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11-letter words containing p, r

  • airport tax — Airport tax is a tax that airline passengers have to pay in order to use an airport.
  • alderperson — a member of a municipal legislative body, especially of a municipal council.
  • alford plea — Law. a pleading of guilty in a plea bargain in which the defendant maintains his or her innocence.
  • alkyl group — any of a series of univalent groups of the general formula C n H 2n+1 , derived from aliphatic hydrocarbons, as the methyl group, CH 3 −, or ethyl group, C 2 H 5 −.
  • all-purpose — You use all-purpose to refer to things that have lots of different uses or can be used in lots of different situations.
  • allelomorph — allele
  • allographic — Relating to allographs or allography.
  • allomorphic — any of two or more different forms of the same chemical compound.
  • allopurinol — a synthetic drug that reduces blood concentrations of uric acid and is administered orally in the treatment of gout. Formula: C5H4N4O
  • allotropism — a property of certain elements, as carbon, sulfur, and phosphorus, of existing in two or more distinct forms; allomorphism.
  • allotropous — (of flowers) having the nectar accessible to any species of insect
  • allyl group — the univalent group C 3 H 5 , derived from propylene.
  • alpha brass — a type of brass that contains less than 35 per cent zinc
  • alpha lyrae — Vega1
  • alpha tauri — Aldebaran
  • altarpieces — Plural form of altarpiece.
  • amateurship — the nature of an amateur
  • amici prism — a compound prism that spreads out incident white light into a spectrum but produces no deviation of the central color of the dispersed beam.
  • amino group — the univalent group, −NH 2 .
  • aminopterin — a derivative of pterin used in chemotherapy
  • aminopyrine — a colorless, crystalline powder, C13H17N3O, sometimes used to reduce fever or pain: may cause agranulocytosis
  • amniography — an x-ray examination of the amniotic sac after the injection of an opaque solution, performed to permit visualization of the umbilical cord and the placenta.
  • amorphously — lacking definite form; having no specific shape; formless: the amorphous clouds.
  • ampere-hour — a practical unit of quantity of electricity; the quantity that flows in one hour through a conductor carrying a current of 1 ampere. 1 ampere-hour is equivalent to 3600 coulombs
  • ampere-turn — a unit of magnetomotive force; the magnetomotive force produced by a current of 1 ampere passing through one complete turn of a coil. 1 ampere-turn is equivalent to 4π/10 or 1.257 gilberts
  • amperes-law — the law that a magnetic field induced by an electric current is, at any point, directly proportional to the product of the current intensity and the length of the current conductor, inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the point and the conductor, and perpendicular to the plane joining the point and the conductor.
  • amphibrachs — Plural form of amphibrach.
  • amphichiral — (mathematics) superimposable on its mirror image; achiral.
  • amphichroic — producing two colours, one on reacting with an acid, the other on reacting with a base
  • amphicrania — (pathology) A headache affecting both sides of the head.
  • amphidromia — a family festival in ancient Athens in honor of the birth of a child, during which the child received its name.
  • amphigories — Plural form of amphigory.
  • amphikaryon — a diploid nucleus.
  • amphimacers — Plural form of amphimacer.
  • amphistylar — (esp of a classical temple) having a set of columns at both ends or at both sides
  • amphithuron — amphithyra (def 1).
  • amphithyron — amphithyra (def 1).
  • amphitricha — bacteria that have flagella at both ends
  • amphoriskos — a miniature amphora.
  • ampitheater — Misspelling of amphitheater.
  • ampitheatre — Misspelling of amphitheatre.
  • amur privet — a northern Chinese shrub, Ligustrum amurense, of the olive family, having hairy leaves and white flowers.
  • amyotrophic — (medicine) Characterized by atrophy of the muscles.
  • anamorphism — intense metamorphism of a rock in which high-density complex minerals are formed from simpler minerals of lower density
  • anamorphous — lacking a clear or definite form
  • anaphoresis — the movement of suspended charged particles towards the anode in an electric field
  • anaphorical — of or relating to an anaphora
  • anaplerosis — the filling up of a scar, wound, etc which has decayed or been destroyed
  • anaplerotic — of or relating to anaplerosis
  • anastrophes — Plural form of anastrophe.
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