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11-letter words containing a, c, e, n, p

  • pitch plane — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
  • plane chart — a chart used in plane sailing, in which the lines of latitude and longitude are straight and parallel
  • plane crash — an accident in which an aircraft hits land or water and is damaged or destroyed
  • planimetric — the measurement of plane areas.
  • planoconvex — pertaining to or noting a lens that is plane on one side and convex on the other.
  • platycnemia — (in the shinbone) the state of being laterally flattened.
  • play-centre — a regular meeting of small children arranged by their parents or a welfare agency to give them an opportunity of supervised creative play
  • plecopteran — Also, plecopterous. belonging or pertaining to the insect order Plecoptera, comprising the stoneflies.
  • plectognath — belonging to the Plectognathi, a group or order of fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick, often spiny, scaleless skin, and including the filefish, globefish, puffer, and triggerfish.
  • pneudraulic — of or relating to a mechanism involving both pneumatic and hydraulic action.
  • pococurante — a careless or indifferent person.
  • policewoman — a female member of a police force or body.
  • polynuclear — having many nuclei.
  • polyvalence — Chemistry. having more than one valence.
  • pontificate — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
  • power chain — an endless chain for transmitting motion and power between sprockets on shafts with parallel axes.
  • preachiness — the quality of being preachy; a preachy style, esp a tedious one
  • preachingly — in a preaching manner, with preaching
  • preacquaint — to acquaint (someone with information) in advance
  • preannounce — to make known publicly or officially; proclaim; give notice of: to announce a special sale.
  • preaudience — the right to be given an audience before other people; the privilege of being the first to be heard
  • precambrian — noting or pertaining to the earliest era of earth history, ending 570 million years ago, during which the earth's crust formed and life first appeared in the seas.
  • precipitant — falling headlong.
  • precisional — the state or quality of being precise.
  • preclinical — of or relating to the period prior to the appearance of the symptoms.
  • precolonial — of or relating to the time before a region or country became a colony.
  • precontract — a preexisting contract that legally prevents a person from making another contract of the same nature.
  • predicament — an unpleasantly difficult, perplexing, or dangerous situation.
  • predication — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
  • predynastic — of, relating to, or belonging to a time or period before the first dynasty of a nation, especially the period in Egypt before c3200 b.c.
  • prefinanced — financed in advance
  • prehispanic — Spanish.
  • preindicate — to indicate in advance; presage: The early thaw preindicated an avalanche.
  • prejudicant — judging beforehand
  • preoccupant — a previous occupant
  • prepunctual — arriving before the appointed time
  • preromantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
  • presanctify — to sanctify ahead of an event
  • presynaptic — being or occurring on the transmitting end of a discharge across a synapse.
  • prevacation — a period of suspension of work, study, or other activity, usually used for rest, recreation, or travel; recess or holiday: Schoolchildren are on vacation now.
  • price range — the highest and lowest price of a commodity, security, etc., over a given period of time.
  • pro-vaccine — any preparation used as a preventive inoculation to confer immunity against a specific disease, usually employing an innocuous form of the disease agent, as killed or weakened bacteria or viruses, to stimulate antibody production.
  • procreation — to beget or generate (offspring).
  • procrustean — pertaining to or suggestive of Procrustes.
  • prosaicness — commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
  • prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
  • protodeacon — a chief deacon in the Greek Church.
  • punctuative — the practice or system of using certain conventional marks or characters in writing or printing in order to separate elements and make the meaning clear, as in ending a sentence or separating clauses.
  • punctulated — bearing small spots or dots
  • punicaceous — of or relating to the family Punicaceae, containing the pomegranates
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