11-letter words containing a, c, e, p, t, n
- painted cup — any of several semiparasitic plants of the genus Castilleja, of the figwort family, having highly colored dilated bracts about the flowers.
- panathenaic — of or relating to a Panathenaea, a festival in honor of the goddess Athena.
- panchreston — a proposed explanation intended to address a complex problem by trying to account for all possible contingencies but typically proving to be too broadly conceived and therefore oversimplified to be of any practical use.
- panel truck — a small truck having a fully enclosed body, used mainly to deliver light or small objects.
- pantheistic — the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God's personality and expresses a tendency to identify God and nature.
- pantothenic — denoting an acid which is a growth-promoting vitamin of vitamin B complex
- paragenetic — the origin of minerals or mineral deposits in contact so as to affect one another's formation.
- parenthetic — of, pertaining to, noting, or of the nature of a parenthesis: several unnecessary parenthetic remarks.
- parenticide — a person who kills one or both of his or her parents.
- patsy cline — Patsy (Virginia Patterson Hensley) 1932–63, U.S. country singer.
- pawn ticket — a receipt given for goods left with a pawnbroker.
- peach stone — the stone in the centre of the fruit the peach
- pearlescent — having an iridescent luster resembling that of pearl; nacreous: healthy skin with a pearlescent glow.
- pecan patty — a praline made with pecans.
- pectinately — in a pectinate manner
- pedanticise — to be pedantic
- pedanticism — pedantry.
- pedanticize — to be pedantic
- pedantocrat — a pedantic ruler
- pedunculate — having a peduncle.
- pencil gate — any of a large number of narrow gates used for rapid distribution of metal in large castings.
- penicillate — having a penicil or penicils.
- pentactinal — of or relating to a pentact
- pentacyclic — having five rings of atoms
- pentadactyl — having five digits on each hand or foot.
- pentahydric — (especially of alcohols and phenols) pentahydroxy.
- pentazocine — a synthetic narcotic analgesic, C 1 9 H 2 7 NO, used chiefly for the relief of moderate to severe pain.
- pentecostal — of or relating to Pentecost, a Christian festival commemorating the descent of the Holy Ghost upon the apostles.
- percolation — the act or state of percolating or of being percolated.
- pericentral — arranged around a centre
- permittance — the act of permitting or giving consent
- perpetuance — to make perpetual.
- persian cat — a long-haired variety of the domestic cat, originally raised in Persia and Afghanistan.
- pertinacity — the quality of being pertinacious; persistence.
- pescatarian — a person whose diet is mostly vegetarian but includes fish and seafood.
- pescetarian — a person whose diet is mostly vegetarian but includes fish and seafood.
- pet scanner — a tomographic imaging device that yields visual information about the ongoing activity of the brain: positron-emitting isotopes, incorporated into biologically important compounds, are injected intravenously or administered by inhalation, and the resultant gamma radiation is sensed by detectors and converted into computer-generated images of blood flow, oxygen utilization, glucose uptake, etc.
- phonematics — phonemics.
- phonetastic — (communications) A CTI product from Callware. Phonetastic employs if-then rules and customer records to tell those receiving calls who is calling (based on ANI and DNIS) and to determine how the call should be routed, e.g. to a certain sales representative or to the general sales department; receive high-priority treatment; receive a fax-back, etc.
- phonetician — a specialist in phonetics or in some aspect of phonetics.
- phrenetical — of or relating to phrenitis
- pinacotheca — a place where works of art are displayed or stored
- pinch pleat — a narrow pleat that is usually part of a series at the top of curtains.
- pinnatisect — (of a leaf) divided in a pinnate manner.
- 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
- planimetric — the measurement of plane areas.
- 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.