, t
- pilot chart — any of a number of charts issued to mariners by the U.S. Hydrographic Office and showing meteorological, hydrographic, and navigational conditions prevailing, or likely to prevail, subsequent to the date of issue in some part of the world: issued monthly for most areas.
- pilot raise — a small raise intended to be enlarged later.
- piscatorial — of or relating to fishermen or fishing: a piscatory treaty.
- planthopper — any member of a large and varied group of homopterous insects that are related to the leafhoppers and the spittlebugs but rarely damage cultivated plants.
- plantocracy — government by plantation owners.
- plasterwork — finish or ornamental work done in plaster.
- plastometer — an instrument for measuring the plasticity of a substance.
- plate armor — armor made of thin, flat, shaped pieces of wrought iron or steel.
- plate proof — proof taken from a plate ready for printing.
- plateholder — a lightproof container for a photographic plate, loaded into the camera with the plate and having a slide that is removed before exposing.
- platforming — a process for reforming petroleum using a platinum catalyst
- play doctor — a person, usually a professional playwright, employed to improve a script, especially shortly before the play's opening.
- plecopteran — Also, plecopterous. belonging or pertaining to the insect order Plecoptera, comprising the stoneflies.
- plutocratic — of, relating to, or characterized by a plutocracy or plutocrats.
- poetry slam — a violent and noisy closing, dashing, or impact.
- polar front — Meteorology. the variable frontal zone of middle latitudes separating air masses of polar and tropical origin.
- polar orbit — a spacecraft orbit that passes over, or close to, the geographic poles of the earth or some other celestial body.
- polarimeter — an instrument for measuring the amount of light received from a given source as a function of its state of polarization.
- poles apart — each of the extremities of the axis of the earth or of any spherical body.
- politbureau — (often lowercase) the executive committee and chief policymaking body of a Communist Party.
- poll parrot — polly.
- poll rating — a measurement of a politician's popularity among the electorate, obtained by canvassing a representative sample of people
- polyandrist — a woman who practices or favors polyandry.
- polycrystal — an object composed of randomly oriented crystals, formed by rapid solidification
- polysorbate — any of a class of emulsifying and dispersing agents used in various foods and pharmaceutical preparations.
- port lavaca — a town in S Texas.
- port talbot — a port in SE Wales, in Neath Port Talbot county borough on Swansea Bay: established as a coal port in the mid-19th century; large steelworks; ore terminal. Pop: 35 633 (2001)
- portability — the state or quality of being portable.
- portal vein — the large vein conveying blood to the liver from the veins of the stomach, intestine, spleen, and pancreas.
- post-larval — of, relating to, or in the form of a larva.
- post-racial — characterized by the absence of racial discord, discrimination, or prejudice previously or historically present: post-racial politics; the post-racial era.
- postal card — a card sold by the post office with a stamp already printed on it.
- postcranial — located posterior to the head.
- 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.
- postulatory — of or relating to a postulate or assumption
- potwalloper — (in some boroughs before the Reform Bill of 1832) a man who qualified as a householder, and therefore a voter, by virtue of ownership of his own fireplace at which to boil pots.
- 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.
- power plant — a plant, including engines, dynamos, etc., and the building or buildings necessary for the generation of power, as electric or nuclear power.
- predoctoral — of or relating to study undertaken in preparation for a doctoral degree.
- prelibation — a foretaste.
- 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.
- probational — the act of testing.
- problematic — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
- proclaimant — someone who proclaims
- prodigality — the quality or fact of being prodigal; wasteful extravagance in spending.